Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
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Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists - Times Online
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Going Deep - washingtonpost.com
The new Sant Ocian Hall of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy - Los Angeles Times
Palin apparently told a left-wing Alaska blogger that she believed that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time" back in 1997. Via BoingBoing
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Steven Weinberg, "Without God," The New York Review of Books 55/14 (Sept. 25, 2008)
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What Happens When We Die? - TIME
I'm curious about this.
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Science: Is Morality Natural? | Newsweek Health for Life | Newsweek.com
Some research on the connections between the "hard wiring" of our brains and our ideas about what's moral and immoral. It's worth reading the whole thing. This is the story Caitlin M. brought (to the 10 a.m. section) on Thursday. Archival link: http://www.webcitation.org/5awvsJvqF
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Beatles music more than 'auditory cheesecake', scientists find - Telegraph
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:: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and 'Rise of Slime' ::
Jeremy Jackson talks about the "rise of slime" in the world's oceans -- toxic bacteria, jellyfish, algal blooms, et cetera.
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times
As we dump more and more nitrogen and CO2 into the oceans, conditions of eutrophia and hypoxia develop. The resulting enormous algal blooms kill coral reefs and starve fish. This is the "rise of slime," as one scientist puts it.
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Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan | LiveScience
An interesting piece of research showing that traditional beliefs in the Yeti have been disappearing -- or, more precisely, are more and more often linked with backwardness and ignorance -- with modernization, even in relatively remote areas of Bhutan.
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Monsters, Ghosts and Gods: Why We Believe | LiveScience
This is not a bad article, but it drives me crazy that the writer never consulted a specialist in religion. The quoted "scientific" explanations for ancient religious beliefs were basically debunked by research several generations ago. This is how bad the academic study of religion looks to the rest of the world, I guess.
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Edge
Seems genuinely good, if some of the content is maybe a little breathless (like, Omni Magazine style).
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Jazz improvisation and the brain: new research studies spontaneous creativity and brain activity
A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins and NIH used fMRI equipment to study what goes on in the brains of musicians who are perfoming spontaneous musical improvisation. The layman's summary doesn't say all that much, but there's a link to PLoS.
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