So, here’s a little something for all you Dancing with the Stars fans out there.
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The good news is that for every seven dollars Candie’s Foundation gave to Bristol Palin in 2009, they spent one dollar on “actual teen pregnancy prevention programs.”(Raw Story)
I’m certain that’s EXACTLY what the donors were hoping for.
So, this particular academic controversy falls well outside my area of expertise, but if I only wrote about things that I really understood well, my blog would be pretty empty.
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If you’re interested in reading more about Winchester’s fear-mongering claims and the earthquakologists’ reaction to them, check these out.
Life’s Little Mysteries
Scientific American
Paleocave
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So, you can file this one under Adventures in Corporate Asshattery:
Yes, that’s correct, the CEO and other executives of Transocean were each rewarded with a 2010 safety bonus for “significantly improving the company’s safety record,” which raises the question: How many people does an exploding Transocean oil rig kill most years?
The article where I got the numbers from is here.
This comic (along with others) is also posted at Darwin Eats Cake.
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So, you may have seen the recent New York Times article about General Electric. Here are the key numbers: 14.2 billion dollars in profits globally in 2010, 5.1 billion of which came from the US; negative 3.2 billion in US taxes. That’s right, not only did they pay no taxes, they claimed at 3.2 billion dollar tax benefit. That’s billion, with a b.
Here’s something to put that in perspective:
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If you want to feel more outraged and depressed by this, I recommend Tom Scocca’s post on the matter.
Sources:
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether, David Kocieniewski, New York Times, March 24, 2011.
NSF budget numbers from LiveScience.
So, last week I wrote about this Texas state representative who has proposed an anti-evolution bill. I’ve revisited the topic for the new episode of Darwin Eats Cake.
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So, have you spend all day looking for a comic that integrates Red Queen evolutionary dynamics, commentary on the application of parsimony arguments in biology, and Newt Gingrich’s recent flip-flopping on Libya? No? Well, hopefully you’ll enjoy this anyway. For a more viewable image, see the original at Darwin Eats Cake.
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For more on the flip-flop check out Think Progress or Weigel.
Van Valen, L (1973). A New Evolutionary Law Evolutionary Theory, 1, 1-30
So, you may or may not know that The Hives also said this.
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PARKS, P. (1992). A. M. Lyapunov’s stability theory—100 years on. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 9 (4), 275-303 DOI: 10.1093/imamci/9.4.275
So, you probably already know about the Ann Coulter column and interview, where she says a large number of Coulter-esque things about radiation. For a thorough takedown of her argument, check out this Pharyngula post.
For a takedown that is based on ad hominem attacks rather than evidence, but contains pictures, keep reading.
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Calabrese, E., & Baldwin, L. (2003). Hormesis: The Dose-Response Revolution
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 43 (1), 175-197 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.43.100901.140223
Update: Wow. In the original post, I spelled “radiation” wrong. Now corrected.
So, here’s the first new episode of Darwin Eats Cake after my move to the new platform:
This one is dedicated to Bradley Manning.
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And, before you post your comment, yes, I already know that the Geneva Conventions are intended to apply to prisoners and victims of war. However, it seems reasonable to me to think that this should set some sort of lower bound on how we treat our own citizens, especially when they have not even been charged with a crime.
So, my new webcomic has been on hiatus for a couple of weeks, during which I have been making some changes. I have reenvisioned all of the characters using original artwork, and I have given it a title and a home. The title is Darwin Eats Cake, and the URL, predictably, is http://www.darwineatscake.com.
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I have recreated the seven strips that have been published here on Lost in Transcription, and they are now all available at the comic’s site. I will shortly be replacing the blog versions with the new ones. I hope to post new strips at a rate of about two per week. If I can manage it, I will set specific days.
I’ll continue to cross-post all new strips here. The idea is that darwineatscake.com will be a nice, clean site, featuring only the comics. Since many of the strips make reference to the scientific literature, the cross-posted versions here will contain references and potentially brief discussions.