My bookmarks tend to build up after a while:

• A new drug may help memory loss garnered from sleep deprivation:
  
  They found that the sleep-deprived rodents had a higher level of an enzyme called PDE4 than those left to sleep normally. In order to make sure that these increased levels of PDE4 were indeed behind the long-term memory loss they tested ( Read more... )

YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

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Funny, I never pictured Satan with manboobs. But I figured he'd fuck hippos.

Thanks again Amanda for this. I didn't know The Dynamic Duo made a video about this. But to spare everyone else, I'll post the video Amanda sent me with commentary by this chick:

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Ah... that's better. Not... too much headdesking for me tonight!

But yes, Ray Comfort is issuing his own version of The Origin of Species to universities free of ( Read more... )

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The Sedalia marching band evolution T-shirt issue has become a bit of a blogosphere wave. Four of my go-to bloggers -- PZ, Orac, Steve Novella, and Phil Plait -- all talked about it, but Dr Novella's was by far the best:

In the small community of Sedalia Missouri there happens to be a substantial Krishna community. (I won’t get into the various ( Read more... )

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William Dembski is a guy I don't think I've talked about much in the creationism/ID vs. evolution debates, despite being such a prominent figure. He's a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute (like everyone else there) and a mathematician, so unlike Behe, his primary arguments rely on the idea that evolution is against all odds ( Read more... )

Remember that creation v. evolution pamphlet I sent away for by people who had ads on Scienceblogs? Well, it arrived some weeks ago, and boy... it's every bit as painful as I expected. The first paragraph of the first page just smack you across the cheek:

Why has evolution become so widely accepted, and why has the Bible come to be viewed with ( Read more... )

It's more likely than you think. Mark of the Calladus Blog offers this great idea:

This is an unbelievably perfect opportunity to do the fieldwork necessary to create an audio "walking tour" of the museum for future secular visitors. Many museums have these sorts of audio tours, where the listener is guided step by step through the museum and ( Read more... )

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