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Archive for June, 2008

Crazy week… fun videos

Posted in Dawkins, Doctor Who, science, tv on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Phew! It’s been a hectic week. With my collaborators in town, work was pretty crazy, but very productive. It got me thinking harder about How Science Works and I’m sure I’ll be writing about that shortly. I need to actually GET to working this morning, but first some entertainment…
I got to [...]

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How will we make fun of the bullshit now?

Posted in atheist, humor, icon on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We’ll miss George Carlin, the most irreverently brilliant bastard of our time.

And this and this and this and this!

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Sicky in Green Bank: Updates on Darwin, napping, and Christian presidents

Posted in astronomy, evolution, politics, religion, science on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Greetings the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank! I’m out here for a week working hard with collaborators on our awesome low-frequency radio astronomy project, when I fall victim to some weird cold virus. I lost a whole day in bed, flipping between the Sci-Fi Channel and Discovery Channel when I wasn’t [...]

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The Naked Truth

Posted in airlines, security on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The TSA is expanding the use of millimeter wave and x-ray machines in airports as a security measure. As if we didn’t feel violated enough taking off sweatshirts, belts, shoes, etc. Here is the story I first saw, with a disturbing test-image and a healthy amount of dissent in the comments section. [...]

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Gay Marriage on NPR

Posted in civil rights, gay marriage on June 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Same-sex couples in California can finally get married today, right at the height of wedding season! NPR ran a story on the conflict over gay rights as these marriages are taking place. And I can’t help but feel torn. I believe totally and absolutely that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same [...]

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Questions about Theology

Posted in childhood, religion, science on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I was thinking this morning about religion, I’m not sure why I was thinking so such about it. It may have to do with the fact that I was at a covenant ceremony (read: non-wedding) at a church yesterday, but it was a fun, open, fantastic ceremony in a Unitarian Universalist church… so a [...]

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Fark will soon need a "Louisiana" tag…

Posted in Sagan, creationism, education, science on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The children of Louisiana may now be deprived of a sound scientific education. The creationists are at it again. When ID was struck down in Dover, they shifted their focus to “academic freedom” and “teaching the controversy.” That is, they take their own personal disagreement with certain sound science, such as evolution [...]

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Science is Pretty

Posted in astronomy, picture, skepchicks on June 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »

From the upcoming Skepchicks calendar…

Pretty! If any of my friends want to order Skepdudes for me, feel free

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It’s like going to the zoo!

Posted in animals, cute, fun on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Almost…
I love my coworkers and their amazing links. You can watch a live feed of a momma lion and her 10 day old (as of today) cubs in a zoo from a Norwegian website. We caught bath time and feeding this morning… they are so cute!!

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Ghost Hunters

Posted in ghost hunters, rant, skeptic, tv on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I finally sat down to watch part of an episode of the SciFi Channel’s Ghost Hunters. I had dismissed it as silly and not yet bothered, but thought that it might be beneficial to give it a shot. Okay, now I tried to be fair, I put that out of my mind [...]

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