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Says Dawkins: (Oh yes and apologies for the long cut and paste, but Dawkin's hit a grand slam with this one, with his usual heaping tablespoon of snark)Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact Q. Texas governor and GOP candidate Rick Perry, at a campaign event this week, told a...

So the organization itself does good work, and actually needs to do a better job at educating the general public about the need for blood donations. But if you go to their website, and read their section "Find out what your blood type says about you", you will come away with anything but...

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands | The Lookout - Yahoo! NewsPay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of...

This is interesting news, apparently this pharmaceutical has the only license in the US to produce the pentobarbitol sodium injection that is used in the three drug lethal injection cocktail. On July 1, 2011, Danish pharmaceutical Lundbeck announced that they would be changing their end use...

Oh jeez, another shooting. Eight dead, including gunman, in Ohio shooting spree - CNN.com Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The...

‪Water Flows Discovered on Mars‬‏ - YouTube

This is likely to raise the ire of our forum xenophobes. Brain-drain plugged, Stephen Harper says | Posted | National PostHAMILTON, ONT. — The “brain drain,” once decried by academics and pundits who saw the flight of the brightest Canadians in industry, research and medicine to higher...

Early Earth may have had two moons : Nature NewsEarth once had two moons, which merged in a slow-motion collision that took several hours to complete, researchers propose in Nature today. Both satellites would have formed from debris that was ejected when a Mars-size protoplanet smacked into...

and into a related group called Deinonychosauria. As of right now, Archaeopteryx is in a branch called the Avialae, which also includes our modern birds. But a new study has given convincing evidence for removal of Archaeopteryx from Avialae to placement in the Deinonychosauria infraorder. This...

With the survey being voluntary, and distributed to more households, I'm curious who here has received a package in the mail, and who has completed it.

Gawker's John Cook has unearthed a White House memo from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Roger Ailes hand writing all over it, detailing the plans to put the GOP talking points on the news. Shocking, I know. The Ailes Files

CBC.ca Player My thesis adviser and my agricultural ecosystems professor explaining the rationale for camolina inclusion in salmonid diets. In my nutrition class, we had looked at camlina, as well as some canola meals as partial and full replacements for fish meal and fish oil. You can see...

Report: Private Prisons Love Mass Incarceration, And Want Politicians To Love It Too | TPMMuckrakerPrivate prison companies have helped fuel government policies which lead to an increase in prison population and boost their profits, according to a recent report. The private prison...

A while back I posted a thread about biotechnology applications which are being used right now to help us, for example to identify strains of bacteria such as the one which caused so much havoc in Germany and other parts of Europe. The work in that case involved some gene sequencing to determine...

Can asbestos be used “safely”? - Science-ish - Macleans.ca This week talks are taking place in Geneva, in the latest round of the Rotterdam Convention, a program in the UN through which the parties involved ban pesticides and industrial chemicals, or place restrictions due to the health and...

Well, not really a shocking finding. The majority of science related stories are now written by reporters without any formal training in science. Financial difficulties have meant cut backs, and science reporting is kind of like art and music classes that get cut from tight education budgets...

Court Holds Prosecutor Personally Liable for Unconstitutional Search of Student Who Created a Parody Newsletter - FIRE After the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reaffirmed that "speech, such as parody and rhetorical hyperbole, which cannot reasonably be taken as stating...

Andem, is there any way we could have boolean searches when using the forums search function? Having only the or operator is not optimal for searching, in my experience.

How secure do you feel about making donations to public parties? The answer may change after today. Yesterday, hackers attacked the Conservative Party of Canada's webpage, announcing that Prime Minister Harper had been airlifted to a Toronto area hospital after choking on a hashbrown. Media...

Kind of surprised that there isn't a thread about this already, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong sub-forum... Anyways, last night officials announced that the most likely source of this E. coli outbreak is from bean sprouts grown in Germany, which is a huge embarrassment for Germany after...