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Darwin Day 2010 at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University’s Department of Biological Sciences and Law School are jointly sponsoring a panel discussion on February 19th. Click through for details.
Medical journal fully retracts 1998 study linking MMR vaccine to autism
CNN:
Medical journal Lancet fully retracts 1998 study linking MMR vaccine to autism, citing “incorrect” elements of research.
Penn Jillette on paranormal phenomena
Paranormal phenomena? I don’t believe in it. The word “paranormal” itself means it doesn’t happen. When you say something’s “supernatural” or “paranormal” it means the person saying it doesn’t believe in it. If it really happens, it’s “normal” and it’s “natural.” Anything that’s real is “normal” and “natural.” When someone says “paranormal” or “supernatural” they’ve [...]
Rare New Year’s Eve ‘blue Moon’? Really?
The Associated Press: Rare New Year’s Eve ‘blue moon’ to ring in 2010:
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year’s Eve.
Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month.
In fact, [...]
American Museum of Natural History: The Known Universe
This film shows the known universe as mapped through astronomical observations.
Every satellite, moon, planet, star and galaxy is represented to scale and in its correct, measured location according to the best scientific research to-date.
The data is maintained and curated by research astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History as the Digital Universe Atlas.
Impressive. [...]
National Institutes of Health approves new stem cell lines for researchers
The action followed President Obama’s decision in March to expand the number of such cell lines beyond those available under a policy set by President George W. Bush, which permitted research to begin only with lines already available on Aug. 9, 2001.
Bravo. Science is a good thing.
Also posted in Government / Law, Health / Medicine, Politics
Tagged nih, research, stem cells
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150 years of natural selection… well, you know what I mean
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published 150 years ago today.
Darwin goes digital: Rare drafts go online
The Darwin Manuscripts Project has digitized not only drafts of the seminal “On the Origin of Species”, but also notebooks and scientific writings from the time Darwin spent on the HMS Beagle, among other writings.
Also posted in Books, Education, History, Internet
Tagged darwin, evolution, interthingy
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Man walks on Moon +40 years
In case you hadn’t noticed by all the Apollo and Apollo 11 programs on television the past several days, today marks the 40th anniversary of man walking on the Moon for the first time.
Also posted in History, Space
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Atheism is not a religion
Truly excellent piece at Skeptico:
This is a refrain I’m hearing a lot from religious apologists – atheism is a religion. Also its equally fallacious siblings, science is a religion and evolution is a religion. It’s a sign of their desperation that the best argument they have is not that atheism is wrong, or that god [...]
Also posted in Atheism, Religion, Skepticism / Rational-Critical Thought, Social Commentary
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Painting the Moon
Nice profile of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean in the paper of record.
Also posted in Arts, History, Space
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Who knew? Brad Pitt really “gets” it
The Perplexed Observer last week linked to two YouTube clips of Brad Pitt appearing on Bill Maher’s Real Time. I just got the chance to view the clips and must say I’m completely impressed. Brad Pitt truly “gets” it. In response to Maher’s question “What is it about religion you don’t like?”, Pitt succinctly stated:
You [...]