…. happened because Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf.
Friday night at Convergence there was an interesting and very funny panel about Bigfoot stories.
The evolution of Bigfoot ….
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Tag Archives: evolution
To Serve Man
How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans,
A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer
Our cousins, the chimpanzees
Good news: They are like us — They can plan for the future.
Bad news: They are like us — They demonstrate this by stockpiling and fabricating weapons.
Planning of the Apes: Zoo Chimp Plots Rock Attacks on Visitors
Over the years, Santino’s operation has become increasingly sophisticated, Osvath says, progressing from simple gathering to fabrication. He has been observed chipping away at the concrete rocks on the island with his hands to sculpt dessert plate–size discs to launch at zoo visitors.
Genes and war
Pseudo-science, censorship, and incompetence
Expelled!. Also see the follow-up.
Via Bad Astronomy.
As my mother used to nag us: Don’t do a half-way job!
Mixed Nuts
Two recent incidents at Midwestern universities, actually quite similar IMHO:
From If you reject a teaching job applicant because he believes a crazy conspiracy theory…:
[….] the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. […] if we know a person believes something truly nutty, are we not entitled to use that as evidence of his intelligence, judgment, and trustworthiness?
From Silly creationists, Universities are for scientists:
….Iowa State University denied tenure to astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. As it happens, Gonzalez is an advocate of Intelligent Design, which has been legally ruled to be not only religion, but actually just warmed-over creationism.
I believe both Universities acted correctly.
Crossing off another one
The Raw Food Movement will not like this….
….But Tony Bourdain will be pleased.
Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and this Scientific American article.
Creationist Museum hires the old Adam
Politicians and Science
6000 years of Republican debates. Is there anybody around who can channel H.L. Mencken???
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 