March 14, 2010 at 1:56 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The US and Israel are near the top of the list in having citizens who believe in evolution — at or near the top, that is, if you turn the list upside down. In international surveys the US ranks last and Israel 4th from last among 27 countries regarding belief in the proposition that “human beings developed from earlier species of animals” being definitely or probably true (US, 45%, Israel, 54%). There’s another similarity. The US has fringe fundamentalist crazies in positions of authority (like the Texas State Board of Education) who deny evolution (and this just in: took The Enlightenment and Thomas Jefferson out of their textbooks, possibly because he was a Deist; but they put Thomas Aquinas in to make up for it!). And so does Israel. In fact Israel does the US one better, because the official is the chief scientist in Israel’s ministry of education, Gavriel [...]
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March 14, 2010 at 4:49 am · Filed under Uncategorized
A few days back, the phone rang and I stupidly answered it. I usually don’t unless I know who it is, but lately I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls from health insurance adjusters and therapists and whatever-whatever, so I’ve taken to actually answering the damn thing sometimes.
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Original post by Greg Laden none@example.com
March 14, 2010 at 4:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized
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If you don’t get a bellyful of laughs watching this new version of the Trololololo Guy, I’d be surprised. There’s just something about this meme that won’t stop the creativity of the masses. (via BuzzFeed)
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March 14, 2010 at 2:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized
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March 14, 2010 at 2:43 am · Filed under 48328
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March 14, 2010 at 1:16 am · Filed under Uncategorized
The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
Such a wonderful mix of tilt-lens camera work and time lapse technique.
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Original post by John
March 14, 2010 at 1:07 am · Filed under Uncategorized
We’ve previously featured artist Peter Gronquist’s work, namely a pimped-out wheelchair and a Pac-Man grenade. Among his other products are rifles altered to reflect various fashion labels. These have been interpreted by art critics in sophisticated, intellectual ways. But in an interview, Gronquist dismissed these explanations:
I actually came up with a ton over the years that I’ve been developing, the original being: “Wouldn’t it be funny if…?” The short list includes: our culture’s glamorization of violence, rampant consumerism, war profiteering and how people will put designer brands on literally anything and think that they are automatically awesome. I really just wanted to make something completely ridiculous. Then people gave me money for them. So I made a ton of them because I’m a whore. I find that it’s a parody of myself because I also like ridiculous things sometimes for no logical reason. I’m a victim of [...]
Original post by John Farrier
March 14, 2010 at 12:45 am · Filed under 48316
FORMATION of a memory is widely believed to leave a ‘trace’ in the brain - a fleeting pattern of electrical activity which strengthens the connections within a widely distributed network of neurons, and which re-emerges when the memory is recalled. The concept of the memory trace was first propsed nearly a century ago, but the nature of the trace, its precise location in the brain and the underlying neural mechanisms all remain elusive. A new study by researchers from University College London now shows that functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) can be used to decode individual memory traces and to predict which of three recently encoded memories is being recalled.
The new study, led by Eleanor Maguire of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, builds on earlier work which demonstrates that fMRI can be used to predict simple mental states from brain activity. Last year, Maguire and her colleagues showed that it [...]
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March 13, 2010 at 7:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Plastic in the oceans is probably a problem, but it is probably not the problem you think it is.
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