Saturday, 13 September 2008

• Recent postings on Lambda Delta
  
  September 6, 2008:
  

  • Pope didn't tell frog to hop it after all (newspapers had misrepresented a story involving a sculpture of a crucified frog)
    

  September 7, 2008:
  

  • Just a theory (a cute cartoon about creationism)
  • Ice age predictions are premature (predictions based on sunspots are speculative)
  • Snake oil degrees abandoned (a British university has dropped a degree in homeopathic medicine)
    

  September 8, 2008:
  

  • NASA chief Griffin blasts White House in leaked email (he's not happy about the plans for the shuttle)
    
  • BC appeal court approved "no go" zones around abortion clinies, rejects appeal by protestors (a failed attempt to challenge "no go" zones around clinics in Vancouver)
    
  • Victorian bill to decriminalize abortion (An Australian state reforms its abortion law)
    
  • Quirkology (Richard Wiseman's psychology fun website)
    

  September 9, 2008:
  

  • headcrabs lol (famous troubleshooter spotted at CERN)
    
  • Gay agenda is winning (gay marriage is coming and there is nothing the fundies can do about it)
    
  • JK Rowling wins Harry Potter case, Steve Vander Ark to publish new book (big libel case victory for Harry Potter author)
    
  • Denied a passport on grounds of midwifery (some Americans of Mexican ancestry can't get passports)
    

  September 10, 2008:
  

  • Zapatero set to deliver on promise to fix Spain's anomalous abortion laws (Spain moves a step further away from the Franco era)
    
  • What on earth are they up to at CERN?  New York Times gives an exclusive clue (a misprint reveals what's really going on)
    
  • Exhibition: Francis Bacon retrospective, Tate Britain (a great British-Irish painter)
    
  • When Hot Dogs Attack! (a weird crime, nobody hurt)
    

  September 12, 2008:
  

  • Teach magic at school (Richard Wiseman says it teaches social skills and confidence)
    
  • Cheap drug could prevent some recurrent miscarriages (prednisolone could prevent miscarriages--early days yet though)
    
  • The night they stole the internet (a big theft in Mayfair)
    
  • "Sex in confessionals" book angers religious kooks (Bill Donohue is angry.  Again)
    
  • Brumby's abortion reform bill passes Victorian lower house (Australian bill passes a big hurdle)
    
  • Women boo McCain over Roe v. Wade (He thinks it's bad,  they think he is.)
    

  September 13, 2008:
  

  • Examining a creationist case against modern geology (a guy who still hasn't dragged himself into the twentieth century--let alone the twenty-first)
    
  • Examining a creationist argument on the fossil record (same guy, second of two posts by me)
    
  • Newspapers and blogs misrepresent Dennis Wheeler on climate change (Geographer angry because loads of climate change conspiracy theorists think he's their new best friend--it's all down to misreporting in newspapers)
    

  
  

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