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I’m in

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Yesterday, I bemoaned the fact that I was unable to successfully become a member of the Friends of Charles Darwin, an organization with virtually no membership requirements. I’m happy to announce that I have been accepted, and should soon be on the offical rolls. Seems that the site was inundated with applicants who read this […]

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Natural non-selection

Monday, May 21, 2007

I’ve always agreed with Grouch Marx about joining clubs. As Groucho said: I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member This has always seemed like a sound rule of thumb to me, but today I thought I would make an exception, and join the Friends of Charles Darwin. Why? Well, […]

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Octopus meets shark

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Fascinating but not for the squeamish. My wife discovered this video on a blog written by a friend of my older son’s. Nothing political about it, but certainly shows how surprising nature can be. [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202&hl=en[/googlevideo]

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Right wing science

Saturday, May 5, 2007

In this morning’s Times we read about yet another fault line in the right wing terrain. On one side we have the Bible thumping creationists; on the other we have the not quite so crazies who accept that evolution is a scientifically proven fact. Not to be outdone by the fundies, however, the near rational […]

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Proving the obvious

Monday, April 30, 2007

School systems throughout our land are finding that children will enthusiastically engage in exercise if a computer tells them what to do instead of a gym teacher: Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of the gym at South Middle School […]

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