Posted on January 25, 2009 by Cheshire
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I’m not even going to pretend that I read everything what pops up in popular science. My exposure to pop-sci articles consists largely of stumbling into the Iowa State University bookstore and thumbing through the science magazines, usually after I look at the pretty women in fashion magazines. I’m a [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by Cheshire
Take a look at Casey Luskin’s diagram in his most recent post over at Evolution News and Views.
Believe it or not, this diagram hits close to home to me.
You see, the very fact that I’m alive is proof positive that this diagram fails the most basic test of irreducible complexity. I have a part missing [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2008 by Cheshire
Many spiders get a really bad rap merely because they have hideously toxic venom.
Okay, that’s actually a really good reason to be very, very careful when dealing with some spiders. Especially Black Widows.
Black widows in areas they live are pretty much ubiquitous. I got the chance to collect them while I was in Texas, and [...]
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Posted on December 25, 2008 by Cheshire
So I haven’t been on the blogosphere for too long, but my weblog is just starting to get some decent traffic (mostly as a result of the researchblogging posts I try to do about once a week or so) and I’m just becoming aware of some of the conflicts that take place regularly on the [...]
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