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Medicine

Dr. Charles at Body Worlds

A week ago, I wrote about my wife and my visiting Body Worlds at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Well, it looks as though another physician Dr. Charles has visited it as well and has some ideas comments about the exhibit.

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Entertainment/culture

Everyone’s evil, and so am I…sort of

It looks like everyone at ScienceBlogs is trying this quiz. Now that I have been completely assimilated into the collective, I cannot resist. So… You Are 22% Evil A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. How Evil Are […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism

The poo flies at the Kansas science standards FAQ

Duck, everyone! Matt (a.k.a. The Pooflinger) has found a PDF file containing a brand new FAQ about Kansas’s new science standards, the ones that purport to “teach the controversy” about evolution. While I’m on a roll about evolution (and, yes, the next installment of my Medicine and Evolution series should come by the end of […]

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Evolution

Science teachers in Arkansas self-censoring about evolution

Via Red State Rabble, I’ve become aware of an incredibly depressing story about science teachers in Arkansas explicitly censoring themselves when it comes to teaching evolution (the “e-word,” as they call it) or in geology class teaching that the earth is 4.5 billion years old: Teachers at his facility are forbidden to use the “e-word” […]

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Humor

Jack Chick’s own art turned against him

Heh. More people should do this to Jack Chick tracts. Click the image to see Jack’s own tricks turned against him. Here is the original cartoon by Jack Chick.