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Alive, if Unwell
I'm home from my vacation and will be posting again soon. My thoughts on the Atheist Alliance International conference in Iceland will appear on the Brights forums shortly (hopefully), and then I'll get to work on summarising my America Experience (which will be friends-locked). At the moment, I'm mostly trying not to cough my lungs up.
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May the 25th
Today was ascension day, a national holiday in secular Sweden. I took the liberty to celebrate a different fictional event. Thanks willocwen for the icon.
In memory of the revolution!
All the little angels ascend up to Heaven
All the little angels ascend up on high
Which end up?
Ascend up
Which end up?
Ascend up
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Invasive Ants and Supercolonies
Felicia E. M. Gilljam
Ethology 10 credits, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 2006
The eusociality of ants is likely a big contributor to their widespread success around the globe. What could compete with such large groups of coordinated individuals? Possibly, only other ants are up to the task. Extensive polygyny, where each ( Read more... ) -
Vacation -06
I am going to the US this summer. I have posted about this in a friends only entry, but I figure I could leave it open to anyone who stumbles across this journal to leave suggestions. I will arrive in New York in the beginning of June and will spend about five days there. I will fly home from San Fransisco at the end of June. The only places so far ( Read more... ) -
Douglas Adams at Digital Biota 2
Sometimes when I need cheering up I read this speech that Douglas Adams made at Digital Biota 2 back in 1998. In it he spoke of the four ages of sand, how science has progressed throughout the ages. And about religion's unassailable ideas.
Now there are all sorts of entities we are also aware of, as well as particles, forces, tables, chairs, rocks ( Read more... ) -
Marriage, Institutionalised Jealousy?
I'm currently (still) reading Why We Get Sick - The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams. The book is some ten years old but still incredibly interesting, making many lucid points about how our bodies and minds work in the face of illness.
Not only dealing with infections, cancer and genetic disorders, they ( Read more... ) -
ID and the Open-minded Mormon
As a faithful reader of Schlock Mercenary I tend to read creator Howard Tayler's open letters and blogs. Howard Tayler is a full-time cartoonist living in Orem, Utah with his wife and kids, and unsurprisingly, he's a Latter-Day Saint. If you've read Schlock you know there's not one sign of this in his comic - it is utterly secular. In fact, on ( Read more... ) -
Mirror Neurons and Autism
There's a very interesting article on mirror neurons featured on Edge's front page at the moment.
/.../ cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle ("pain neurons"), will also fire when the patient watches another patient being poked. The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier ( Read more... )