Cow and horse revellers in fight — It’s like the lion and the unicorn, only less dignified. (Thanks to danjite.)
Savage Chickens: One Panel Humor — (Thanks to willyumtx.)
Cassini might hold secrets to life on Saturn moon — Repurposing a deep space probe to search as life (but not as we know it). (Hat tip to Gizmodo.)
Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked — A cognitive scientist employs malevolent logic to define the dark side of the human psyche. Hmm. (Thanks to lt260.)
Carbon-Capturing Rock — Geologists discover that certain rock formations could sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Polar warming ’caused by humans’ — Dang. That liberal conspiracy is everywhere. Good thing Conservative America is on the job, protecting the world from inconvenient truths! (Thanks to lt260.)
When is a human human? — Bad Astronomy Blog on the politics of embryos. He deploys one of my favorite analogies in this discussion of Colorado’s Proposition 48, a bald-faced attempt to establish religious tenets in the state constitution. ry this thought experiment: you’re walking down the street, and you see a building on fire. You enter it to help anyone out, and see it’s a lab. On one side is a five-year-old boy, and the other is a petri dish clearly labeled as having a dozen fertilized eggs in it. You only have time to rescue the boy or the eggs. What do you do?
The Ghoul’s Glossary: the 2008 Election — Heh. Sample: Communist: 1. A believer in a graduated income tax (”Communists” include Adam Smith and 81% of professional American economists). 2. When modified by ‘Chinese’ : A supplier of retail goods to Walmart.
Question of the day: Why is a duck?
11/4/08
Body movement: 30 minutes on the stationary bike
Last night’s weigh-out: n/a
This morning’s weigh-in: 223.8
Currently reading: n/a
Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there.
