Posts by Dave Semeniuk

Your humble professors hit the newstands…

Allen and Dave might be too modest to point out their interview about Terry and ASIC in this week’s Westender, so I’ll do it (link): And…

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Upcoming Rap Tribute to Darwin at The Norm…check it.

Baba Brinkman performs his brand new one-man show “The Rap Guide to Evolution” at the Vancouver Evolution Festival before taking it to the Edinburgh Fringe in…

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Seminar: Synthetic Sea, Synthetic Me: Plastic debris in the marine environment

Place: AERL 120 (map) Date: Friday, April 3 Time: 11am Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins are from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), where Marcus…

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US Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL.) on Climate Change

March 2009, US Subcommittee on Energy and Environment: “The Earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over.” “There is a theological…

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Robosects…

Filed under: Holy Crap. From Mike Libby’s Insect Lab (link): In science fiction, insects are frequently featured as robotic critters. Either scurrying across the galaxy as…

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Perry Bible Fellowship, Meet Evolution

If you haven’t read anything from the The Perry Bible Fellowship,  then it’s about time you did: (click image for larger version) PBF is a bizarre…

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Mathemagic Land, The Land of Adventure (1959)

A rediscovered joy from my youth: Part 2 and Part 3 below…

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More Confusion on Evolution: The Conservative’s Aren’t Alone

UPDATE: The Globe is holding a poll (link):  Do you believe in evolution?  The results, as of 12:15pm (Wed): Yes: 52% (18711 votes) No: 46% (16608…

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Visualizing Your Carbon Footprint: A Six Story Compressed Gas Cylinder

I’m not sure why that I have waited this long to calculate my carbon footprint.  After inputting my information to the calculator at goBEYOND, it spit…

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You’re Making Me a Sad Man, Mr. Goodyear

Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution. “I’m not…

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