Fresh cores taken from the bottom of the Dea Sea indicate it fluctuated wildly for tens of thousands of years and may have dried up once or twice along the way: [Read more…]
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Fresh cores taken from the bottom of the Dea Sea indicate it fluctuated wildly for tens of thousands of years and may have dried up once or twice along the way: [Read more…]
Given the current anti-science jubilee going on among wingnut foot soldiers on the orders of their ignorant field commanders, you wouldn’t think they’d make a fuss about science. But you’d be wrong. One bold, fearless, anonymous member of the Keyboard Komanndos is mad as hell and they’re not gonna take it anymore! [Read more…]
A new study links the rejection of science with political party, and the correlation that turned up should surprise no one. Chris Mooney writing at DeSmogBlog looks at the results: [Read more…]
Oh let's see, who could it be ... SATAN!?
The trickster god has been busy of late, fabricating and planting a new fossil for Jesus-hating physical anthropologists to crow about. This one from a rare and incredibly useful diagnostic region of the body for scientists studying human/primate origins: [Read more…]
Here we are, more than 200 years after Darwin’s birth, and in four US states the religiously motivated battle against scientific reality continues unabated: [Read more…]
What can a young earther say? In stark irony to the poll of evangelical pastors “almost evenly split” on whether the earth, and presumably the universe, are a few thousand years old, the Hubble looks more than 13 billion years back in time and snapped the spectacular shot above. Those points and blobs are the first known generation of stars and galaxies to shine in an infant universe. [Read more…]
We get hate mail at Daily Kos and post the best every Saturday for Hate-mail-a-palooza. This week we got a real gem from the rabid mind of a creationist victim titled Evolution Fantasy(!), reproduced in whole below the fold for your holiday reading pleasure. [Read more…]
The Atacama desert in southern Chile is already famous in science circles. The pristine condition and almost non-existent cloud cover made it an ideal choice for the most powerful telescope complex on earth. But despite the climate and terrain, the region is now one of the coolest places in the world for research into whale evolution: [Read more…]
I’m not sure what cave Michael Bloomberg has been buried in for the last 30 years, but he apparently emerged this week and discovered, to his shock, that his former party does not believe in science: [Read more…]
Scientists have examined remains of sauropods and found evidence they may have traveled far and wide over the course of a single year: [Read more…]