Posted in featured, tagged Blogging on October 25, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Glasswing Butterfly Greta Oto. Photo (cc) Eco Heathen.
Every so often someone comes up with a ‘Why Blog?’ post. It’s a question I’ve been asking for a while. I don’t have a compelling answer so I’m taking a break from blogging. If and when I do return it may or may not be to this blog. [...]
Posted in Life on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Right. Skeptic Class. Stop what you are doing. Silence. Stop Talking. iPods out of your ears. Orac - no more insolence from you. Are you chewing? You are all here in detention class because I have been hearing very bad things about all of you. You have all brought shame on the Skeptics’ Circle. Now [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Science, featured, tagged comet on October 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The comet was observed at about magnitude 14.5 since July and had showed signs of a slow fading; however, very early on the morning of October 24, Juan Antonio Henr’quez Santana (Spain) reported that the comet was much brighter than expected. This was all rapidly confirmed. One comet observer, Bob King (Minnesota, USA), made one [...]
Posted in Life on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Four Stone Hearth is up at the Primate Diaries. I found it a difficult carnival to host, so I’m hugely impressed by someone who seems have pulled together posts from the four Anthropological fields into one entry. If you haven’t visited it before I recommend taking the time to look at some of the other [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Life, Religion, tagged biblical studies on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This article, in my mind, has put this question to rest. It is time to speak of “Judeans”, “Judean practices”, and “Judean culture” in the same way that we would speak of the identity and practices of the many other ethnic groups or peoples that existed in antiquity. The Judeans of antiquity are not a [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Life on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“The parts we have excavated so far are only around a third of the entire site,” said Mr Wallace-Hadrill. “But it is a bit difficult to expropriate the land to excavate the Villa dei Papyri, since it lies underneath the modern town hall,” he joked.”Many of the cellars of the modern houses are only a [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, featured, tagged art, neuroscience, palaeolithic on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
While looking for something else I found this snippet from How Art Made the World. It deals with the exaggerated features of the Ice Age Venuses. Yes they’re unrealistic images of women, but why do they look unrealistic? The answer might be found in the actions of gulls. This segment filled me with ambiguous feelings, [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeoastronomy, Astronomy, featured, tagged history of science on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Greek Dove. Photo (cc) Kristie’s NaturesPortraits.
Scientifically speaking a negative result is as important as a positive result. Nonetheless while positive results which no-one expected are publishable, negative results - which people would have expected if they’d thought about it a bit - are difficult to get published.
As an example, I’m looking at connections between ancient [...]
Posted in Life, tagged ethics, homeopathy, pseudoscience on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s on Bad Science. On the plus side the SoH have got in contact and asked about the claimed cancer curing chemical conman. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.
In the meantime there’s LOLHomeopathicRemedies and the world’s unluckiest LOLcat.
Posted in featured, tagged academia, open access, Politics, Science on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Capitol Hill. Photo (cc) Wyntuition.
If you live in the USA then Bora Zivkovic needs your help. The Senate is considering the FY08 Labor-HHS Bill. It’s of interest because it includes provisions to make NIH funded research available through open access 12 months after commercial publication. Currently the voluntary arrangement means that only 5% of research [...]
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