http://www.world-of-science-news.com World of Science News Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier today, I posted a review of The Animal Research War, which details the lengths that animal rights extremists are willing to go to in order to further their cause. Coincidently, the AP yesterday published a detailed article on the rise of animal rights extremism in the US. ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/more-on-animal-rights-extremism-the-scientific-activist/ Leah Ceccarelli in the Seattle Times: My own research seeks to reveal what makes today's manufactroversies work. First, I've discovered that modern-day sophists skillfully invoke values that are shared by the scientific community and the public, such as free speech, skeptical inquiry and the revolutionary force ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/on-manufactroversies-stranger-fruit/ Lawrence Solomon seems to have a bee in his bonnet about wikipedia. He really should be writing about the exciting ongoing arbcomm case; but presumably thats too complex for him and would actually require some thinking or research. Instead, having called me Next to Al Gore, William Connolley may be ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/recycled-sht-from-solomon-stoat/ Hello, Seattle! Look what just went up on Denny, near the Stewart Street intersection: Everyone might want to donate to this cause, too: a group is trying to buy ad space on London buses, saying "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life." Whew. We're getting uppity. ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/godless-advertising-pharyngula/ I've been outclassed. Every scientist in the world is a modest little mouse in comparison. All of you readers: humble, demure, and retiring. Ray Comfort has just compared himself favorably to Einstein, saying that he has made a discovery more important than E=mc2. He even has a painfully vainglorious animated ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/nobody-gets-to-call-me-arrogant-ever-again-pharyngula/ I have this friend from New York who, most of the time, speaks in a normal (that is to say, southern) accent that she's acquired as a result of being surrounded for so long by people who speak the King's English ('cause Elvis was a southerner). Occasionally, though, usually after ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/i-cant-understand-your-accent-so-keep-talking-mixing-memory/ Some days, my mailbox overflows with hilarity…like today. I got the new Roy Zimmerman CD! You should, too! It'll cheer any liberal to realize that you aren't alone, and you've got a theme song. But I also get other mail that's almost as funny, although not intentionally so. For some perverse ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/my-mailbox-is-a-funny-place-pharyngula/ A dead Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans drowned on a longline. Photo by Graham Robertson/Australian Antarctic Division From Birdlife International: BirdLife International presented the European Parliament with alarming data about the extent of seabird bycatch globally and in Europe yesterday. At the same time, BirdLife welcomed the ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/eu-fisherie-policy-and-seabird-slaughter-greg-ladens-blog/ Some new evidence suggesting that children aren't such bundles of joy: Sociologists are discovering that children may not make parents happier and that childless adults, contrary to popular stereotypes, may often be more contented than people with kids. Parents "definitely experienced more depression," says Robin Simon, a sociologist at Florida State University ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/kids-and-happiness-the-frontal-cortex/ Those of you in the greater DC area may be interested in the NIH Science in the Cinema Film Series at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring. Starting tomorrow, July 9, there will be free weekly screenings of films centered on various medical conditions - like Alzheimer's (Away from ... http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/science-in-the-cinema-bioephemera/