- Linux vs. genome in network challenge – From Steve.
- Times of India: Chicken bones and black magic cannot harm you – By the president of the Indian Rationalist Association: “Let me start with a small piece of advice, just in case. If one fine day you get to know that some tantrik, generously paid by your arch enemy to kill you, has managed to lay his hands on a used handkerchief or a strand of hair or yours, don’t panic.”
- It’s the cognitive bias song! – From David.
- Russian president asked to investigate alien claims – “A Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate
claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a
spaceship.” From Zoltan.
Was he a cosmonaut in the Apollo-Soyuz project?
Their primary concern is whether or not Ilyumzhinov revealed state secrets to the aliens. Does this mean that the Russians have been hiring aliens to do covert work for them, and therefore, they suspect that their political and economic rivals are doing the same?
I understand that the aliens would need to fund their expeditions somehow, and as far as I can tell, anal probing has not been lucrative for them.
I loved the bias song. There should be more science set to music. My 4 year old learns tons from TMBG and the Biscuit Brothers…I want more for our age group too!
@Skepotter:
Do you realize how many people Intergalactic Anal-Probing employs?
@Skepotter: Perhaps anal probing tourism is a big thing among the alien hordes and there’s a lucrative business for aliens who want to visit earth and get in some probing while on vacation.
Slightly OT (if such a thing can be on a “quickies” post) and I hope this isn’t taken as spam, but I’m excited that my “Science vs. Pseudoscience” class was approved for next fall. Now I just have to get students to sign up for it….
@Bacfarc: If “OT” comments weren’t allowed, especially in “Quickies” posts … I’d have been booted a long time ago. :)
Congratulations and good luck!
That ‘Linux vs E.Coli‘ article was pretty interesting. It just goes to show how different things look when there’s a designer monitoring things and coaxing stuff into a specific direction …
@marilove, thanks! I’m really excited about the class, even though my spare-time reading has now been taken over by texts about creationists, psychics, and racists posing as social scientists.
Man I wish I got a science vs psuedoscience class…just about everyone I know needs it.