Terrorists have no religion? Yeah…right.

Aamir Kahn is a pretty big star in Bollywood…which is kind of like our version of Hollywood. He’s been watching his country be torn apart by a massive terrorist attack which has so far killed about 200 people. The death toll’s gonna rise as things are cleaned up. Nobody really knows who’s behind it as [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, folks!

I just wanted to wish a happy thanksgiving to everyone who reads this blog. I’m breaking the mold and having ham instead of turkey…just because I’m totally a rebel like that. Drive safe if you’ve been drinking.

Rezpektez teh opinenz!!!1!!1!!!

Matt Nisbet made a post yesterday which I found interesting. As I understand his position, he’s essentially criticizing what he views as labeling the other side a debate as a means of argument. In theory, he’s right. However, it seems he’s never been here on the interwebs.

I don’t know if you guys have been reading my blogroll…

…but if you haven’t, head over to Bug Girl’s blog and donate to the UN nothing but nets campaign. It’s a great campaign…it’s a United Nations program which sends bednets over to Africa to help combat malaria. It’s actually a pretty effective method for preventing malaria transmission. You can read more about it in Bug [...]

Compsilura concinnata

Yesterday, I wrote about a fly that’s been killing our native silkmoths. It’s really an unfortunate story, but I didn’t really write anything about the biology of this guy. I’ve been writing about various parasites and going into their biology a little bit, but I don’t think I’ve ever hit on tachinid biology. You can [...]

This is exactly what the internet is supposed to be used for!

I’m doing some research right now on how biocontrol programs have basically destroyed our native moths. Basically, we have a problem with an introduced pest called the ‘gypsy moth’ which I better know as Lymantria dispar. It was introduced way back in the early 1860s and has been nomming up our forests ever since. Infestations [...]

Famous Scientists: Charles Darwin Online!

Cool site! You can read everything written by Charles Darwin here. They have the first edition of Origin of Species, Descent of Man…even his autobiography…amongst a plethora of other things. I’ll be posting more and more webpages devoted to famous scientists as I find them.

Dembski steps down

http://www.uncommondescent.com/adminstrative/change-at-ud/ I’m a bit late getting in on this, I know. Most of my pseudoscience reading happens when I’m not in school. It looks like Dembski’s stepping down from Uncommon Descent to ‘work on research’ on his so-called conservation of information thingy. Of course, Dembski’s so-called information conservation is simply non-sensical because it ignores the [...]

Parasites make the ultimate sacrifice for their young

I heart parasites. They’re strange-and frightening. And surprising. You wouldn’t neccessarily think of parasites as having any maternal instincts. They generally try to shed eggs off as fast as they can so that perhaps a lucky few may get into a new host. Kind of puts a whole damper on the parent thing, right? Well, [...]

So I, uh…guess Ray Comfort wantez teh athyezts?

http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/2008/11/request-to-atheists.html Great…the guy who tried to disprove evolution by pointing to a fruit that’s been artificially bred over the course of a few thousand years is asking someone to write the foreward to his book which I’m oh-so certain will be nothing more than a butchering of basically every science you can think of. Fan-fucking [...]