Hugh Laurie – psychic spoon bender

H/T Skepchic

The funniest attempt at fearmongering

As part of the Bush administration’s fearmongering over the failure of Congress to provide the telephone companies with immunity for breaking the law, the Heritage Foundation posted a clock that counted down the milliseconds until the FISA extension expired and we would all be killed by terrorists (after all, only immune telephone companies can protect [...]

Florida Science Standards update

Mike O’Risal at Hyphoid Logic has a detailed update on tomorrow’s vote on Florida’s science standards.  It’s definitely an interesting read.
Ed Brayton has word that a bad “compromise” might be in the cards – preface any mention of “evolution” with “theory of”.

Benefits of Science Blogging

Apparently the benefits of science blogging are substantially greater than I had ever imagined: it serves a foil against speeding tickets, accusations of being bad in bed, priests and thesis advisers!  (I wish I had known that when I was a grad student.)
H/T PZ Myers and Chris Rowan.