After a long confinement in a cramped metal tube, the guards stewardesses have finally released me in Melbourne.
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I have landed!
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I have landed!
The Frog Scientist
I just got my hands on a very interesting book for the younger set: it’s aimed at kids in grades 5-8, and it’s a description of the life and work of a real live scientist, someone who does both field and lab work, and studies development and the effects of environmental toxins on reproduction. The man is Tyrone Hayes at UC Berkeley, and the book is The Frog Scientist ( amzn / b&n / abe / pwll ) , by Pamela Turner. It’s excellent stuff — it humanizes the scientist and also does a very good job of letting kids see what scientists actually do in their research, and why they’re doing it
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The Frog Scientist
A hero in the Philippines
The Philippines has a problem with a rising number of AIDS cases every year, and members of the government have been promoting a sensible response: Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral has sponsored a program that distributes free condoms , for instance. You can guess who opposes prophylactics, though
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A hero in the Philippines
Hey, Floridans, you aren’t really going to vote for this jerk, are you?
Here’s a personal account of how Charlie Crist deals with atheists : Last night as I was leaving a pizzeria in Downtown St. Pete, I ran into a small group of people around Florida Governor Charlie Crist who was campaigning for a US Senate run. So, I walked over waited a moment to gain his attention and shook his hand
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Hey, Floridans, you aren’t really going to vote for this jerk, are you?
Please, Sarah Palin, go away
She’s as funny as a clown’s pratfall, but she’s also as fascinating as a head wound. I hope she’ll vanish from the public discourse, but here I am, at the same time gawking over her latest inanities. Remember how she was caught looking at really trivial notes written on her hand
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Please, Sarah Palin, go away
Episode XXVII: Rumors of my birthday are premature
I could have continued the last edition of the unstoppable thread with the hot topic of the moment — race — but thought maybe promoting another controversial subject would fill up the thread far too quickly. So the other subject people were talking about is my birthday
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Episode XXVII: Rumors of my birthday are premature
Now the climate scientists get to suffer with the framing wars
I got so sick of dreary beancounting communications ‘experts’ telling me that we need to avoid fighting creationists … because the magical drone of framing was going to make everyone happy and persuade the jebus-loving ignoramuses that evolution was good. There are signs that these parasites are moving on now — to climate science
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Now the climate scientists get to suffer with the framing wars
Polling for validation of bigotry
There was this young child at a Catholic pre-school who was kicked out because his or her parents were lesbians . Now people are protesting, because that’s not what Jesus would do (I won’t quibble over their justifications — Jesus probably would have told the mob to stone the perverted parents to death — it’s OK that they’re doing the right thing for the wrong reasons). And the local newspaper runs a poll.
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Polling for validation of bigotry
Dreher is really a piece of work
Jerry Coyne has unearthed a few maggoty tidbits about Rod Dreher , the Templeton director of communications. It seems the Templeton Foundation has been padding his credentials a bit, claiming that he is a 7-time nominee for a Pulitzer Prize
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Jerry Coyne gets email
Coyne was quoted in this article on homeschooling , which brought in an unexpected surge of email , including some rather nasty words from the Christians . This doesn’t surprise me at all; criticizing religion, especially the more far-out beliefs that are clearly unsupportable and in contradiction to all of the evidence, is always a reliable trigger to start some kooks spewing. Homeschooling is another trigger
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Jerry Coyne gets email