Cooling Fin
Evolutionary adaptations are sometimes bizarre, like the one that dogs and wolves evolved to shed excess heat. Their tongues are big liquid drenched cooling fins coated with capillaries and vessels near the surface – if you click on the thumbnail to enlarge the photo you can see that. This is an adaptation that evolved [...]
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Putting Faith in its Place
A good logical examination of faith, and why you shouldn’t go overboard with it and try to control others by its dictates. Those should be personal for you, but not for everyone else – their beliefs might be different and nobody can prove who is correct.
This comes from one of my [...]
Categories: Culture, Freedom, Science |
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Moon Waxing to Half
Here’s tonight’s moon picture.
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Congressman David Camp on the Baucus Gag Order
Senator David Camp of the Ways and Means Committee speaking on how they are contesting Senator Baucus’ attack on Humana’s right to communicate with their customers.
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G-20 Protestors Get Violent
The usual Anarcho-communists showed up to violently protest capitalism and the G-20 global summit in Pittsburgh, and you can see some media hypocrisy in the coverage. [Aside:They call themselves "Anarchists" because nobody calls themselves communist or Marxist in this century without getting laughed at.]
The protests did grow violent with Black Bloc’ers and [...]
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Late September Moon
A took a few photos of the moon tonight, one was taken at the full 300mm focus of the lens at 200 ISO setting and 1/25 shutter speed. The other was taken at 70 mm with a plain auto setting to allow a long exposure. In the photo on the left you can [...]
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Evolution of the Mosasaur
Species have migrated from sea to land and sometimes back again throughout evolution, here you see the evolution of the Mosasaur, and how it evolved from a small, land lizard into a fearsome sea predator.
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Sublimation: Fun With Dry Ice
I had some dry ice left over from repairing the freezer (we stowed the frozen food in a cooler with Dry ice while I disassembled, repaired, and reassembled the ice maker) Dry ice sublimates much faster when you put it in water, as they do to make smoke at Rock concerts [...]
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The Death of a Good Man: Norman Borlaug RIP
The anti-Christ of the Luddite factions in Greenpeace has died. Norman Borlaug was the pioneer of genetically modified crops that have kept billions in the subcontinent of Asia from starving to death as the Club of Rome report “Limits to Growth” had predicted in 1972. Literally billions [...]
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September Morn
Eight years ago I walked into mission control at work just like every other day, stopping by to check if there were any large technical issues that needed resolving. Dave was staring at the bank of televisions above the rows of 20 monitors that kept track of the call centers we actively watch all [...]
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Andy Timmons -Gone
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Why Scientists Accept Evolution
Don Exodus probably disagrees with me along a wide spectrum of political views, but he gets science right.
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Slow smoked most of the day, that’s corn on the cob in the foil.
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The Michael Moore Challenge
Some people estimate that Michael Moore’s worth is 100 million or better, and in his new movie he declares that capitalism is evil. Since capitalism is merely property and the trading thereof, I call on Michael to stop relishing his own evil by giving every penny he has away. Every bit of [...]
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The Tree of Life
Darwin’s tree of life has been much ridiculed by creationist fundamentalists since its conception by the brilliant scientist, but every branch, fork, and dead leaf becomes clearer with passing time. The decoding of genomic branching strengthens the theory of evolution almost every day as new papers are published. The tree is much [...]
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