The new design of the $5 dollar bill has certainly taken a beating over its rather garish design. (here, here and here). While a significant portion of my job is designing software applications (web apps which have a unique challenge) and end-user usability is my primary concern. I have to agree with most “design-conscious” people that [...]
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I know this isn’t recent news, Flores wrist bones and their impact on Hominin evolution, but I wanted to make a point to say that I have been lurking on kottke.org lately and find it fascinating. It is a very cool site that finds some of what appears to be the most random things on the ‘net [...]
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I have to apologize for woefully neglecting my blog… work has been kicking my butt lately. I’ve been home all of 6 days over the past 3 weeks. I am going to pretend however that everyone is waiting breathlessly for me post something…
Language Log has a post about press releases and science journalism. Here’s a great [...]
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Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is a contributor to DisInfo’s anthology, Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion.
Check out a couple of essays about the atheism of Beethoven and Richard Rodgers.
By the way, I love this image from ffrf.org’s website.
Technorati Atheism
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Recent research indicates that one contributing factor to the mysterious colony-collapse disorder (CCD) of bee populations may be a virus (IAPV and first identified in Israel) spread from Australia.
This is a great article because it details the painstaking process that many researchers are going through in order to identify the cause (or causes) for CCD.
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I am going to start by saying I am neither a doctor nor biologist so there may be some other more specific problems with the following article but I ain’t smrt enough to pick up on it.
Apparently the folks at TheParanormalReport.com are reporting, Morgellons - New Disease, or Man-Made Weapon of Terror?, [queue scary music, [...]
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The Continuum of Humanist Education is offering free courses on humanism, very cool. I’d be curious what religious believers would have to say after taking this course.
I found this link via the FriendlyAtheist. He always gets to these before I do, damn you Hemant!!! Ok fine you provide a valuable service and I’m just slow…
… and now I [...]
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Richard Dawkins reviews Christopher Hitchens’ book god is not great
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I wish I could read the full article on this, Could Huntington’s mutation make people healthier?, but New Scientist has this one gated. sigh…
In case you don’t know what Huntington’s disease is (and I didn’t) here’s the wiki
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I’m not one to be too politically correct but “It’s No Delusion” as the title to an article about the surprising results of research regarding schizophrenia seems a bit insensitive to me. If Scientific American keeps it up they might start making people think they are being laughed at or persecuted…. sorry.
Anyway, the research seems to support a natural selection for [...]
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