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I’ve been following swine flu via the CDC and WHO, and I’ve been seeing what type of BS is floating around on Yahoo answers. The Religion and Spirituality section has been great for this (surprise, surprise)…and some truly funny stuff has come through the interwebs.
Some of my favorites. I’m not going to take the time [...]
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As weak as I thought the third series of Dr. Who was, I thought it had one of the strongest finales I’ve seen. The return of The Master was one of my favorite episodes, and The Master is my favorite villain from the old series.
Anyways…here’s the song from that finale. It’s [...]
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I’m taking an aquatic entomology course right now, and part of the class is an insect collection made from insects I’ve contacted in aquatic habitats. It’s been a fun project, and I’ve seen some truly incredible places in the course of it, but through it all there’s one thing that’s amazed me most about doing [...]
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Aaaah, springtime at Iowa State. You know what that means…the flowers are out, birds are singing, bugs are just starting to emerge from hibernation…and Tom Short comes to Campus.
I’ve no respect for this man…if you look around the interwebs, you can find articles that claim he said things like ‘Hitler didn’t go far enough’. I [...]
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So I’ve been looking into graduate schools and reading insane amounts of research papers and I’ve decided that I’m mainly interested in two things about pesticide resistance.
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I leave the state for two whole days and the supreme court decides to get all rational on me. Great…but why can’t this sort of thing happen more often?
You can read the whole ruling here. Some highlights below the jump…
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Okay…I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything semi-science related (or…you know, anything at all), so I figure I’d cue y’all into what’s up.
As I mentioned before, I have some legal (minor custody quibble) stuff to sort out and quite a bit of preparation for finals to do. I just got back from a [...]
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