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If you’re reading these words, you can thank science. Today’s society is flush with examples of how the scientific method pays off, from that ordinary pain medicine sitting in your cabinet to the big ole internet to futuristic vehicles whiz down the highway. For science lovers, it’s a mystery why so many students have to be goaded, coaxed and pushed into studying it. Especially when their lives are surrounded by it (even M&Ms in a candy jar can become science).

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The Origin Of Species: The Musical

Delight Through Logical Misery

The curtains go up. On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859 by Charles Darwin is considered (correctly I would argue) to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its original full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life which was later changed around 1872 to the shorter, The Origin of Species. It was perhaps felt that “the preservation of favoured races” sounded dubiously racist when in fact this wasn’t what the title was referring to at all. Of course the last thing anybody would do is falsely co-opt evolutionary theory to promote their own despicable and prejudice agenda. Right? Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory of natural selection. I am aware of the excellent work of Alfred Russell Wallace and you should definitely watch Bill Bailey’s brilliant TV series on the topic. However I’ve probably got enough work on my hands tenuously claiming that one set of origin

Guest Post: Why I’m Through with Organic Farming

Random Rationality

Following on from my last guest post, The Insanity of Biotech by biochemist Paul Little, Mike Bendzela is the author of this guest post. These guest posts have been tangentially exploring similar subjects I have in my book, but in different directions; and this post explores organic farming. In S3: Science, Statistics and Skepticism, I lightheartedly tackle the naturalistic fallacy and use some bad (and funny) statistics that purposefully confuse correlation with causation, intending to teach a lesson. As I was writing the book, Mike Bendzela reached out to me with his organic story that sprouts off from that Correlation chapter, and it is a supremely informative read. (A bit long, well worth it, and you’re used to long articles from me anyway.) Why I’m Through with Organic Farming by Mike Bendzela of Dow Farm Enterprise “It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.” - Jesus of Nazareth For twenty-five

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Ethiopia, Immortal, Civ V

King of a Thousand Worlds

My second Immortal victory, and with a Civ that I’ve been wanting to use for such a long time. This was an odd one, because Ethiopia look like they’re set up for a Cultural Victory, with a UA and UU that lean towards being small and defensive, and a UB that replaces the monument. Opinions about Ethiopia from a lot of people, however, suggest that this isn’t really too relevant, since a larger empire allows for more spamming of that lovely, lovely Stele, and there’s no downside to being larger, simply a bonus to being smaller. So this game took a direction of Liberty social policies and a Science Victory. The choke point, and Chinese declaration of War I started on an area of a continent that felt like a lonely island, and it wasn’t for a while that I discovered the connection to the rest of the landmass. Realising the opportunity that this presented, I picked up Liberty and rushed to colonise my area and planned to hold it via a chokepoint in the north, wi

Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made our World edited by Randy Alfred

Books Old, Books New

Wired Magazine has a column called This Day in Tech. This book is a collection from these that covers all 366 days of the year. In these nice short one- to two- page synopses of important tech events were fun and informative. The best part is that they don’t require any significant science knowledge to be able to learn from them. I had lots of fun reading these!

Photo Friday with Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery

Rudayna Bahubeshi

Published in the Art & Science Journal on May 24, 2013 By superimposing copies of her models’ faces made into origami on their original portraits, Alma Haser creates interesting, although unsettling, images. The London artist creates these cubist-like images by printing multiple copies of her subject’s face, making them into origami, and then shooting the original photograph with the origami placed on top. This method allows Haser to bring her photography into another dimension. She is not only capturing or representing her models, but completely recreating them. Although in the artist’s statement Haser never explicitly describes the play on words and relationship between “cosmic surgery” and “cosmetic surgery,” the viewer can imagine a future dystopia where manipulation and ideals of beauty, now unrecognizable to us, could exist. She writes, ” There is something quite alien about the manipulated faces, as if they belong to some futu

The Son and the Moon pt.2

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Orchids can be kind of a tease

