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Friday Cephalopod: Future Molluscan Overlord
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Friday Cephalopod: Future Molluscan Overlord
Episode C: Yet another reminder
Let’s do commercials for the 100th entry in the thread of agony ! (Current totals: 10,935 entries with 1,110,958 comments.) Read the comments on this post…
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Episode C: Yet another reminder
I thought this wasn’t supposed to happen?
Roy Peter Clark wrote a book about language which was savaged viciously on Language Log — in other words, the poor guy was publicly ridiculed and his work rudely trashed. He couldn’t possibly have learned anything from that, could he? He has a guest post now in which he describes his reaction
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ICR surrenders in one battle
The Institute for Creation Research had been trying to get approval from the state of Texas to offer graduate degrees in science education — they failed. Now they have actually publicly admitted defeat , which is gratifying to see. So we won’t be seeing a wave of teachers with master’s degrees in science ed and absolutely no science training emerging from the state
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That didn’t take long
Already, deranged Discovery Institute shill David Klinghoffer is blaming the hostage-taking nut James Lee’s actions on Darwinism . Witness the recent examples of Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter James von Brunn, Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris, Jokela High School shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen. Historical figures who drew inspiration, if indirectly, from Darwinian theory include Charles Manson, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stalin, Josef Mengele, and of course Adolf Hitler
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That didn’t take long
Botanical Wednesday: Fungus that thinks it’s a flower
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Discovery Channel besieged
A gunman with an explosive device is holding hostages at the Discovery Channel building until they give him what he wants. What does he want? Well, he’s nuts, and his page of demands is loading very slowly , so here’s what I was able to extract: The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY: 1
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Shouldn’t someone ask the Dakotans?
BigThink has been having a Month of Dangerous Ideas , in which each day they publish a pro and con for a provocative idea, like “Tax Fat People” or “Mandatory Bible Study” (promoted to make people more moral, believe it or not), from which you’d get the impression it was mainly a month of stupid ideas.
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Canada needs your help
Prime Minister Harper has come up with a bizarre goal: he thinks so highly of the US’s Fox News that he wants to create a similar propaganda organ up North. Incredible — isn’t Canada supposed to learn from our terrible mistakes? Here’s an idea: sign this petition .
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Episode XCIX: It’s probably not lupus!
Yeesh, you’ve dragged me onto the internet to update the nagging thread again, despite the work piled up around me and the ickiness I’m feeling from all these new meds I’m soaking in. Now back to recuperating and writing
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Episode XCIX: It’s probably not lupus!