Defacing Darwin (also, bananas)
The first 40 seconds or so are great.Also, I would like to point out Eugenie Scott's article about Ray in USA Today, which ends on an inside joke. (Eugenie, call me!)Both of these come from Skepchick. The video via Rebecca, the second via Jen.HJ (off to class to piss on Oprah's reputation!)

Bingeth returneth to St. Louiseth
Conference in town next week. Gonna be in St. Louis. There seems to be a growing group of skeptical types there. Wanna party?HJ

End of the day...
I am five papers away from being officially caught up. Just a few days before student podcasts are due. And I have some serious writing to do for a few days. I would normally just take a section of my dissertation, The Mating Habits of the Lesser Red Squirrel (With Illustrations!), and rework some of it for my upcoming conference, but I'm not happy with anything that I wrote in the relevant chapter. An important reason to go to this conference is that I will be able to catch up with a lot of people who are attending, including my mentor and some chums who graduated a year or two ahead of me.OK, I can snip some of the dissertation and put it in the paper. But I am still so f

Dave Daubenmire: Horse's Pizzle
I have received my first commission here. It's a special request going out Richard. It has to do with Dave Daubenmire. You know, former coach, current useless self-promoting media whore? Well, Daubenmire testified in the hearing of John "I Actually Branded Crosses into My Students" Freshwater, an Ohio science teacher that Daubenmire is helping get banned from teaching ever again. Thanks, Dave!I should mention that this is not because Daubenmire has had a moment of clarity or anything, but because he is loud, impolitic and as thick as a concrete elephant. I caught the familiar whiff of ex-Coach Daubenmire (WD40 and B.O.) downwind from Panda

Yes, it's the morning of quickie posts
A student sent me this, and I love it.http://www.quantumjumping.com/lp/esp-intuition-1?sr=1Now get out there and manifest endless abundance, sucker! Thanks for visiting, and happy jumping!HJ