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deadman_932



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 05 2009,23:40   

Free science journals: (admittedly not very good ones, but , hey, they're free you cheap &@%#&)  http://www.meetscience.net/science_publications.html

http://www.biobooke.blogspot.com/ Offers full ebook-format (.pdf or .djvu) textbooks ranging from The Lehninger "Principles of Biochemistry" (Cox and Nelson)  to O'Reilly Books "Developing Bioinformational Computer Skills " for free download from Megaupload and Rapidshare sources. Pretend you're at the bookstore reading one, then delete the ebook when your conscience nags you for being a total thief, you *&%#@  

The two most-often-used formats for ebooks are .pdf and .djvu

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, small size, fast launch speed http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

For a free .djvu reader:
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 12 2009,12:09   

Molecule by molecule, mutation by mutation with full selection

Behe and Dembski have both made famous demands for what they would accept at an evolutionary explanation;

Jamie T. Bridgham, Eric A. Ortlund & Joseph W. Thornton
“An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution” Nature Vol 461|24 September 2009

So, I guess they will become good Darwinists now.

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 12 2009,13:09   

Never assume that Behe will accept reality:

http://www.arn.org/blogs...._dollo_

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 12 2009,14:27   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Oct. 12 2009,11:09)
Never assume that Behe will accept reality:

http://www.arn.org/blogs...._dollo_

Gosh! Are you as schocked and surprised as I am!!!1!1!111eleven

(Thanks for the link).

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 13 2009,09:51   

Vegetarian spider found in Costa Rica. This must be a spider species that is unchanged since before the Fall!

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 13 2009,15:21   

Really. Given how spiders digest their food, I wouldn't have expected that. Interesting.

  
ppb



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2009,13:43   

Another gap is filled.  Darwinopterus modularis is another of those transitional forms that creationists prefer to remain ignorant about.  It fits nicely between between earlier non-pterodactyloids and later pterodactyloids.

It's amazing what you can find if you actually go out and do some science.

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2009,17:14   

Quote (ppb @ Oct. 14 2009,11:43)
Another gap is filled.  Darwinopterus modularis is another of those transitional forms that creationists prefer to remain ignorant about.  It fits nicely between between earlier non-pterodactyloids and later pterodactyloids.

It's amazing what you can find if you actually go out and do some science.

No, no!

It is now two gaps taht need to be filed. Science just took a step backwards.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2009,18:13   

Bee sides, those pterodactyloids still didn't tern into birds!

  
sledgehammer



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2009,18:32   

Sparrow us your puns. I don't swallow it.

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Reed



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2009,18:46   

Quote (ppb @ Oct. 14 2009,11:43)
Another gap is filled.  Darwinopterus modularis is another of those transitional forms that creationists prefer to remain ignorant about.  It fits nicely between between earlier non-pterodactyloids and later pterodactyloids.

What will the creationists say this time ?

  
JLT



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2009,03:42   

Quote (Dr.GH @ Oct. 12 2009,18:09)
Molecule by molecule, mutation by mutation with full selection

Behe and Dembski have both made famous demands for what they would accept at an evolutionary explanation;

Jamie T. Bridgham, Eric A. Ortlund & Joseph W. Thornton
“An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution” Nature Vol 461|24 September 2009

So, I guess they will become good Darwinists now.

Thornton responds to Behe's take on his work.

A very good take-down of Behe that shows not only how Behe misrepresents Thornton's current work but also why Behe (and ID) suck in general.

 
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Finally, Behe erroneously equates “evolving non-deterministically” with “impossible to evolve.”  He supposes that if each of a set of specific evolutionary outcomes has a low probability, then none will evolve.  This is like saying that, because the probability was vanishingly small that the 1996 Yankees would finish 92-70 with 871 runs scored and 787 allowed and then win the World Series in six games over Atlanta, the fact that all this occurred means it must have been willed by God.


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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2009,11:17   

Quote (JLT @ Oct. 17 2009,01:42)
Thornton responds to Behe's take on his work.

A very good take-down of Behe that shows not only how Behe misrepresents Thornton's current work but also why Behe (and ID) suck in general.

Thanks for the link.

