One Last Poem in Honor of National Poetry Month

One last poetry entry. This is one I wrote myself. I was not going to post anything I wrote but Mrs. afarensis threatened to do horrible things if I didn’t. This is actually an older one and is stylistically much different from recent attempts…I should mention that it is about Bach…

Theme Song: Off the Bridge I Go

Since everybody else is taking it, I guess I will too Your Theme Song is Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd “There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship�s smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves.” You haven’t been feeling a lot lately, and you think that’s a good thing. [...]

Question of the Day: So What was Keith Richards Doing in the Tree Anyway?

According to ABC News Keith Richards has been hospitalized in New Zealand after falling out of a palm tree in Fiji…apparently, he is suffering from a concussion…Just goes to show, we are monkeys* after all…. * Yes, I know, I’ve linked to it before, it’s very profound so I’m linking to it again.

ABC Meme: Apparently, If All the Other ScienceBloggers Jumped Off A Bridge, I Would Too

Since all the other bloggers are doing I guess I will too…

This is Cool

A story on MSNBC talks about new attempts to carbon date the volcanic eruption on Santorini could revise the chronology of early Mediterranean history: Overall, the radiocarbon results indicate that the formation and high point of the New Palace period of Crete, the wall paintings of Akrotiri, the Shaft Grave period of the Greek mainland, [...]

How Cool Is That!

This is the second of the Ichthyostega posts…

Ichthyostega and the Origins of Land Vertebrates

I have a temp assignment for the next couple of days, so in the meantime I thought I would repost this from my archives. This is the first of two I wrote on the subject. After I wrote the first, as you will see, Per Ahlberg, was kind enough to send me the article so [...]

Jon Stewart Blows It – Well Kind Of

The Daily Show just did a segment on the Bosnian pyramid! Coturnix would spin in his grave if he saw that – except he’s not really in his grave, but if he was, he would!

Global Warming: Unintended Consequences

A lot has been written about the impact of global warming, but an article on ABC News discusses an aspect I had never thought about before. The article discusses the public health aspects of global warming. The article mentions a number of cases that can be directly or indirectly linked to global warming. For example, [...]

Politics: More Republican Corruption and a Bad Sex Education Bill

The St. Louis Post Dispatch has another fine example of Republican corruption: A prominent attorney pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he defrauded the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District out of $45,190 when he was its lawyer, and that he failed to pay taxes on about $540,000 of income 2002. Charles E. Polk Jr., 45, [...]

Monkeys!

Kambiz has a great video over at Anthropology.Net – one everybody needs to see! So good that I’ll overlook the fact that chimps are not monkeys!

Luskin’s Latest

Ed sent me this link Casey Luskin’s latest bashing of paleoanthropology. I have responed with a post over on Anthropology.Net – which can be found here. Note to Doubleday: I would be more than happy to review The First Human on my blog – just send me a review copy…

More Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month

Since Stochastic is making a big deal of it and all, here is another. This time from Percy Bysshe Shelley, rather than Poe (didn’t want to depress anyone)…

ID Arguments from Creationist Sources

Ed at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a post aboutID Arguments from Creationist Sources. Apparently, the UD people are whining: If ID really is just repackaged Creationism, why not just expose the arguments for what they are and be done with it?

Hubble Telescope: Happy Sweet Sixteen!

The Hubble Telescope turned 16 today. To celebrate, this cool picture of Messier 82 – a galaxy some 12 million light-years away – was released ba NASA.