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Aamir Kahn is a pretty big star in Bollywood…which is kind of like our version of Hollywood. He’s been watching his country be torn apart by a massive terrorist attack which has so far killed about 200 people. The death toll’s gonna rise as things are cleaned up.
Nobody really knows who’s behind it as of [...]
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If you remember from last week, I ended the post with a clever little pun about golf making it’s divot on the history of insect pathology. So…what does golf have to do with anything?
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I just wanted to wish a happy thanksgiving to everyone who reads this blog.
I’m breaking the mold and having ham instead of turkey…just because I’m totally a rebel like that.
Drive safe if you’ve been drinking.
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Matt Nisbet made a post yesterday which I found interesting.
As I understand his position, he’s essentially criticizing what he views as labeling the other side a debate as a means of argument.
In theory, he’s right. However, it seems he’s never been here on the interwebs.
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…but if you haven’t, head over to Bug Girl’s blog and donate to the UN nothing but nets campaign.
It’s a great campaign…it’s a United Nations program which sends bednets over to Africa to help combat malaria. It’s actually a pretty effective method for preventing malaria transmission.
You can read more about it in Bug Girl’s [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote about a fly that’s been killing our native silkmoths. It’s really an unfortunate story, but I didn’t really write anything about the biology of this guy.
I’ve been writing about various parasites and going into their biology a little bit, but I don’t think I’ve ever hit on tachinid biology.
You can see a [...]
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I’m doing some research right now on how biocontrol programs have basically destroyed our native moths. Basically, we have a problem with an introduced pest called the ‘gypsy moth’ which I better know as Lymantria dispar. It was introduced way back in the early 1860s and has been nomming up our forests ever since. Infestations [...]
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In 1916, the japanese beetle, Polillia japonica was introduced to the US. This pest still causes millions of dollars worth of damage per year, but in this time period there was no way to control it. It ran rampant…uncontrolled. That is, until we discovered something was killing it’s grubs.
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Cool site!
You can read everything written by Charles Darwin here.
They have the first edition of Origin of Species, Descent of Man…even his autobiography…amongst a plethora of other things.
I’ll be posting more and more webpages devoted to famous scientists as I find them.
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http://www.uncommondescent.com/adminstrative/change-at-ud/
I’m a bit late getting in on this, I know. Most of my pseudoscience reading happens when I’m not in school.
It looks like Dembski’s stepping down from Uncommon Descent to ‘work on research’ on his so-called conservation of information thingy.
Of course, Dembski’s so-called information conservation is simply non-sensical because it ignores the simplest concept in [...]
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