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2010/06/25 Wesley R. Elsberry

Listening to Snapping Shrimp

I’m working on setting up a citizen scientist project to document where snapping shrimp (family Alpheidae) are active pre- and

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AntievolutionEducationLaw and Politics
2010/06/22 Wesley R. Elsberry

Does a Stealth Evolution Textbook Exist?

I got an email request from a college student. He asked if I knew of a high-school level textbook that

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General
2010/06/10 Wesley R. Elsberry

Boating

Diane and I finished up a course in boating safety this week. Flotilla 72 of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/06/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

Discovery Institute Bleats

In an article discussing Google and the news, the Discovery Institute complains that they are victims of a uniform journalistic

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Photography
2010/05/20 Wesley R. Elsberry

Digicam Video

Word was that the “House” finale that aired this past Monday was shot on a DSLR with 1080p HD video.

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Computation
2010/05/20 Wesley R. Elsberry

Trying to Find a Market

Following up on a comment from Dick Hoppe, I expanded upon the data compilation I wrote about earlier concerning the

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ComputationLaw and Politics
2010/05/15 Wesley R. Elsberry

Beautiful Soup and Tax Certificates

Manatee County offers tax certificates to bidders. When property owners fail to pay their taxes, and that is happening a

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AntievolutionLaw and PoliticsMedicine
2010/05/06 Wesley R. Elsberry

Comment on Swank Antievolution

I left a comment to the opinion letter of a Greg Swank, M.D.. Dr. Swank gave a Gish Gallop and

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FalconryWildlife
2010/04/27 Wesley R. Elsberry

“A Special Kind of Air Patrol”

My parents send me interesting articles from my hometown paper, the Lakeland Ledger. One of the latest of these I

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AntievolutionScience
2010/04/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

True Things About Evolution

I was looking for a particular post of mine, and ran across this one from back in 1999. “The Patterson

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EducationScience
2010/04/23 Wesley R. Elsberry

Nationals of the National Ocean Science Bowl

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership’s National Ocean Science Bowl is holding its national competition this weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida

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Law and PoliticsMedicine
2010/04/13 Wesley R. Elsberry

CoverFlorida Health Care

Last year, the CoverFlorida Health Care program got started. This is essentially group insurance for the Florida uninsured pool, organized

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Computation
2010/04/11 Wesley R. Elsberry

New ISP for Us: Verizon FIOS

We got our new ISP activated on Saturday, and we had selected Verizon FIOS. On a dollars per bandwidth unit

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/03/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

Latest from Thompson and the Thomas More Law Center

Richard Thompson’s latest lawsuit by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) is a foray to obtain a permanent injunction against

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General
2010/03/17 Wesley R. Elsberry

On the Home Front: Ryobi and Batteries

Back in 2004, Diane was looking at getting a reciprocating saw. Despite the indications that one simply should get the

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General
2010/03/16 Wesley R. Elsberry

Taking Questions from Students

William Demsbki includes credit in his course for students for participating in online exchanges. Someone claiming to be a student

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/03/08 Wesley R. Elsberry

Zimmerman on Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum is a man with his eye on making a run for the presidency. He’s also known for his

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ScienceWildlife
2010/03/07 Wesley R. Elsberry

State of Zen for Sage Grouse

The Los Angeles Times reports on how the US Interior Department made a decision about sage grouse: The Interior Department

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Law and Politics
2010/03/04 Wesley R. Elsberry

Reagan, Grant, Roosevelt, and Currency

Republican legislators are looking for another memorial for former President Ronald Reagan: put his face on US currency. They’ve encountered

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/03/03 Wesley R. Elsberry

Texas: Don McLeroy is Out

Don McLeroy, former chairman of the Texas State Board of Education and pusher of “intelligent design” creationism, has lost the

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