Carnivalia, and an open thread

We have a fine, meaty collection of carnivals today, and a couple of requests for submissions.

This weekend is your last chance to send in submissions for the Circus of the Spineless.

I'm also hosting Encephalon on 12 March. If you've got brains on the brain, send me links.

We may also have a special event planned for 12 March here on Pharyngula…stay tuned.

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While the conference site is down and before the new one is built, I need, for myself, a list of blog carnivals I follow, so here I am putting it here for my own reference (let me know if I am missing a delightful and useful carnival - if you manage one of them, make sure I am on your mailing list…
Write about science and get exposure - send your stuff to carnivals. Calls for submissions have been announced for Tangled Bank, Grand Rounds, Skeptic's Circle, Mendel's Garden, Bio::Blogs, Encephalon, Circus of the Spineless, I And The Bird, Philosophia Naturalis, Change Of Shift, Radiology Grand…
I got a couple more requests to drum up interest in up-and-coming carnivals. The Dharma Bums are hosting the next I and the Bird carnival, so if invertebrates aren't your bag, but highly derived tetrapods with elaborate keratinaceous external insulating coats are, send them a link. If even that isn…
It's my great pleasure to congratulate Skookumchick (Rants of a Feminist Engineer) and the world of women bloggers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) on the first anniversary of their blog carnival, Scientiae. With the theme of "renewal," I'll leave it to Skookum to…

WOO WOO WOO WOO!
UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister

OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
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File this under "responses to use when some dingbat questions the need for rationality."