Saturday, June 02, 2018

Enough with the Straws Already!

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Plastic straw bans are becoming popular. Malibu has one. So does the UK . People are becoming aware of the harm done by plastic waste in th...
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Saturday, March 07, 2015

You Don't See Me as Disabled? Awesome!

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I have a disability that's about as visible as they come. I've got the powerchair, the involuntary movements, a cerebral palsy accen...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

A Cliche That Kills

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Read any news article on fitness and two types of commenters almost inevitably appear. One is the person who feels compelled to give WAY too...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Why "No True Scotsman" is Not a Fallacy

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Hang around an atheist discussion on the Internet long enough and eventually you'll see a poster being accused of committing the dreade...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Science is Not a Game

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Janet Stemwedel at Doing Good Science has been blogging about Marcus Ross, the young earth creationist who earned a mainstream Ph.D. in pal...
Monday, October 24, 2011

An Ethical Ad Blocker?

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I just read George Monbiot's new essay about advertising and it got me thinking about how we might reduce ad exposure on the web. Like ...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

On Not Being a Fish

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There's a quote that's been making the rounds on the internet and elsewhere. Attributed to Albert Einstein, it says, “Everybody is a...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

What Am I Not Talking About?

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Ahhh, finals. The urge to waste valuable study time on random websites is almost irresistible... so I'm not resisting it. Instead, I giv...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Wally Schirra: 1923 - 2007

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Wally Schirra died today. I'm playing "Fire in the Sky" and "Hope Eyrie" in his honor.
Monday, March 26, 2007

Silly Article About Mushroom Foraging

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A promising-looking article about mushroom hunters in northern Californi a focuses mostly on the "dark side" of the activity -- fi...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

This Made My Evening

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Human solidarity and the power of international connections, both at their best. LA Koreans Angry at Anti-Jewish Cartoon - Forbes.com : ...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Oekologie Carnival

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Hello and welcome to the (slightly delayed) February 15, 2007 edition of oekologie, the carnival of ecology and environmental science. Let...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Climate Affects Volcanoes, Volcanoes Affect Climate...

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We know that volcanic eruptions can change the climate. The ash they throw up into the atmosphere blocks sunlight, cooling Earth. (The 1815 ...
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Monday, December 25, 2006

The Real Reason for "Happy Holidays"

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Thank you, Bill O'Reilly. For the last two years, the normally pleasant holiday season has been polluted by heated arguments over a purp...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Tribute to Carl Sagan

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Today is the ten-year anniversary of Carl Sagan's death and he is being memorialized in the blogosphere . Here is my own little contribu...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Imagining the Future We Want

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Chris Clarke of Creek Running North asked readers to describe what the world would look like "if our side won" . We're not ta...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Creek is Running Again!

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Creek Running North is back up after dealing with anonymous threats . What does the writer's dog have to say about it? "When I bru...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Threats Against a Blogger

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Creek Running North, to which I have linked several times, is down. Its owner, Chris Clarke, who is an environmentalist and progressive acti...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Rediscovering a Favorite Song

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I have a confession to make: I don't like Charlotte's Web . At least, I didn't care for it in the third grade, when my class rea...
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Friday Random Ten

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Emerald Rose , "Penny in the Well". A warm song about searching for fulfillment. Tim McGraw, "Tiny Dancer". I like this ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

What Does It Feel Like to be On Top of a Nuclear Test?

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Since North Korea claimed to have tested a nuclear weapon on Monday , geologists and policy wonks have been wondering why the tremor the det...