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OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2009,08:14   

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091016121827.htm  Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology

Interesting article about a single deletion event that removed the ability of the fish to see UV light.

The only problem with this article is that it's ripe for being misinterpretted.  

"The researchers found that adaptive changes occur by a small number of amino acid substitutions, but most substitutions do not lead to functional changes."

and

"Evolutionary biology is filled with arguments that are misleading, at best," Yokoyama says. "To make a strong case for the mechanisms of natural selection, you have to connect changes in specific molecules with changes in phenotypes, and then you have to connect these changes to the living environment."

I predict great amounts of quote mining from this article.

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Reed



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2009,17:48   

Ho hum 32 more exoplanets. This proves we are the special creation of god unspecified telic entity, right ?

  
OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2009,19:31   

Quote (Reed @ Oct. 19 2009,17:48)
Ho hum 32 more exoplanets. This proves we are the special creation of god unspecified telic entity, right ?

I'm actually really curious as to what happens when we find life on other planets.

I especially want to see us meet an intelligent life form on another planet, ask it read the Bible, then laugh it's ass off and everything humans have done to each other in the name of some unknowable entity that is omni-everything.  (This, BTW, doesn't have to be directed at the Bible, all holy texts I can think of right off the top of my head are included here).

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2009,19:50   

Quote (OgreMkV @ Oct. 19 2009,20:31)
Quote (Reed @ Oct. 19 2009,17:48)
Ho hum 32 more exoplanets. This proves we are the special creation of god unspecified telic entity, right ?

I'm actually really curious as to what happens when we find life on other planets.

I especially want to see us meet an intelligent life form on another planet, ask it read the Bible, then laugh it's ass off and everything humans have done to each other in the name of some unknowable entity that is omni-everything.  (This, BTW, doesn't have to be directed at the Bible, all holy texts I can think of right off the top of my head are included here).

They'll probably quarantine our planet until the infection passes.

ETA: ...unless they already have, that is.

Edited by Lou FCD on Oct. 19 2009,20:51

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2009,09:58   

We'll be lucky if they aren't spreading their own infection.

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FrankH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2009,10:10   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Oct. 20 2009,09:58)
We'll be lucky if they aren't spreading their own infection.

Personally, I'm not so sure they'll be "much better" than us.

I have a feeling that a certain amount of arrogance and ignorance are going to be a defining feature of technological intelligences.

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2009,21:03   

Nasty-Big Orb Weaving Spider discovered.

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Description: Female paratype: Total length 39.7. Prosoma 14.3 long, 10.9 wide, 8.7 high at head region; dark red-black. High head region, low thoracic region. Carapace densely covered with thin white hairs; mid-carapace humps large and rounded. Carapace lateral edge at thoracic region ridged. Sternum 6.9 long, 5.5 wide, widest anteriorly, with paired sternal humps adjacent to coxae 1–4, the third paired hump enlarged; a large unpaired projection on anterior sternum. Sternum dark red-brown (in alcohol) with a small yellow spot at each paired hump. Labium black, yellow frontally and medially. Maxillae black, medially white. Clypeus height 1.25. Legs and palp unicolor dark red (in alcohol). Leg formula 1, 2, 4, 3. Coxae 3 and 4 with a conspicuous ventral bulge. Femora with sparse warts. Tibiae 1, 2 and 4 with a conspicuous distal tuft of setae. Leg I length 75.4 (femur 21.7, patella 5.1, tibia 18.9, metatarsus 25.4, tarsus 4.3). Opisthosoma massive, widest anteriorly, 27.3 long, 12.4 wide (frontally), 12.7 high, extended 4.9 beyond spinnerets. Dorsum (in ethanol) brown with a broad anterior yellow notched pattern, a mid-posterior paired and a caudal unpaired yellow patch; lateral opisthosoma brown with yellow spots and stripes; venter brown, with two irregularly shaped conspicuous yellow transverse bands. Epigynum a protruding sclerotized area and a posterior transverse plate with slit-like, medially converging copulatory openings (Fig. 2C–D). Round spermathecae juxtaposed medially. Copulatory ducts complex and long, fertilization ducts massive.