Tienlon Ho

The first female entomologist: Maria Sibylla Merian

Katatrepsis

Study of a Drakë Akhekhü

Primitive Tool

An Atheist’s Rhetorical Question Reveals His Uncertainty

A. Roy King

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime – $425

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Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of crime. In The Anatomy of Violence, Raine dissects the criminal mind with a fascinating, readable, and far-reaching scientific journey into the body of evidence that reveals the brain to be a key culprit in crime causation. Raine documents from genetic research that the seeds of sin are sown early in life, giving rise to abnormal physiological functioning that cultivates crime. Drawing on classical case studies of well-known killers in history—including Richard Speck, Ted Kaczynski, and Henry Lee Lucas—Raine illustrates how impairments to brain areas controlling our ability to experience fear, make good decisions, and feel guilt predispose us to violence. He contends th

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Off-Road Bike Paths Needed In Transportation Planning “Bible”

Meter Madness

Off-Road Bike Paths Needed In Transportation Planning “Bible” (via Planetsave) Making the case for off-road bike paths instead of on-road bike lanes (or, ideally, in addition to them), here’s a summary of some recent research I conducted and some recent research out of Harvard Medical School: More or less, bicycle infrastructure policy and its relationship to riderships was…

Green Majority Radio – May 24, 2013 – Public Servants and Other Popular Myths

The Green Majority

Download: tgm_240513.mp3 // There are a mountain of special announcements this week! See below the show description for a list of the most recent updates or here to stay up to date. Kimberly Carroll the media representative for the Toronto Vege Pride Parade joins the show to talk about their event as well as discuss this weeks topic, less of a news item and more of a discussion between Kevin, Kimberly and I about the state of politics when we have a class of people who are wealth and powerful whose only job description is that they are electable. We talk about the impact on the way decisions are made and relate this to the problems with the corporate media as well with Kimberly’s help. At the end Kimberly talks about the popular subway campaign she started in Toronto that is now a national campaign called Why Love One? (and eat the other). Stay up to date on the exciting special announcements here. The most recent exciting updates on our Green Majority TV Project! 1. The filming

Memorial Day Planet Parade: See Jupiter, Mercury & Venus

Go to News!

A trio of bright planets is shining together in the sunset sky, a must-see night sky sight for stargazers this Memorial Day weekend. via Science News Headlines – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/memorial-day-planet-parade-see-jupiter-mercury-venus-215907352.html

Ode to Progress.

Definitive Lapse of Reason

Roses are green, Violets are too, Sugar is rich and Monsanto too. Dedicated to all Genetically Modified Organism makers without whom the fields in my nightmares would sport normal colors only. Tay. Oh and if you care, tomorrow : http://occupy-monsanto.com/

The Bible, Truth and Our Current Foolishness

Welcome Travelers...

I see arguments about why the Bible isn’t “true” all the time. Supposedly some people interpret the Bible literally and conclude that the world was created a few thousand years ago and the events in Genesis, for example, occurred in chronological order just as described, in seven literal days. These people are supposedly a threat to humankind and are avowed enemies of science (the new savior.) Actually, most people pick the parts of the Bible that support their preconceptions and run with those, just like the Qur’an (and the U.S. constitution, for that matter.) (BTW, scientists also select which evidence to observe and historians select which records to research.) The fact that men still have functional eyeballs shows just one instance of not taking the Bible literally, because Jesus said if your eye cause you to sin, you should pluck it out. “Oh, he didn’t mean that literally,” you say. Oh, which parts did he mean literally? And who decides? And if he meant some parts metaphorically,

What’s going on in this photo?

The Science Blog

In the Amazon rainforest salt is a highly sought after commodity. Tears are full of salt, so these butterflies are literally drinking the turtles tears to get the vital mineral. This is a fairly common sight in the Amazon, and it’s not restricted to butterflies. Here’s a video of bees drinking turtle tears: http://bit.ly/10q2hG3 More info: http://bit.ly/10u18dk Thanks to Rainforest Expeditions Lodges for the image.

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