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A. sediba published...and quickly!
There is a lot of hype right now about the exciting new report of a species of Australopithicine from South Africa, which was just published in Science (the article is free to download, there's also a podcast). And just in time for the Paleoanthropology meetings which begin on Monday in St. Louis - this should bring a lot of the press to the ( Read more... ) -
#articlefail
There's an article in the guardian about the Amazon Fiasco which is quite good, except for this inaccurate AND useless statement:
"The affected books all seem to have hetero- and/or homosexual content."
OMG EVERY BOOK ABOUT PEOPLE EVER IS DERANKED. Wait. no.
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#amazonfail
I don't tweet, so I'm going to add my two cents on the Amazon.com fiasco here. Thanks to M.Z. for pointing it out and getting me sucked into the interwebs for hours today.
1) I hope Ellen Degeneres calls them up from her show to ask about it. They de-ranked her autobiography! S.P. also pointed out that Rachel Maddow should have some interesting ( Read more... ) -
Book binding!
Thanks to langostino I've been playing around on Momentile, a website where people post a picture a day. While surfing through some I found a user that had a) cool pics of muppet costumes
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New Blog for perusing
My pal B. down in Ann Arbor just started a new blog of strange signs he's seen. I may toss in a sign from time to time as well. It's new, so it's pretty empty, but check 'er out if you want to. Signs that amuse me -
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taken from mothwentbad's journal.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
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young earth creation scienitifified
Via erv, I became aware of a new publication by the Answers in Genesis folks called Answers Research Journal. It is a peer reviewed journal in Creation Science.
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Carnival Time!
I participated in my first blog carnival today, The Giant's Shoulders, and it's available here at A Blog Around the Clock. The purpose was to blog about 'classic' papers in your field.
I wrote about the importance of Radiocarbon Dating in Anthropology. One other person wrote about archaeology - selecting the ever important article Archaeology as ( Read more... ) -
Flock of Hoo-Ha
Via Jezebel, there's an article in the New York Times by ever-quirky Ben Stein, this time analyzing love in an economic fashion. I guess since he mastered creation, he figures he can move on to love. I didn't go to him for advice on science, I don't see any reason to go to him for advice on relationships.
My particular favorite quote is this:
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