I don’t know why a bigger fuss isn’t being made over this.
Filed under: Environmental Science, Insanity, Politics, Science in the Media, War on Science | 2 Comments »
ScienceBlogs Jumps The Shark
Posted on July 7, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
Pepsi has a blog. What’s next? HuffPo Woo meistering? Update 1: Okay, I have to admit that Badger3k makes a good point: If SciBlogs can host Nesbitt without losing credibility, what is a corporate “blog” going to do to it?
Filed under: Science in the Media | 6 Comments »
An Open Letter To The New York Times
Posted on May 11, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
Dear Publishers of the New York Times, This is why newspapers are going the way of the dodo bird. Sincerely, Afarensis (Hat Tip to John Hawks)
Filed under: Paleoanthropology, Science in the Media | 4 Comments »
Australopithecus sediba: Was the Embargo Broken
Posted on April 9, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
I will have more to say about the find itself this evening (hopefully), in the meantime time there have been more than a few accusations of someone breaking the embargo on the story. Ivan Oransky at Embargo Watch looks at the issue. Turns out it was a case of a reporter doing some interesting detective [...]
Filed under: Australopithecus sediba, Science in the Media | Tagged: Australopithecus sediba | 1 Comment »
NPR Science Friday: Update
Posted on March 10, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
As I have previously mentioned NPR’s Science Friday is coming to St. Louis on March 12th. Last I heard tickets were all spoken for but earlier this week a pair of tickets arrived in the mail. So, Mrs. afarensis and I will be attending.
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NPR’s Science Friday Is Coming To St. Louis
Posted on February 3, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
NPR’s Science Friday is coming to the St. Louis Science Center according to a “new” story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Unfortunately, tickets to the event are already sold out. Sigh.
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Damn! Fox News Is Stupid!
Posted on January 8, 2010 by afarensis, FCD
Via Highly Allochthonous comes this horrible story from Fox News. The story is supposed to be about lung cancer in China caused by people burning coal that formed 250 million years ago. The story veers strait into stupidity in the first paragraph:
Filed under: Insanity, Paleontology, Science in the Media | 2 Comments »
Dangerous Ltd and the Discovery Channel Quote-mine a Paleontologist
Posted on December 17, 2009 by afarensis, FCD
Normally quote-mining is a behavior one associates with the creationist movement. So it is shocking when the Discovery channel and Dangerous Ltd (makers of Clash of Dinosaurs) engages in the same behavior. The main culprit here is Dangerous Ltd which made the show…
Filed under: Geology, Paleontology, Science in the Media | 1 Comment »
Gaah! This is Horrible Reporting
Posted on October 9, 2009 by afarensis, FCD
ABC News is pandering to creationists in this really bad article on Ardipithecus ramidus. Basically it boils down to, and I kid you not this is a direct quote:
Filed under: Creationism, Science in the Media, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Carl Sagan And Stephen Hawking Music Video
Posted on October 3, 2009 by afarensis, FCD
Lately I have tended to ignore posts on the latest “hot thing” generating buzz. However, this one is too good to pass up. I’m not really given to hero worship, but I make an exception for Sagan and as I have mentioned before, I really miss him and his elegant, insightful defense of science. A [...]
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An Open Letter to National Geographic
Posted on June 11, 2009 by afarensis, FCD
Dear National Geographic, I enjoy your site immensely and frequently link to the stories I find interesting. Consequently, it is with a certain amount of sadness that I have to tell you that there is no such thing as the missing link. Seriously, it is a major error to use terminology derived from the great [...]
Filed under: Paleoanthropology, Primates, Science in the Media | 4 Comments »
Reverse Evolution in Sticklebacks?
Posted on May 18, 2008 by afarensis, FCD
A number of people have emailed me a link to this story about “reverse evolution” in sticklebacks residing in Lake Washington. The basic story is that as Lake Washington was cleaned of its pollution sticklebacks went from being low plated to being completely plated. Partially, this was a response to heavier predation caused by increased [...]
Filed under: Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Science in the Media, Sticklebacks | Tagged: Three Spine Sticklebacks | 11 Comments »
Interesting Anthropology News and Other Stuff
Posted on March 22, 2008 by afarensis, FCD
The other day when I said blogging would be light I had the best of intentions, but like when Bill Dembski shouts”Waterloo” reality has conspired against me. The intertubewebnet thingy has thrown some interesting stories up into the cybersphere.
Filed under: Anthropology, Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Science in the Media | 1 Comment »
Bone Detectives
Posted on January 2, 2008 by afarensis, FCD
Kambiz mentions a new archaeology show on the Discovery Channel. The show is called The Bone Detectives and is scheduled to start airing on January 14th. The Discovery Channel has been airing “sneak peaks” and the episode I caught concerns Tihuanaco.
Filed under: Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Science in the Media | 2 Comments »
Well, That Was Anti-Climactic: Gorilla Ancestor Redux
Posted on August 23, 2007 by afarensis, FCD
As I mentioned here various and sundry media organizations are having a field day with the recently announced discovery of some fossil teeth belonging to a new species of Miocene ape. The find in itself is quite interesting, but:
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