There’s been a bit of news about banana man releasing a copy of “Origin of the Species” with his “special” christian/ID introduction (and a few missing chapters that might interfere with his crafy introduction). Ignore the man. Instead of reading his crappy version go help yourself to all the Darwin goodness (and badness… he was a human after all ) you want at the Darwin online web site.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#origin

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I usually avoid memes, but I couldn’t resist. -epe

We re-watched “From the Earth to the Moon” today. Epe and I tend to pay the most attention to the episodes that show the engineers working which shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone ;). I generally feel the same way after we finish watching it. A little sad, a little depressed, but mostly I feel disappointed that we have let so much time slip by between then and now with no repeat of these great journeys.

To be clear I’m not discounting the incredible work and science that has gone on with the probes, landers, gritty raw science!!, hubble, and ISS work that has gone on in the interim (including the massive earth side parts of those projects), I love it and hit the NASA sites regularly for updates. Partly because the nerd/sci-fi in me needs to keep up with the technology, and partly because it feels so good to see progress in building the door to the rest of the universe.

(we should be in outerspace, eff the non believers, teleport me off this rock rant deleted)

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I’ve said fuck 37 times today (38) so far. Better get an rss feed reader or this is never going to work.

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I know this is a few days old, but does this strike anyone else as ridiculous? Unless your family planning involves the phrase “I’m planning to have children,” this seems almost oxymoronic. I guess the main priority of the federal Office of Population Affairs will be to increase the population. Here’s a real peach of a quote from the article regarding ‘A Woman’s Concern’, the Christian non-profit of which Keroack is the medical director: “And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.” Nice assumption–that if people stop using contraception, they will automatically switch to abstinence.