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JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 21 2009,11:49   

Quote (Lou FCD @ Oct. 20 2009,19:03)
Total length 39.7

Millimetres.  Phew.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 21 2009,13:02   

That was only millimeters? Shucks, that makes it only around half the length of finger.

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 22 2009,20:28   

Kicking the privileged planet

http://media4.obspm.fr/exoplanets/base/carte3d.php

(see how many are in habitable zones)

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deadman_932



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 24 2009,05:11   

For people that like to keep learning, lots of universities and colleges offer free courses, assignments, and lectures over the intertubes, using streaming video, podcasts, and downloadable lecture notes.

A collection of free online class courses ranging from physics to nursing, chemistry, theology, geology, etc:
http://oedb.org/library....nything

MIT offers a load of courses online (as many as 1,800), from Aeronautics to Writing:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

UCLA: http://www.bruincast.ucla.edu/

U.C. Berkeley has ...I dunno, maybe 50 classes available: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

U.C. Irvine http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/ has free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials, often including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams in subjects ranging from business to physical and social sciences. There's also free online tutorial services.

Stanford allows you to download podcast courses, faculty lectures, interviews using iTunes for Mac or PC, which you can burn to CD. http://itunes.stanford.edu/

Yale also uses iTunes: http://opa.yale.edu/netcasts.aspx

Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health has online coursework here: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
and includes a listing of major Open Coursework Consortium Colleges and Universities here:  http://ocw.jhsph.edu/otherocw.cfm
( Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, Utah, Notre Dame )

Other free sites can be found here:
http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/free-online-college-courses/#
http://www.docnmail.com/
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/2_Top_10_University_Podcasts.php
http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/best-webcasts-podcasts/

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Kattarina98



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 24 2009,05:43   

Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Oct. 13 2009,09:51)
Vegetarian spider found in Costa Rica. This must be a spider species that is unchanged since before the Fall!

The latest issue of Creation magazine ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOp_z5zPaq0

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 24 2009,09:07   

Quote (Kattarina98 @ Oct. 24 2009,05:43)
Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Oct. 13 2009,09:51)
Vegetarian spider found in Costa Rica. This must be a spider species that is unchanged since before the Fall!

The latest issue of Creation magazine ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOp_z5zPaq0

That's an outrage! Do I need to sue to recover my "intellectual" property rights?

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JLT



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2009,14:24   

Quote (JLT @ Oct. 17 2009,09:42)
   
Quote (Dr.GH @ Oct. 12 2009,18:09)
Molecule by molecule, mutation by mutation with full selection

Behe and Dembski have both made famous demands for what they would accept at an evolutionary explanation;

Jamie T. Bridgham, Eric A. Ortlund & Joseph W. Thornton
“An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution” Nature Vol 461|24 September 2009

So, I guess they will become good Darwinists now.

Thornton responds to Behe's take on his work.

A very good take-down of Behe that shows not only how Behe misrepresents Thornton's current work but also why Behe (and ID) suck in general.

     
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Finally, Behe erroneously equates “evolving non-deterministically” with “impossible to evolve.”  He supposes that if each of a set of specific evolutionary outcomes has a low probability, then none will evolve.  This is like saying that, because the probability was vanishingly small that the 1996 Yankees would finish 92-70 with 871 runs scored and 787 allowed and then win the World Series in six games over Atlanta, the fact that all this occurred means it must have been willed by God.

And now Behe responds to Thornton's response to Behe's reaction to Thornton's work.... in several posts!
I'm soo excited. More TARD to come!

ETA: and tard it is, here and here.

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bfish



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2009,23:15   

Well..... um....... it's not squirrels or horses, but......

um......

*runs away*

  
bfish



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2009,23:19   

Oh no they di'n't!

I can't believe they put a music soundtrack with the video. I can't believe they HAD a video.

  
Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 29 2009,09:33   

Quote (bfish @ Oct. 28 2009,21:19)
Oh no they di'n't!

I can't believe they put a music soundtrack with the video. I can't believe they HAD a video.

She might be licking her vagina. Great sound track though. Maybe certain porno experts can tell us the original source.

Back in the late '70s I helped data code Eric Phoebus's dissertation videos of monkey's fucking. Hours and hours and hours of monkey fuck video.

Edited by Dr.GH on Oct. 29 2009,07:36

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