“Map of Life” Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small

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Wow this is cool … (translation: “Oh here is something I like”) OK, so what exactly do we have here? Well, a team of researchers has embarked on a potentially groundbreaking project known as the Map of Life — an online database designed to catalog and locate every known plant and animal species on Earth, and is led … Read more

Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, quits in protest

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Winston Hide is the associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. There he specialises in the bioinformatics of genomic approaches to public health. He also used to be the associate editor of Genomics, a top tier peer-reviewed scientific journal, but no longer is because he … Read more

Giving to charity without donating money

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Now this one today is a bit of a departure for me, it’s not a rant but is instead a pointer to a very interesting article I spotted today in the UK’s Guardian.  We all have a very natural desire to help, but in these cash strapped times, many do not have the financial resources … Read more

Church sues ex-members – They had a blog criticizing their practices

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Today’s bit of religious insanity comes from a church pastor in Beaverton, Oregon. He is suing a mother and daughter for $500,000 because they gave the church — Beaverton Grace Bible Church — bad reviews online. Yikes!! Apparently the ex-members wrote negative Google reviews on-line, but they mysteriously vanished. One might wonder if God was … Read more

If you’re so keen on traditional marriage, make sure you know what the traditions of marriage actually are

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Nice article in the Telegraph today …Tom Chivers, their assistant comment editor points out that the folks who are stongly pushing the “traditional” marriage viewpoint might not appreciate what rests within the scope of that tradition. For example, we have Mitt Romney pushing the tradition of marriage being one man and one woman, yet … … … Read more

9/11 Truthers – Debunked by the BBC confronting them with the facts on a road trip

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The BBC took five 9/11 Truthers on a road trip and confronted them with the facts. They were each told to present the claim that they felt convinced them. In response, they were then introduced to the appropriate subject matter experts who proceeded to debunk the claim. So what actually happened and did any of … Read more