Blue Collar Scientist

It has apparently been four years now that I’ve been reading Tangled Bank. The latest edition is up at Dammit Jim! - go have a look.

It’s up at Andrea’s Buzzing About - go have a look. My post on Andrew Watson’s too-generous estimate of the frequency of extraterrestrial intelligence made the cut this round, but one of the better posts this time out is at Whiskey Before Breakfast, and it is called Skeptics are Soulless Atheistic Killing Machines Just Like Hitler. Well worth the read.

It is just waiting for you to read at Astroengine.

The latest Four Stone Hearth carnival is up at Hominin Dental Anthropology - go have a look! The guide is well written this time out, and there’s several posts worth reading. I’m only about a third of the way through, but so far I can recommend the post about how communicable disease influenced the development of science.

My pal over at Dinosaurs and the Bible: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale is hosting an Expelled carnival, including posts from around the blogosphere offering tons of reading about this Nazi propaganda movie¹. It is up as of a few minutes ago - go check out To Hell with Expelled!

And thanks for getting my submissions in even though I sent them in way late!

1. Er, wait - did that come out right? Hmm. Not sure I care. [↩]

It is up at KentuckySat - check it out. Especially worthy of mention are Fraser Cain’s explanation of why Pluto is not a planet and Emily Lakdawalla’s great discussion of MRO’s HiRISE images of Mar’s moon, Phobos (which is a captured asteroid with a density greater than that of water, by the way).

It’s up at rENNISance woman, go check it out!

The new Carnival of Space is up at WillGater.com!

The Skeptics Circle is up at Archaeoporn, and holy cow is it a good one! And a big one, so there’s lots of good reading to be had this edition. By all means head on over there and give it a read.

The thirty-eighth Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival, is now up at A Very Remote Period Indeed. And look at that - they picked up my story about the supposed 1-km Aten asteroid that supposedly hit Austria and supposedly - well, just read it. I’m very pleased to have made the cut, because my post is anthropological only topically, something that I was sure to point out when I submitted it.

Two of my favorites from this time out are my friend Martin’s posting on a big iron-age silver hoard, and a really outstanding discussion of well digging and dowsing over at Archaeoporn that I’ve been meaning to link to for a day or so now.

Enjoy the carnival - it’s a good one!