I might be distracted for a few days — I’m at our second annual retreat, in which we drag 50 new biology students out to a field station and force them to confront biology. Me, too…I saw a tree! And a squirrel!
I’ll put this below the fold — the story of Christine Mackinday and Jonathan Koppenhaver might be traumatizing to some. It’s about a vicious beating.
Fresh off his stupid remarks about atheists, Kevin Sorbo has now made stupid remarks about the black people — excuse me, animals
— of Ferguson.
Rebecca Watson is having a moving sale, and that means everything in the Pharyngula store is half off with the promo code “hellyeah50”.
I feel so cheap, suddenly.
Kim Goodsell was not a scientist, but she wanted to understand the baffling constellation of disease symptoms that were affecting her. The doctors delivered partial diagnoses, that accounted for some of her problems, but not all. So she plunged into the scientific literature herself. The point of the linked article is that there is a wealth of genetic information out there, and that we might someday get to the point of tapping into the contributions of citizen scientists. But I thought this was the most interesting part:
How about another of those non-awkward Dawkins Twitter questions? Although this one actually is kind of awkward, in a non-offensive way. I don’t quite know what it means.
Does evolution rely upon digital genetics? Could there be an analogue genetics? What features of life have to be true all over the universe?
I pointed out that their article on ‘ropen’ was biased mush from a crank, and lo! The article is now flagged.
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The closest major city to me is Fargo, North Dakota — it’s a very pleasant place, quite a bit smaller than Minneapolis, but that’s part of the charm. It also has occasional problems: it’s very flat, and sometimes experiences major flooding, and of course, snow. If you want to invest in community infrastructure, the most useful contributions are sandbags and snowplows.
Sometimes, the kids get a little unruly — there have actually been small riots in Fargo, typically over sports events and rock concerts.
