Orac at Respectful Insolence has visited 78% of the states in the US. How many have I been to? Read More…

Episode 70 of the Mindcast is up!

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Episode 69 of the Mindcast is up!

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I got interviewed a few weeks ago for KCRW’s Good Food, way down in Santa Monica, CA. Turns out they wanted to hear about what it’s like raising honeybees, and I got a few words in about the complex flavors of honey, to what’s good about the public reaction to CCD, and they really wanted to know what “Bee Bread” was. You’ll just have to listen Saturday morning at 11 AM PST to find out what that is. Here’s the link to the episode.

They’ll be linking back, or reading my website URL, so I’ll be sure to welcome their listeners with a few good things, how about a food-focused Mindcast episode or two?

Last Saturday, I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko. Very good film, and well-timed to affect the political discourse early on in the election campaigns for next year. So then I was browsing onegoodmove, where many of Michael Moore’s interviews have been posted, and I came across a fecal storm. Read More…

Uncommon Descent is a home for science-deniers (denying evolution, recently global warming, and now sprinklings of HIV-AIDS denial), and is usually a waste of time. Ed Brayton describes it as “Dembski’s home for wayward sycophants. But it does have its good qualities.

Besides the street theater-type entertainment, every now and then they link to really good papers or articles. Take this one, for example, where William Dembski links to an excellent paper by Barbara Forrest. Because I’m so familiar with the antievolution movement (particularly ID) thus far, I could skip the first sections. But the post-Kitzmiller section, and the Biologic Institute section are well worth my - and your - time.

Direct link to the paper.

Dembski, of course, offers up his usual unsubstantive ad-hominem attack on Forrest. Keep dreaming of ruling over a university and kicking out all the practicing scientists materialists. Keep dreaming…

Today is July 4th. One month ago, today, I started my first day of grad school. How are things turning out, you ask? Click through and read for yourself. Read More…

Episode 68 of the Mindcast is now up!

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