Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Our Hero, The Rat

Friday, June 11th, 2010

You’re probably aware that abandoned land mines from our species’ countless, pointless wars remain a huge problem throughout the world. The civilized world got together in 1999 and banned these barbaric weapons. The United States, of course, refused.
In Africa, that continent’s numerous civil wars have left huge tracts of land dangerously littered with [...]

129th Skeptics’ Circle: How the Discovery Channel has Fallen

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

(Super-awesome photograph by Ron Britton)
I haven’t been trying to neglect the blog lately. I was hoping to cut back to two or three articles per week, not two or three weeks per article. It’s amazing how merely re-prioritizing the blog from #1 hobby to #2 hobby has robbed it of so much attention. [...]

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 9: Fossil Fraud

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

[Here is the next installment of my experience at the Darwin Was Wrong lie-fest put on by Logos Research Associates. You can start from the beginning of this story in Part 1, or you can jump to the first speaker in Part 4. You can also watch the videos of this conference at the [...]

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 8: Saturday Morning

Monday, January 18th, 2010

[And now, exactly one month since the last episode, here is the next installment of my experience at the Darwin Was Wrong lie-fest put on by Logos Research Associates. I’m writing this at 1:30 AM, so I’ll only cover the praying and singing that preceded the first talk of the day. Tonight, I [...]

The Most Awesome Toy of All

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

In our efforts to make the world safe for retards, we have removed all of the fun from life. That includes the most awesome toy of all time: The Atom!

(All images from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection)

This bad boy comes to us from 1959. It [...]

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 7: Stone Cold Lies

Friday, December 18th, 2009

[This is the latest installment of my experience at the Darwin Was Wrong lie-fest put on by Logos Research Associates. You can start from the beginning of this story in Part 1, or you can jump to the first speaker in Part 4. You can watch the videos of this conference at the Logos website [...]

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 6: Driving Miss Ideologue

Monday, December 7th, 2009

(Image by Crocoduck-Rex)
[This is the latest installment of my experience at the Darwin Was Wrong lie-fest put on by Logos Research Associates. You can start from the beginning of this story in Part 1, or you can jump to the first speaker in Part 4. You can watch the videos of this conference at the [...]

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 5: The Big Revelation

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

(Image from The Searcher’s Flickrstream)
[This is the latest installment of my experience at the Darwin Was Wrong lie-fest put on by Logos Research Associates and held at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa (which is actually in Santa Ana—they can’t even get their own location right!). You can start from the beginning of this story [...]