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Apologies for not getting this out on Monday.

Nick Matzke at the National Center for Science Education has indexed one of the most bizarre claims levvied against evolutionary science. He was reading a book by Wiker and Witt, two antievolutionists affiliated with the Discovery Institute, and near the end, they concocted the most amazing argument ever seen - That Charles Darwin undermined the foundation of mathematics. Read More…

Google is celebrating it’s 8th birthday today! Also, while I was in LA last week, I stopped by the Google office in Santa Monica to take some pictures. Yeah, their Headquarters are in Mountain View, but those letters are simply irresistible. I’m such a nerd.

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Martin Rundkvist of Salto Sobrius has just issued the 44th edition of the Skeptic’s Circle. Take a read and see what’s going on in the realm of skeptical blogging, but don’t stay away too long! As Martin points out at the end - The 45th Skeptic’s Circle will be hosted right here on the 12th of October. Send submissions to science AT inoculatedmind DOT com. I’ll send out a reminder.

Episode 32 of the Mindcast is up!

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I was driving down to L.A. on Friday, ready to spend a week without too many worldly distractions, when the ABC news updates on KGO reported that people have been getting sick and one has died from an outbreak of E. coli linked to spinach grown on organic farms in California. The news reports were very short, limited to warning against eating fresh spinach, the numbers on who’s been affected, and where investigators have linked the outbreak. My immediate reaction was that the bacteria were likely to have come from manure, which is frequently spread on organic farms. Needless to say I’m interested in this story. Read More…

Chris Mooney was rolling through the area on his book tour, and today he spoke at the Booksmith on Haight Street, just a block away from the famous Haight and Ashbury intersection. (The Grateful Dead once lived there.) I talked to Chris on the phone the day before, in anticipation of his visit. I couldn’t wait to finally meet the author of The Republican War on Science and see him speak in person, and so my lady-love and I drove on over from Davis. Read More…

Mindcast Episode 31 is now up!

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Starbucks Coffee, based in Seattle, WA, now prints a Discovery Institute quote on their coffee cups. Read More…