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What Is Scientology? James Spader explains Scientology in an episode of of the television program, Boston Legal.
Clock Quotes Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. - Dean Acheson...
PZ Myers and Michael Ruse given Stamp of Approval by YNH Blog The You're Not Helping Blog, a blog written by a consortium of well known bloggers with the assigned task of determining which bloggers, and which blog posts, "help" vs. "not help" has certified certain things said by PZ Myres and Michael Ruse as .... A-OK!...
A dying art: hand-painted billboards Up There is a short documentary about the sign painters who still work in cities like New York, hand-applying mural-style ads to brick walls. In this short preview clip, you see an accelerated version of a series of murals...
Crime does not pay I showed you that video of an octopus stealing a camera, now here's one of an octopus trying to snatch a crescent wrench. Unfortunately, he is punished horribly. Man, cuttlefish are brutal. (embed code is buggy — here's a link...
Late update on the Global Atheist Conference It's a month gone, but now ABC has a summary (and you can go straight to the MP3 here)....
Greg Laden just can't help himself ..In Broadbrush artistry Somebody is wrong on the Internet, and apparently, it's Greg Laden. "...Greg. Don't get us wrong, we want to see the Pope (and priests) answer for what they've done,..." We just want it done OUR way, and not your way. So please sit down and...
Best posts on Media, (Science) Journalism and Blogging at A Blog Around The Clock As this blog is getting close to having 10,000 posts, and my Archives/Categories are getting unweildy (and pretty useless), I need to get some of the collections of useful posts together, mainly to make it easier for myself to find...
The True Meaning of the Unpronounceable Volcano that Ate Europe Whitney Houston took a car ferry from Britain to Ireland to attend her concert, rather than flying. A very large magical snake protects a canyon in south Africa. These things are connected a lot more closely than you might think.
For the millionth time: bloggers vs. journalists is over! Science in the Media: Rude or Ailing Health? was a panel that recently convened in the UK, in a response to a recent UK government report on science in the media . You can watch the video of the entire...
Drunk History - Nikola Tesla (video) I wonder how much more (and more accurate) detail this guy would get when sober. And how much less most other people would be able to say when sober.......
A sea monster poster for the 9th European Symposium of Cryptozoology This weekend (17th-18th April 2010), the 9th European Symposium of Cryptozoology is being held at Engreux in the south of Belgium. I meant to attend and give a talk, but had to cancel for financial reasons. And it's just...
Not just the genome New in vitro fertilization technology is making it possible for someone to have two moms--one that provides the genome in the nucleus of the cell, and one that provides the rest of the egg cell, including the mitochondria. Since all...
Scientia Pro Publica -- It's Almost Here! Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival devoted to sharing the best science, medical, environment and nature blog writing with the public, and it is seeking submissions and hosts!
The Great Lettuce Famine Apparently we're all going to die because The Spooky Face means all that healthy foreign-grown lettuce and fine green beans can't be flown in. Or so said the radio this morning; I wasn't paying too close attention because I was...
Pope, in incredible act of insensitivity, mixes up roles of victim and perp In his first foreign trip since sex abuse scandals in Europe and the US broke, Pope Benedict has said the Church has been "wounded by its sins". msnbc...
Are E-Readers Value-Added? A recent paper from the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy came across my desktop yesterday called e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of Readers. In it, Lotta C. Larson describes her observation of 10 fifth-grade students...
Unintended Consequences Do the post-docs and their supporters who are agitating for a dramatic 6% increase in the NIH post-doctoral fellowship stipend levels understand that--because this scale is frequently applied by institutions to post-doc salaries supported by research grants and because research...
Can you say "Eyjafjallajokull"? Neither can I... Even if I can't say it, the volcano Eyjafjallajokull is great to illustrate just how ludicrous the "Volcanoes emit more CO2" argument is. Courtesy of Information Is Beautiful, here is a very telling graphic....
Lituites lituus This is one example of an aquatic animal that went extinct during Noah's "Great Flood" -- can anyone explain how a benthic marine invertebrate went extinct during a flood?
Time, nature, people, news: a time lapse video A recommendation from reader Calle: a time-lapse view of a Rocky Mountains park over a year, accompanied by sound bytes from the news. Occasionally pretty eerie. News, Weather & Sports - a year long time-lapse documents the seasonal changes...
Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial Journalist Michael Specter makes a erudite and impassioned plea for reason and critical thinking in this video from TED. It's a fantastic speech, and huge tracts could have sprung from my own lips (and probably have done on one occassion...
Hogwarts, Watch Out Some bonus cute for your weekend: Here's SteelyKid apparently deciding to be a wizard. She can wave a stick and babble in what might as well be fake Latin with the best of them-- don't try to tell her she...
A quick note on thawing ice caps and volcanism Could increased volcanism and deglaciation be linked? It is hard to tell, but fascinating to ponder.
Writing to publish vs. writing to be read Why do you write when you don't have to?
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