Category Archives: Science

Retroviruses, Pseudogenes, and Common Descent

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Thanos

Proofs of common descent that are pretty devastating to AIG, ICR’s, and Discovery Institute’s creationist arguments are the genetic histories of our species. Continue reading →

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How To Be a Denialist in Ten Easy Steps

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Thanos

In the latest New Scientist they cover the ever blooming fields of denialism that popped up everywhere or that bloomed anew in the first decade of the new millennium. One of their references is an important paper from Martin Mckee, … Continue reading →

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Simple but Eloquent Proofs of our Common Ancestry

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Thanos

Science uses some of the SINEs and LINEs of our times to track our common ancestry, and determine some of what had to be true of your evolution and mine. Our great national shame is that only Turkey has lower … Continue reading →

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Measuring the Ice: ESA

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Thanos

There’s been a lot of controversy over ice extent and thickness, and most of the controversy has been generated from the traditional denialist camps and outlets and they are bent on distorting and devaluing what is reported. With the new … Continue reading →

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When Creationists Put on Their Angsty Panties

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Thanos

You can bet that Fox news will cover it since it continues their “Culture Wars” theme and keeps their bile-fed elderly market share pumped up and angered enough to watch. Christians are being persecuted daily after all and there are … Continue reading →

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Measuring Extent and Depth of Sea Ice 2010

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Thanos

Nasa’s program to measure glacier and sea ice extent and depth returns much better data than just satellite measurements. Continue reading →

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New siRNA Nanobot Cancer Treatment

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Thanos

In the new Nature there’s a paper on a recent study of attacking cancers with siRNA (small interfering Ribonucleic Acid strand) Nano-bots that looks very promising. More here: Short sequences of RNA that can effectively turn off specific genes have … Continue reading →

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AGW: Still Very Real Despite all the Luddite Mobs Trying to Storm the Castle

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Thanos

covers several of the recent climate denialist headlines, which almost always get things exactly wrong or backwards. Continue reading →

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Our Pale Blue Dot

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Thanos

This is our pale blue dot — ours but for a moment in vast cosmic time.

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A Warming World

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Thanos

Here’s a video from NASA data that details some of the factors behind AGW. For much more information go to Nasa’s Warming World page.

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