Monthly Archives: December 2009

Discovery Institute’s Embarrassing Diatribe About Darwinism

By jyaron | Published: December 28, 2009
The Discovery Institute is a dangerous organization to be associated with; not necessarily physically dangerous, but academic careers can spiral to oblivion when members of this Seattle-based Intelligent Design (read: “science needs religion!”) group make statements like the one they did today. This article is title “PBS: Publishing Bad Science” and discusses (with evidence that [...]
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Colo, Oldest Captive Gorilla, Celebrates 53rd Birthday

By jyaron | Published: December 24, 2009
The oldest living gorilla in captivity, Colo (from Columbus, Ohio), celebrated her 53rd birthday with what looks like a giant, great ape-size cake (see video, click image or here). Interestingly, Colo is also the first gorilla every born in captivity. A Western Gorilla, her species is Critically Endangered. Colo is quite the matriarch, with one [...]
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More Proof That Smoking Leads to Small-Cell Lung Cancer

By jyaron | Published: December 23, 2009
In a Nature article published earlier this week, UK and US researchers have provided more proof that smoking has a direct effect on the development of small-cell lung cancer. This study describes 22,910 somatic mutations characterized by massively parallel sequencing technology (including 134 in highly important exon coding regions) in the small-cell lung cancer cell [...]
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