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By: Legless Lizard Pet

Legless Lizard Pet — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:15 +0000

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By: Acilius

Acilius — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:57:35 +0000

@Maggie: Gosh, thank you. That’s very select company. I’d suggest one addition, Ed Yong’s Not Eaxctly Rocket Science. It covers a wide variety of fields, including some that are similar to (but not exactly the same as) rocket science.

By: Maggie Jochild

Maggie Jochild — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:39:53 +0000

For those of us who either are geeks or tend to swoon in their presence, I’m always looking for blogs with good science-based reading that doesn’t demand advanced study in that discipline. Here’s the ones (in a myriad of fields) that I check out weekly — I can’t give you links because of the limit here, you’ll have to google ‘em:

Acilius’s own Panther Red, of course (The iron blog of rationality)
Pharyngula
LanguageHat
PLoS One (Accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science)
GeoCurrents Blog
Language Log
Strange Maps
LaVida Locavore
Polyglot Vegetarian (Grazing through the world of words)
XKCD
and Echidne of the Snakes when she reports on a recently conducted study and dissects the incorrect popular interpretation of what it means

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:39 +0000

She called this evening and talked to him a little. I think he was totally confused! I don’t think his reasoning skills/language comprehension is such that he understands the “coming back later by which I mean in 10 days” concept….

By: Maggie Jochild

Maggie Jochild — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:50:48 +0000

I keep thinking about how in Sim City, to encourage high tech industry instead of dirty factories, there’s a cheat code you can type in: NERDZ ROOL.

Yes, I use cheat codes for some games. will you respect me in the morning?

Kat, good luck with the devilishly handsome fellow. Does he have enough vocabulary, you think, to understand being told she’s coming back — I can’t remember at this instant where your mom has gone or if she is in a place to call him with reassurance. Or maybe that would frustrate him even more.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:18:55 +0000

Mythbusters! Bones! Criminal Minds! The kid in Jurassic Park (but only the movie, in the book the boy got to be the nerd….)! Yay, nerd girls on TV….

Maggie likely knows this already, but I’m in charge of my mother’s African Gray parrot, Dorian, for 10 days. I’m kind of stressed. He’s seriously pissed off about being stuck in a small cage in a strange place, and is in a bad mood. This morning I was 10 minutes late for work because the little booger refused to go back in his cage.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:22 +0000

Have the Brits that read this blog seen the new series on BBC4 about feminism? The first episode is repeated tonight and is on iPlayer should you miss it.

Here’s the spiel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rbkkp

It includes interviews with Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer and Marilyn French. It’s made by Vanessa Engle.

By: Maggie Jochild

Maggie Jochild — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:51:58 +0000

WONDERFUL that Mentor now has a theme song! Belated thx, Mentor.

By: Bechadelic1

Bechadelic1 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:19:31 +0000

@ –MC # 169
Nice! That’s a clever and funny rhyme And so apt for our world wide web slinging Mentor!

By: --MC

--MC — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:30 +0000

Mentor, Mentor, friendly neighborhood Mentor
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