Now the dust is starting to clear…
I’ve sorted out some of the behind the scenes woes with the WP 3.0 upgrade. They actually put out an update last night to 3.0.1 […]
Month: July 2010
4,000 year-old brain surgery?
An archaeologist from from Ankara University, Fikri Kulako lu, reports the discovery of a 4,000 year old skeletonwhich has evidence of “a successful brain operation” in […]
Dead Sea Scrolls: were the authors Jewish or Jewish?
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 caves near Qumran on the Dead Sea by a Bedouin shepherd. Stored for nearly 2 millennia in clay jars or pots, […]
Okay… a little sawdust here and there…
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been working on the blog behind the scenes the last few days where I can get an hour or so from […]
The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy
I am not responsible for any keyboards for those who tried reading this with their morning hot cup of joe! If you’ve never visited xkcd, […]
Book Review: The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia
The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia: Paleoenvironments, Prehistory and Genetics (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology). Michael D. Petraglia and Jeffrey I. Rose, eds. The Netherlands: […]
Independence Day: Let Freedom Ring
In a nation so divided, we often forget where true freedom comes from: the human spirit and the hearts and minds of men and women […]
Fireworks we can do without. But wow.
In the summer of 1962 (I was probably a gleam in my Dad’s eye, but my mom was still in high school!), the rocket’s red […]
Review: Beyond The Hoax
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture, by Alan Sokal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-956183-4, 465 pp. Paper $24.95. The “Hoax” in […]