Monthly Archives: June 2006

Science Fairs and Intellectual Honesty

Posted on June 24, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

From the archives, here’s a post about high school science fairs (originally published Jan. 31, 2005).
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Words as Weapons

Posted on June 23, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’m away at the Evolution 2006 Meeting, I’ll leave you with some posts from the archive of the Mad Biologist (Intelligent Designer, I love this scheduled post thingee). This one is about the misuse of language by creationists (originally published Feb. 9, 2005).
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Off to Evolution 2006

Posted on June 23, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Thanks to the superpowers of the Mighty Seed Blog Engine, I’m able to post this while simultaneously driving to the Evolution 2006 meeting. Hopefully, I’ll run into RPM and Carl Zimmer there. It’s going to be very weird: I spent … Continue reading →

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What Makes a Good Science Teacher

Posted on June 22, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Our Seed Overlords ask: What makes a good science teacher?… Lots of other ScienceBloggers have given really good answers to this, so I’ll just add one more thing. A good teacher has to know what students don’t know. When I … Continue reading →

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Suitable Madness from driftglass

Posted on June 22, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

driftglass takes up a topic near and dear to my heart because it’s a cancer that still corrodes and corrupts the U.S.: the use of hate-mongering by the Right to gain and keep political power. And you thought I was … Continue reading →

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A Carnival of Liberals

Posted on June 21, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Lotsa liberal madness at the most recent installment of the Carnival of Liberals. My first ever post at that blog carnival.

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Antibiotics, Creationism, and Evolution

Posted on June 21, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

I have to admit that creationists are a creative bunch, if not accurate. From the files of the Mad Biologist comes this post about a creationist explanation of antibiotic resistance. It’s pretty remarkable. (Originally published April 18, 2005)
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Microbiology Is Getting Hammered…

Posted on June 20, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

…when it comes to funding and resources. And this will have serious ramifications for your health. In talking to a hospital clinical microbiologist today, he told me that microbiology labs in hospitals and states are suffering from two problems.

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Some Thoughts on the Internet ‘Progressives’

Posted on June 19, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve always had a problem with the internet ‘progressives.’ I have never liked the term progressive, particularly since I’m not ashamed to call myself a liberal (here’s one reason why). I haven’t blogged much about the YearlyKos convention and ensuing controversy (being a lefty blogger, albeit a small one, I suppose I am the actual subject matter of much of that commentary). But a couple of posts have really made it clear to me why I’m not excited at all by the internet progressives.
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Thank You PZ

Posted on June 18, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

In what I think is the only way to cope with the Blond Banshee (aka the Coultergeist), PZ writes (italics mine): Like I said, I’m not going to take this trip apart sentence by sentence, even though I could, given … Continue reading →

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