We've had a terrific number of interesting things happen this week and I'll send out some email to all of the members but I will also tackle some of it here on the blog so new visitors can catch up. First, we finished the video integration. We teamed up with a company called Magnify.net, which is the kind of company that would be worth a billion dollars right now if YouTube hadn't come out first. We used magnify to power the video section because it allows us the flexibility to do a number of things: 1. There is a keyword search in there to allow us to automatically find videos from any number of video sites, like YouTube, Revver, etc.

Well, what can you say? He went toe-to-toe with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr and came up with the nomenclature 'black hole.' It had to be an interesting time. Physics still had worlds to conquer and he helped do it. There are some who decry the Manhattan Project, for example, because it's impossible to clarify how many lives were saved using an atomic bombs but we have an idea how many were killed. Term "black hole" - 1967.

If we're going to make fun of people who think the earth is 6000 years old or that cavemen frolicked with dinosaurs we should also make fun of berserk "environmentalists" who say blatantly stupid things. Ted Turner is an idiot. Why anyone can read anything he says and not cringe if he's on their side is beyond me. Yes, I understand he has made money and that is intellectual validation enough for some people but saying global warming is going to make us all cannibals is the kind of nonsensical silliness we need to avoid if we're going to get things done. Pollution is a serious problem no matter what form it takes.

First, I have a disclosure: I had no idea where Masai was before I googled it. It turns out I have never heard of it because it's not a place, it's a tribe. In Kenya and Tanzania. They don't read us, I assume. Instead they herd cattle in small groups, ten or so huts per settlement. In the old days, their ascension into manhood required killing a lion. With a spear. I have a .308 rifle and I don't want to be within 200 yards of a lion so I respect that they feel so confident in their hand-to-hand fighting they'll take a chance on dying just to prove they can herd cattle with the other men in their village. Kenya doesn't allow that any more (well, officially.

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Nathaniel Abraham got a job as a biology post-doc at Woods Hole and then chose to disclose that he wasn't necessarily hip to every little aspect of evolutionary biology - like the whole evolution part.

You all know me pretty well. I am middle of the road about anything not to do with the science aspects and the culture hoopie is way off my radar. Clearly the guy got a Ph.D. with his religious beliefs so they were not an impediment to him academically and that's where I would let it lay. Only the true atheist crazies can find a way to complain about Francis Collins because of his religion.