myers on altenbergand mazur this post from pharyngula is revealing of the tactics of the darwinians insult the critics to the limit invent slanderous debunkings without substance and pile on the hate hate hate. enough is enough after awhile especially with all the sanctimonious science piety we get from scienceblogs. these tactics really show the emptiness of the darwinists position all they can ...
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earlier this year researchers from the radboud university in nijmegen published a paper that explored why people make wrong decisions when choices are complex for example when buying a house or choosing a vacation. according to the authors we overthink things. for instance when we buy a house we might attach a higher weight to a large room grandmother can sleep there when she stays over than to a ...
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esta uma veggie tale a que cheguei via pharyngula. grandpa john na realidade john clayton devotase neste e em outros vdeos a demonstrar cientificamente que deus existe e a bblia a sua palavra. confesso que a electrocusso do pickle no me convenceu embora me tenha divertido tanto que resolvi procurar mais provas. achei especialmente delicioso o vdeo miracle cures and electric fields onde clayton m...
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okay with stage 13 on the books where are we with the doping cases well first we had manuel beltrn nailed for erythropoietin epo his team liquigas pulled him out of the tour and suspended him. next up was moiss dueas as the second rider with a nonnegative test for epo. number three is riccardo ricc also nailed on suspicion of epo. here is where it gets interesting. read the rest of this post r...
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cop busts guy for taking his pic its illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer... if you dont give it to me youre going to jail bernardo sez i read in dispatches from the culture wars about scott conover who was arrested for taking a picture of a policeman during a traffic stop. conover quotes the police officer as saying ... you took a picture of me. its illegal to take a picture...
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coturnix obligatory reading of the day brought me to this interesting essay on open science. i think it catches most of the most important idiosyncracies of the modern science business and offers some very promising avenues for change.however i think it treats one crucial important point only in passing there currently are too many incentives not to share ideas and critical comments with the rest ...
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quick links from the past week in mind and brain news one i missed before the new york review of books has an extended and thoughtful review of a stack of cognitive science books and neurophilosophy has a great commentary. the new york times reports on the challenges of 600asession patients. interesting to note its all described in terms of psychoanalysis a therapy strangely ghettoed among t...
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nonnewtonian fluid on subwoofer proof that oobleck still has a postelementary school allure. adithread nanoengraving for all blacks nanoengraving new and improved for the psychotic football fan. with apologies to ... david brooks science columns in the nyt have enraged some in the blogosphere. the limits of neurotalkthe most thoughtful analysis of neurotalk yet. black and white twins perils of co...
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i have seen the best campaign for office......
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neurophilosophy has found a fascinating black and white tv documentary on mexican hallucinogenic mushrooms from 1961 where the presenter samples some of the psilocybincontaining fungus and reports the effects during the trip. in the january 4th 1961 episode of one step beyond director and presenter john newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions to investigate whether or not the hal...
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right now im looking out my window to see the spreading pall of burning stupid rising over channel 7s tower in southfield. and the stupid isnt just for steve wilson anymore. what reporter carolyn clifford lacks in adiposity she easily makes up for in credulity. her investigative report tonight on the hpv vaccine gardasil is another example of embarrassingly bad health reporting. a few preliminarie...
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this video was made using 64 rotating lasers no cameras and some cool data visualization programs. via the frontal cortex. google code has more on how the video was made.......
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like many other blogsawe here at biomedicine on displayahave a long list ofapotentially useful life science and healthmedical blog linksall those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base foraour web presence. it would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud like a tag cloud or a category cloud. so far i havent seen oneabut last night whenai was playingawi...
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one of the great myths of the mercury militia that movement that insists no matter what the actual scientific evidence shows that it absolutely positively has to be mercury from vaccines that cause autism is the myth of the poor excretor. in other words the claim is that autistic children are somehow poor excretors of mercury thus making the mercury that used to be in vaccines more toxic to them s...
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the giants shoulders tgs is a new blog carnival in which scientists select a classic paper from their field and write a short piece about its contribution and influence. for those who have never heard the phrase a blog carnival is a collection of links to web items on a particular topic that has no one home but is hosted at a variety of different blogs in turn. tgs is the brainchild of someone who...
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apparently the desire to ridicule the idea of revereing a piece of unlevened bread is a threat to the republican national convention. my favorite quotes from the article above i just felt security at the republican national convention ought to look at him and his followers foley told cna in a phone interview on wednesday morning. he reported that he had not received an update about h...
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fly by night delightful hand drawn animation of back porch bugs on a summer night. darwinist insightful buzz in the blogosphere about olivia judsons request to move past darwinism. bees enlisted to attack crows in tokyo why cant americans think of conservation mechanisms like this . country the city version farms in the sky gain new interest penthouse or penned pigs crackergate the curious crack...
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so back in april gg at skulls in the stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline and then write a blog post about it.a the results are in and theyre awesome.a not just fascinating this is a potential time suck with none of the guilt i feel wasting time with old sports clips on youtube i mean its reading about science.a im...
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if you doubt any claim made about manmade global warming jennifer jacquet thinks you are a miscreant and on par with those who deny that smoking causes cancer. she also draws the conclusion that since one denialist sports the same upperlip fuzz as snidely p. whiplash the rest of them are somewhere twirling their moustaches and up to now good. well these kinds of childish insults are common by ...
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pz myers has gone and gotten himself embroiled in another one of those imbroglios. for those of you who dont trouble to read any other blogs the story began with the report of a student in florida who smuggled a communion wafer the body of christ to catholics out of mass. this led to something of an overreaction on the part of some local believers who referred to the stunt as a hate crime and ...
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the world is going to hell in a handbasket. thats what youd think if you consider all the bad news coming at you from all quarters inflation the rising price of food and fuel the commies taking their ball and going home you wish the possibility of a disappointing monsoons sundry acts of terrorism and so on. comic relief is what one sorely needs to lighten the doom and gloom. so heres some news of...
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the first edition of the giants shoulders is now up at a blog around the clock. being the first theres a huge number of entries to the carnival so check it out the next edition will happen at the lay scientist with entries due august 15th. lets keep it going......
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there have been some excellent articles recently on the psychology of time but one of the most fascinating is from developing intelligence who looks at a new study that suggests our concept of time becomes nonlinear as we look into the future in other words not all futures are equal. the research led by psychologist gal zauberman riffs on an effect called hyperbolic discounting where immediate r...
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whats a little sodium dichromate anyway so its a known human carcinogen and can do a lot of other nasty things. no big deal. not for iraq war contractor kbr anyway. at the time kbr was a subsidiary of defense secretary rumsfelds vice president dick cheneys former company halliburton. so when they were given a lucrative contract to clean up and safeguard iraqi oilfields after the bush mission was a...
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