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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 3:36pm
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Ignorance leads to evil: albinos are being butchered for their body parts in Burundi . Witch doctors are spreading the claim that their body parts are valuable in attracting gold, so stupid and greedy people are killing them and selling off bits
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 3:04pm
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Seed and Scientists and Engineers for America are teaming up to promote a youtube challenge — they are collecting videos of scientists stating who they are voting for in the coming election. The first one up is Marty Chalfie, winner of
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 12:52pm
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Wait until the wingnuts get this: Hindus are presenting Obama with a monkey-god idol . The idol is being presented to Obama as he is reported to be a Lord Hanuman devotee and carries with him a locket of the monkey god along with other
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 11:51am
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The latest issue of Science has a deservedly cruel review of Steve Fuller's dreary philosophical assault on evolution, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism . I could tell from the title alone that the book was
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 9:08am
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How can I resist this poll? It's on a site called Pray for McCain-Palin , which is hilarious in itself, and here's the poll on that page: Senator McCain's Pick of Sarah Palin as Vice Presidential Running Mate Solidified my vote
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 7:32am
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The Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference is in trouble — government support has been flat, and corporate support has been declining. They are really in trouble: here's what I got from one of the people working on it:
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 14, 2008 at 3:18am
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Congratulations to surviving for a whole 21 years. Now go say thank you to your sweetie, Avy. It's very short notice and I didn't know what to get you anyway, so you'll have to settle for a picture of an affectionate pair of land iguanas.
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 13, 2008 at 10:55pm
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Here's a very strange fossil from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte, an early Cambrian fossil bed from 525 million years ago. It's a collection of Waptia -like arthropods, nothing unusual there; these are ancient creatures that look
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 13, 2008 at 8:12pm
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On politics, Hitchens and I rarely agree…but this time he and I are singing in harmony. Obama is not a perfect candidate by any means, but McCain/Palin are a national disgrace , and there's only one way rational people can vote.
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Posted to Pharyngula on October 13, 2008 at 8:12pm
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DO NOT SEND ME ANY MORE REQUESTS TO CRASH THE PBS POLL ON SARAH PALIN. I am receiving over 50 email requests per day to do it, and there are a dozen comments every day mentioning it. You don't see them because I've had to specifically add a filter to
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