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Atheists get sweaty when daring God
When you get anxious or emotionally aroused, you sweat. Not a lot, but enough to be detected using electrodes on the finger tips.And it turns out that if you take a bunch of atheists, and get them to...
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Citizen Scientists Dig Up the Truth about Decomposing Dung
The amount of cow dung plopped into the world every day is almost unthinkable, but Tomas Roslin is thinking about it."We can regard it as either an immense waste problem or an enormous ecosystem...
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TMI Friday: Friction Burns
When engaging in Slicking the Willie, Molesting the monkey and Throttling the turkey, a thought may occur to the male masturbator. "If I do this too much, will it fall off ?" So we come to the subject...
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Leaf elves came but other things make for busy life
One day our yard is solid leaves so deep you can't see any lawn; the next day they're all gone. Actually the leaves have been shredded and piled in places for spreading around. With so many gardens...
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Horrible, terrible no-good, very bad weather
The weather service predicted violent weather today, and boy they were not kidding. This weather system spawned not only very violent thunderstorms but some massive tornadoes. The nearest tornado was...
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Pulsars to detect Earth's motion
by @ulaulaman about #astronomy #pulsars #mathematics #earth I published this post some years ago (archived version), but for unilateral decision of the online publisher, it is deleted, so I decide to...
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The Elaenia Elaenias
Yellow-bellied elaenia Elaenia flavogaster, photographed by Félix Uribe. We are all aware that there are some truly stunning birds out there: majestic eagles and vultures, vibrant parrots and...
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You Might Have Outgrown Synesthesia as a Kid
Feeling smug because your normal brain doesn't insist on coloring all its 2's blue and M's purple? Not so fast: you might have been a child synesthete. Some elementary schoolers have associations...
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Comet ISON in the Sky
There is a new object in the sky. Comet ISON is an icy wanderer making its first and probably last last trip into the solar system from its previous home in the Oort cloud. It will graze by the Sun...
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Bishop to 21st century
Catholic Bishop Thomas Paparazzi is going to exorcize evil,or the devil, or demons, from Lincolnland this Wednesday at about the same time the Governor signs the gay-marriage bill into law. Of course...
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The Signature of All Things: Part 1
I read through the first part of The Signature of All Things this past weekend. There is not much to report on the bryological front. Mosses only popped in once or twice. They were used to pack seeds...
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Life was not created
This brochure from The Watchtower was sent to me by a reddit user, who in turn received it from a friend who believes God chose this place for us and directed evolution. You can download it here.Here...
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Thinking about the fraction-competent issues
The post-doc is polishing up has latest manuscript, and on reading it over yesterday I realized that we have data to clarify a very old issue. Here's a link to an old post on this topic:...
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History of Bacteriology: Miasmas and Contagions
Have you ever found yourself walking down a street, and be confronted with a pungent turd blocking your path?You don't know where it came from, but whether it be a dog or a tramp, you know to avoid it....
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Faith in god and faith in doctors
David Rosmarin and colleagues from Harvard Medical School wanted to know if psychiatric patients who believe in God have better treatment outcomes (Previously, Rosmarin found that religious Jews...
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On the road again - rain forest field trip
TPP has been trying to catch his breath since early October, but he's getting no breaks. Just cleared up the manuscripts and grant stuff and gave an another exam to grade today; now off to Costa Rica...
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Of New Zoos and Old Libraries
In May 2009, a small fossil mammal was announced to the world as Darwinius masillae. Despite looking (let's be honest) like some sort of road-killed rat, Darwinius attracted a lot of interest due to...
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Pretty smooth road trip
Left Lincolnland this morning at 6 AM and now it's 5:20 PM and TPP has set up shop in a casa at the field station and is awaiting din-dins. No airline problems at all, which is pretty amazing. No...
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Enthalpy-entropy compensation and water networks
Enthalpy-entropy compensation (EEC) is an endlessly interesting phenomenon; it's the kind of topic that makes scientists either roll up their sleeves for a good fight or slowly walk away from the...
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Do carbohydrates play a role In intrinsic immunity?
A question that has been on my mind for the last few months is this: how do viruses interact with cellular carbohydrates? You may find that a dull question but excuse me, I'm currently writing up my...
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