Science
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Skepchick Quickies 4.1
Top 10 Creationist discoveries of all time– It’s about time that the hard work of creation scientists is recognized. Number 7 is my personal favorite. Ben Stein is right– Darwinism does lead to antisemitism. How could we have been so blind? Our true ancestors– Not monkeys, people, amphisbaenians. Don’t high-hat the amphisbaenian! Christ appears in a cheese curl– The end…
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Laughter makes clowns of us all
Today, Nature carries this article about new research from Prof Richard Wiseman. From the article: “New research has revealed that the red nose and face-painting traditionally associated with clowns may have its origins in science. Psychologist Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom used highly sensitive infrared imagers to observe people as they laughed at jokes…
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The hidden dangers of pseudoscience
Last week, a woman in india was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob for being a witch. When this headline first came up on my blackberry, I thought ‘oh great, another story about ignorance causing people to claim some poor woman is a witch.’ But when I read it in detail, the story has more to it.…
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Ninetyeast: An Ocean Adventure– Part I
I am as busy as ever these days with my coursework and research, but I though I’d make a little time for skepchick today. I’m working 10-14 hour days now running my samples on the mass spectrometer. This is how the life of a research geologist works– sometimes you’re off exploring the world, other times you’re working ridiculous hours in…
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We Got Game Theory
I don’t believe in synchronicity, but game theory keeps popping up in my regular reading, in seemingly unrelated sources. First, Amanda posted a link to a blog about game theory in the Quickies. Then, Michael Shermer wrote an interesting article about game theory in sports in Scientific American. And then NPR ran an article about how game theory just may…
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Dawkins, DNA, and blasphemy
ETA: We pre-empt your irregularly scheduled random video viewing to bring you the following masterpiece that was in the comments to Rebecca’s post. Beware the believers! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw] And please still do check out the following videos behind the cut. Here’s a nifty video on DNA wrapping and replication that I came across on Revealed. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NHcQesYl8] This next video is so…
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Audio of PZ Myers Crashing the Expelled Teleconference
Yesterday, the PR company hired by Expelled invited me (among many other members of the press and nontraditional media) to participate in a teleconference today with Ben Stein, Mark Malkis, and the other film makers. I was pretty annoyed at the start, since they decided that instead of an open press conference with, you know, free speech, people had to…
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Snake oil perfume for horny men and women
An amusing email arrived for me earlier this week: Hello, My name is Margot and I’m the webmaster of www.best-pheromones.com. I wanted to know if you could do a paid UNBIASED review of our product/site. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you, Margot [name and email removed] I was especially intrigued by the capitalization of “unbiased.†After…
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