Monday, November 25, 2013

More Government Overreach: 23andMe Ordered To Cease and Desist

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The FDA has ordered the company 23andMe to stop providing its genetic overview and genealogy results package, which the agency describes as ...
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Texas State Board of Education Chooses Scientifically Accurate Biology Textbooks

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I was pointed by one of my readers to a news story on Right Wing Watch (a site I do not normally go to) that reports that the Texas State B...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

PhysOrg: Research Team Discovers "Immune Gene" in Neanderthals

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Neandertals once again appear to be playing a central role in modern human origins and continued viability.  From PhysOrg: A research grou...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To Texas...

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It looks like the Texas text book controversy is heating up again.  This time, ABC has noticed.  Will Weissert writes : Publishers submit...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

John Freshwater Loses Final Appeal

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The Raw Story is reporting that the Ohio Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision to allow the termination of Mt. Vernon science t...

Science Daily: Neanderthal Viruses Found in Modern Humans

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A year a half ago, I was sitting in a discussion group in the anthropology department at the University of Tennessee discussing the importan...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Slate Opines on Ken Ham, The Ark Encounter and Junk Bonds

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Mark Joseph Stern has a piece in Slate that examines the new financing plan that Ken Ham and the Ark Encounter (Ark-n-Park) are enacting to...
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

A Trailer For Noah

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A trailer has been released for the movie Noah .  There is still a good deal of apprehension about it, but it certainly looks like an expens...

Acts and Fiction: The ICR Does A Hatchet Job on Dmanisi Skull 5

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The ICR has, bluntly, called the description of the new Dmanisi skull 5 a fraud .   Lets find out why.  The conclusion, based on the descrip...
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Is The Republican Party Anti-Science?

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The Atlantic doesn't think so.  In an editorial called The Republican Party Isn't Really the Anti-Science Party , Mischa Fisher make...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

National Geographic Special on Denisova

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National Geographic is running a special report on the importance of the Denisova hominin for later human evolution.  The timing is curious...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

"Single Evolving Lineage of Early Homo"

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This was reported a month or so back.  A new fossil has been described from the site of Dmanisi, the 1.8 million year-old site in the Russia...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Charter Schools and Religious Entanglement

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Although certainly not a new topic (witness last year's Loch Ness Monster reports ), the problem of the funding of religious charter sch...

Back from Knee Surgery...

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I had knee surgery a little over a week ago and have been unable to do much other than watch football games. 
Monday, October 28, 2013

Jonathan Turley's Thoughts on COPE et al. VS. Kansas State Board of Education

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A Jonathan Turley notes, and as I reported a month back, a lawsuit has been filed in Kansas by Citizens for Objective Public Education agai...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Creation Museum To Get Allosaurus Skull

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The AP is reporting that the Creation Museum, in Petersburg, Kentucky, has become the recipient of a privately donated, almost complete (but...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Ohio Supreme Court to issue verdict soon in Freshwater case

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Here is a story that continues to have legs.  The Kenyon Collegian is reporting that the John Freshwater case, the teacher that was accused ...
Monday, October 21, 2013

More on "Noah" From the Hollywood Reporter

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Here is another article on the upcoming "Noah" film by Darren Aronovsky.  Aside from apprehensions and criticisms, we find that t...
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Stormy Seas For Darren Aronovsky and "Noah"

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Somehow I missed this.  Darren Aronovsky is directing a big-budget movie adaptation of Genesis 6-9 and is running into difficulties with the...

No Abominable Snowman After All?

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Todd Wood points in the direction of this story about the Yeti, or abominable snowman.  Alan Boyle of NBC Science writes: After a yearlon...