Why the Peppered Moth Remains an Icon of Evolution [The Panda's Thumb]

Read if you want to learn something.  8:38:08 PM    

North Carolina: I don't know how you smell, but some of your 'educators' stink [Pharyngula]

Aother fine example of the total inability of some people to actually teach science. Why do they even try? And I wonder just how Jesus smelled?  8:22:37 PM    

H5N1 Bird Flu: 70% mortality w/ 175 million deaths?. The Observer, the magazine of the English paper The Guardian, has today published On a wing and a prayer . snip 'We think it is only a matter of time before H5N1 or a related strain of the virus becomes infectious between humans,' Professor John Oxford, a virologist at the Queen Mary and Westfield School of medicine in east London, had warned me before I embarked for Vietnam. 'When that happens it will be too late to do anything about it, which is why we have to prepare now. Forget al-Qaeda, the biggest terrorist threat we face today is Mother Nature.' [Greater Democracy]

Evolution in action could kill so many. Luckily there are some hardworking, educated scientists striving to prevent this pandemic. Maybe a few creationists would be grateful. Maybe. Perhaps education is a good thing.  8:06:13 PM    

More Bush Hypocrisy: Signed Bill Allowing Deaths Of Vegetative Patients. Via atrios, the Hypocrisy never ends:

George Bush signed the law which allows the hospitals to make this decision:

A patient's inability to pay for medical care combined with a prognosis that renders further care futile are two reasons a hospital might suggest cutting off life support, the chief medical officer at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital said Monday.

Dr. David Pate's comments came as the family of Spiro Nikolouzos fights to keep St. Luke's from turning off the ventilator and artificial feedings keeping the 68-year-old grandfather alive.

St. Luke's notified Jannette Nikolouzos in a March 1 letter that it would withdraw life-sustaining care of her husband of 34 years in 10 days, which would be Friday. Mario Caba-llero, the attorney representing the family, said he is seeking a two-week extension, at minimum, to give the man more time to improve and to give his family more time to find an alternative facility.

Yes, this is a a matter of principle for the GOP. You believe that, and I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. [Daily Kos]

So, here is a family that wants to keep their loved one alive and the state permits the doctors to cut off life support, against the wishes of the family. I don't see Congress getting up in arms about this. I wonder why?  12:10:11 AM