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bushwells | December 19, 2006From the Despair.com do-it-yourself motivational poster generator, here's a follow-on to the "Harsh Criticism: Help or Hindrance?" Ask a Science Blogger query.
Thanks to my expatriate physicist friend, "Ludwig 'The Swinger' Boltzmann", for allowing me to use his "game face" for this.
bushwells | December 12, 2006I don't care if what kind of mono-, pan-, or a-theist you are. This here is funny.
Thanks to my best friend, who originally hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, for calling my attention to boymongoose's new video.
bushwells | December 4, 2006A follow-on to Kevin's Krisped Kringle:
See Tim Kreider's "The Pain" in our links to the left (Humor category); the original is in the archives, Dec. 21, 2005.
bushwells | November 14, 2006...according to the Most Great Prophet of Pain, Tim Krieder.
Go to the Pain archives via the link above to...
October 4, 2006 - Contributions of the World's Religions (Part I): Christianity for wholesome TV programming and burning witches and Islam for angry chanting and those excellent bean pies.
October 18, 2006 - Contributions of the World's Religions (Part II): Judaism for pastrami and unsurpassed fashion sense.
November 1, 2006 - Contributions of the World's Religions (Part IV): Hinduism for the most f*cked up pantheon since the Legion of Doom.
November 8, 2006 - Contributions of the…
jfiore | November 12, 2006I caught Richard Dawkins on C-SPAN2's BookTV last night. This was a video of his talk at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. He read a few passages from his newest book, The God Delusion, and then proceeded to take questions from the audience. Dawkins was his usual erudite self, and as Lynchburg is also the home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, he tackled a number of questions from LU faculty and students. The result was both educational and entertaining. I don't think I can hear the phrase "I am a biology student at Liberty University" now without…
bushwells | October 18, 2006I, like, really want to be one of the cool kids here on Science Blogs so I am reading The God Delusion by that Oxford don Dawkins. I ventured into what passes as campus town here in Einsteinville, and bought the last copy on the shelf at a proudly independent and somewhat self-congratulatory bookstore. After reading Dawkins' thesis that religion should not be accorded special respect, I remembered my stash of old National Lampoons (circa 1972-1977ish) mouldering away in the basement. Those NatLamPoo boys respected nothing, and I vaguely recalled that they certainly did not spare religion…
bushwells | October 10, 2006Chimpanzees and humans were given the spotlight in "What Makes Us Different," the cover story in last week's Time Magazine (Oct. 9th). It's not a bad piece for the masses, but I anticipate a few "I ain't descended from no monkey" letters to the editor will appear. Although we at the Chimp Refuge appreciate DNA homology and the intricacies of gene regulation just as much as the next monkey, the striking evidence gleaned from field observations is equally compelling.
Today in Einsteinville NJ, the matriarch of the Bushwell troop was spotted food gathering with one of the young males of…
jfiore | October 3, 2006This weekend, October 6-8, San Francisco will be the site of the 29th annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Among the activities will be talks by Sam Harris (The End of Faith) and Dr. Richard Sloan (Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine). Julia Sweeney, of Saturday Night Live fame, will receive the "Emperor Has No Clothes" award and will also be performing "Letting Go of God", her one-woman show described as a "beautiful loss of faith story". One thing I love about the FFRF is that in spite of the serious nature of their work (frequently involved in…
jfiore | September 9, 2006Well, well, we seem to have a bit of war, a tussle if you will, concerning who claims the mantle of most nerdy-worthy sci-blogger. After taking the test and giving it a bit of thought, I have come to the conclusion that the test is faulty (one might even argue that it is a Tower of Fawlty-ness).
I know, some would say that I am merely disgruntled after scoring a measly mid 70. That's an obvious argument to make, but in spite of my apparent "disgruntledness", even had I scored triple digits and therefore been fully gruntled by the result, I would still claim that the test is a less than…
bushwells | September 8, 2006
Worship me, fools.
Really, there was no hope for me. My path to nerdocity was shaped by older siblings: my late sister who was a junior high school math and science teacher (originally wanted to be an engineer, but in the late 50's/early 60's, this wasn't exactly encouraged) and my brother who is a physicist. At age 6, I played chess with my brother who was a member of the high school chess team (if that doesn't say "Kick me," I don't know what does), and poured over my sister's college biology textbooks. I waxed poetic on the various species of dinosaurs in my first grade class circa…
bushwells | August 22, 2006A pant-hoot of appreciation goes out to United Kingdom bonobo, grimupnorth, for passing this along.
Adam Kay is a junior doctor from the UK who passes his limited spare time by writing songs, including one about a new wonder-drug called Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin.
He's built up a cult following, and he's currently selling out at the Edinburgh festival.
There are some clips from the songs on this site:
The Friday Project ("Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin" contained therein - Doc Bushwell)
He gives all proceeds from his album sales to a cancer charity.
See what you think.
Adam Kay has a…