clock | October 17, 2006As the mid-term elections are approaching and the new polls are coming out every day, you may want to refresh your poll-reading skills as well as your general statistics knowledge, plus send your not-as-well-informed readers to learn about it at Echidne's place: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
When Part 5 (and beyond, if any), gets posted I will link it here in this post for future reference.
Update: Here is Part 5
clock | October 17, 2006
John Ettorre is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 16, 2006In response to wonderful fisking by Ed of a really silly Creationist screed, Archy comments on the use of the terms "Darwinist" by Creationists, as a marketing tool to paint biologists as dogmatic, while at the same time avoding the term "creationist" in order to paint themselves as scientific:
Their use of the terms "Darwinism" and "Darwinist" aren't the result sheer ignorance; it's a carefully thought out propaganda strategy. An "-ism" implies an ideology or a dogma. It moves evolution out of science and into the land of politics or religion: though which is based on faith or blind…
clock | October 16, 2006If you are still under the influence of ConvergeSouth and cannot wait a whole year for the next one, or if you have missed this weekend and need your fill soon, perhaps you can make it to Atlanta in February.
clock | October 16, 2006Read these two one after another:
This is a new angle and thinking outside the box: Sara's Sunday Rant: The Culture of Planning, Part I
Lance has a nice rant on politics and education: Yahoo culture
clock | October 16, 2006If you happen to be in the Triangle tonight and have some free time, come to the blogger meetup at 7pm at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
clock | October 16, 2006Revere, Janet and Mike have updates on the dire situation of the Tripoli Six as well as excellent suggestions for what YOU can do about it. Please spread the word by blogging and e-mail.
clock | October 16, 2006Nothing too complicated today, but something you should all know (from March 13, 2006).
I have mentioned this in my very first post here: in a natural state, humans do not sleep a long consecutive bout throughout the night. The natural condition is bimodal - two bouts of sleep interrupted by a short episode of waking in the middle of the night.
In today's New York Times, there is an article about this:
Sleep Disorder? Wake Up and Smell the Savanna by RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.:
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Many patients tell me they have a sleep problem because they wake up in the middle of…
clock | October 16, 2006Yesterday, I spent a wonderful day in Greensboro, most of it on the NC A&T campus attending ConvergeSouth. I am still trying to recover from the event, so this post is just a big Hello to everyone I met there and another post about buidling online communities inspired by the meeting will follow soon.
First, a big Thank You to the organizers of the event, Sue Polinsky, Ed Cone, Ben Hwang and JW. Great to see you all again! Great job!
Last year, I came in knowing only a few people. Two days later, I knew many more. This year, it was only one day long so it was hard to catch up with…
clock | October 16, 2006
Garrett French is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 15, 2006Good article by Michael Pollan in today's NYT Magazine: The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
clock | October 15, 2006Mendel's Garden #8: Harvest Edition is up on Discoverying Biology in a Digital World.
clock | October 15, 2006
Anton Zuiker is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | October 14, 2006A beautifully written edition of Tar Heel Tavern is up on Poetic Acceptance.
clock | October 14, 2006John bemoans the state of science journalism, with some added history of the Atlantis hypothesis.
clock | October 14, 2006Effects Of New Sleep Medication Appear Unlikely To Have Potential For Abuse Or Cognitive Impairment:
In a study of 14 adults with histories of sedative abuse, the newly approved sleep medication ramelteon does not appear to have effects that indicate potential for abuse or motor or cognitive impairment, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Mathematics Provides Answer To Airport Security Puzzle:
High flyers will enjoy faster and safer travel in the future, thanks to mathematicians at the University of Manchester and…
clock | October 14, 2006I love it when David Neiwert takes a break from Minutemen and White Pride and writes a post about killer whales. In this latest such post, he ties the concern for his favourite animals to Republican War On Science and the upcoming mid-term elections.