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I’ve just OD’ed on irony 27 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
In yet another article about obsessed harassing fuckwit “elevatorgate”, we get an interesting revelation. In the Google doc briefly viewed by Mother Jones, elevatorgate wrote that he does not use his...
New Jersey: defender of good taste 27 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Would you believe New Jersey denied David Silverman his choice of license plates? My vanity "ATHEIST" license plate was just refused by the state. Reason: It’s offensive. #wronganswer So just the wo...
How to read a scientific paper 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
If you’ve been wondering how the pros do it, here’s a guide to dissecting a science paper. Don’t be intimidated: it’s a description for how to really take every detail of the paper apart, and it’s a ...
A strange calm descends 27 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
It’s very strange. Classes start tomorrow, and I’ve got a tough semester ahead of me with both our core cell biology course and an upper level cancer biology course…and I freakin’ know what I’m doing....
We haven’t had much Kwok ’round these parts in a while 27 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
But he has sent me a couple of email missives. Here’s one for your entertainment: he hasn’t changed a bit. Hey Myers - Speaking of kooks, you and Laden are poor judges especially since you’ve been b...
The Onion explains it all 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
The purported managing editor of CNN explains how they picked their top story in a fictitious opinion piece (which still rings very true). There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that...
Playing with virtual fossils 27 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
This is all kinds of cool: the British Geological Survey is laser scanning their fossil collection and producing an online database of high resolution photographs and digital models of British type fo...
What have I gotten myself into? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
I’ve been agreeing to interviews right and left lately — go ahead, try me, I am so easy — and I just agreed to appear on a show called Issues, Etc., Wednesday morning at 10:30 Central. It’s Lutheran ...
Magic RNA editing! 26 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
One of those wacky Intelligent Design creationists (Jonathan McLatchie, an arrogant ignoramus I’ve actually met in Scotland) has a theory, which is his, to get around that obnoxious problem of pseudog...
You should always ignore some old guy opining on women’s abilities 26 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
I had this vague impression that Dave Winer was one of the good guy pundits of the computer culture, but this column in which he asks “Why are there so few women programmers?” is gakworthy and stupid....
