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Dancing with the Galaxies, Episode 1: Results
After filling in the votes of the people who didn't re-vote in the public poll, here's my final count for Round 1 ( Read more... ) -
Dancing with the Galaxies: Episode 1, Public Version
Since this was getting very few votes as a friends-only thing, I decided to make it public so people on my f-list can invite people not on my f-list to vote. Detailed results are viewable to only me ( Read more... ) -
You Play (and you have a working female reproductive system), You Pay
A disturbing story of the current state of conservative Christianity proves that "respect for life" is a misnomer. It goes like this: A man in Brazil rapes his 9-year-old barely-pubescent tween stepdaughter and impregnates her with twins. The mother arranges with doctors to abort the fetuses, under Brazil's legal exceptions to its abortion ban ( Read more... ) -
Learning and Culture ARE Biology
Treating culture and biology as two entirely separate and opposing forces is typical of the way we Westerners think. It tends to be very much a viewpoint held by readers of popular science, especially popular science of the mind ( Read more... ) -
To the new Prez. ('Bout time we had one.)
Nice speech, Barry ( Read more... ) -
More race stuff
Another rare public post. 'Cause we need to talk about this.
I wanted to comment on this post at Womanist Musings (a black Canadian feminist's sociopolitical blog), but my attempts to comment there haven't been working lately. I'm not sure why. But here's what I wanted to say ( Read more... ) -
Why black holes made by the LHC will not suck the earth in and will not kill us.
I'm going to make this public, 'cause I think it's something for the public to know.
So let's be real about black holes, shall we?
The LHC would produce collisions at a maximum energy of 1,150 tera-electron-volts - this is for collisions between two lead ions. I'm not sure if this is the total energy of both or if each has this energy. But let' ( Read more... )