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Month: September 2008

Antievolution Law and Politics 

Who’s Fanti’s Coach, I Wonder?

2008/09/302008/09/30 Wesley R. Elsberry Brunswick County School Board, deceptionists, strengths and weaknesses

Remember the Brunswick County (North Carolina) School Board and their stated intention to see about inserting creationism into the science

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Law and Politics Media 

Palin and the Case of the Dropping Polls

2008/09/29 Wesley R. Elsberry numeracy, polling, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin’s approval rating dropped recently. How much? Well, that may be a matter of some discussion. The Political Wire

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Antievolution Education Science 

Frontiers of Science Workshop

2008/09/29 Wesley R. Elsberry avida-ed, clergy letter project, evolutionary science, rob pennock, science education, teachers

Last Saturday, there was a “Frontiers of Science” workshop led by Rob Pennock. This was part of a series of

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

The State of North Carolina Education Folks Know History

2008/09/18 Wesley R. Elsberry creationism, north carolina, school board

Not long following the Brunswick County School Board announcing plans to get intimate with creationism, there is a report that

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Media Science Wildlife 

Dolphin Biopsy Study Hits the Press

2008/09/18 Wesley R. Elsberry biopsy, dolphins, genetics

I suspect an editor at the Miami Herald didn’t get the picture from Cammy Clark’s report on Jennifer Lewis’s research

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Medical 

Collecting More OAS Information

2008/09/17 Wesley R. Elsberry cpap, OAS, oral appliances, sleep apnea

Given the comment on my earlier thread pointing out a surgical alternative to use of CPAP machinery, I’ve been doing

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Family General Photography 

Inside the Trailer, Doing a 360

2008/09/172008/09/21 Wesley R. Elsberry for sale, panorama, panorama head, trailer, travel, van

A panorama, that is. Given the pitiful wages that postdocs and adjunct faculty earn, the debt accrued through grad school

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Antievolution Law and Politics Media 

Another School Board Poised to Make a Mistake

2008/09/162008/09/17 Wesley R. Elsberry Brunswick County School Board, creationism, lawsuit

A report in the Wilmington (NC) Star-News recounts interaction at the meeting of the Brunswick County School Board. It’s the

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Law and Politics Medicine 

A Critique of the McCain Health Insurance Plan

2008/09/162008/09/16 Wesley R. Elsberry health care policies, insurance, John McCain

A press release points out a review of the likely effects of the plan proposed by John McCain to change

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Medical 

My Next Medical Challenge

2008/09/152008/09/15 Wesley R. Elsberry cpap, eeg, ekg, emg sleep study, hyponea, sleep apnea

I shared a room with a colleague at the GECCO 2008 conference, and my snoring disturbed him. I brought this

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Computation Science 

Evolutionary Computation and Astronomy

2008/09/12 Wesley R. Elsberry astronomy, evolutionary computation, hypothesis generation

Back in 1998, I was suggesting the use of evolutionary computation to investigate alternative hypotheses concerning data about foraging in

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Science 

Computational Chemistry and … Evolution?

2008/09/11 Wesley R. Elsberry chemistry, enzymes, evolution

Research at Florida State University in computational chemistry has uncovered evidence that an enzyme that initiates processes involving DNA and

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General Medicine 

An Example of a Difficult Patient

2008/09/10 Wesley R. Elsberry diagnosis, difficult patients, health care policies, patient advocacy

Michelle Mayer had to become a difficult patient to secure adequate health care for a misdiagnosed illness that actually turned

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Acoustics Science Wildlife 

A Study on Whistles — And Only Whistles

2008/09/09 Wesley R. Elsberry behavior, bioacoustics, bottlenose dolphins, clicks, whistles

There’s a study in the Journal of Comparative Psychology that comes somewhat up my alley. Quick, Nicola J. and Vincent

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Law and Politics 

The Tammy Bruce Factor

2008/09/082008/09/07 Wesley R. Elsberry feminism, presidential campaign, Sarah Palin

Tammy Bruce has an op-ed piece plumping for Sarah Palin, “A feminist’s argument for McCain’s VP”. Bruce apparently likes a

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Law and Politics 

“Victory in Iraq” — What Does that Mean?

2008/09/052008/09/05 Wesley R. Elsberry faux patriotism, Iraq war, presidential campaign, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention made a couple of mentions of a concept of victory in Iraq

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Photography 

Good News on Equipment Malfunction

2008/09/05 Wesley R. Elsberry canon, service, sticky iris on S2 IS

Early in the summer, I noted a problem with my Canon S2 IS camera. It would intermittently show a black

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General 

A Thirty-Year Interval

2008/09/052008/09/09 Wesley R. Elsberry nostalgia, reunions, Santa Fe High School

Back in high school (Santa Fe Catholic Regional High School, Lakeland, FL), I went to many of the football games

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General Law and Politics Wildlife 

Hawk-Killing Golfer Receives Sentence

2008/09/03 Wesley R. Elsberry hawk-killing golfers, Tripp Isenhour

Pro golfer Tripp Isenhour pled nolo contendere on the charges filed against him in the killing of a red-shouldered hawk.

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Antievolution Law and Politics Media 

Pledge to Learn Something About American History

2008/09/01 Wesley R. Elsberry ignorance as a key talent, presidential campaign, Sarah Palin

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin answered some questions from the Eagle Forum back in 2006. One of them shows

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