» Fluorescent jellyfish genes earn Nobel Prize for Chemistry
10/09/08 06:46 from Thoughts from Kansas
Green fluorescent protein is a standard tool in molecular biology. Researchers insert the gene into an animal's genome, and then watch for a characteristic green glow when a particular region is activated. By finding cells where the gene i..
» Is John McCain sheltering al Qaeda?
10/09/08 00:14 from Thoughts from Kansas
Transcript of second McCain, Obama debate (10/7/2008): McCain: I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I'll get him. I know how to get him. Charlie Gibson interviews John McCain (9/3/2008): MCCAIN: Well, look, President Clinton [had] opportu..
» Odd debate moments
10/08/08 20:55 from Thoughts from Kansas
So what's up with "that one"? I know John McCain is a little old and nutty, but it was such an odd moment. Another odd moment happened in the discussion of Pakistan. Obama takes the reasonable view that we will pursue al Qaeda into Pakista..
» "The McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness"
10/08/08 01:26 from Thoughts from Kansas
So John McCain has jumped the shark. Consider these words from the typically right-wing-friendly Joe Klein : I'm of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw c..
» Boyda Debates
10/07/08 20:22 from Thoughts from Kansas
Nancy Boyda debated Lynn Jenkins . Boyda is the first-term Congresswoman who beat Jim Ryun last year. Jenkins is the Kansas state treasurer, and a former state legislator: One of their sharpest exchanges occurred when answering a question ..
» Negli-Jenkins? MIA at KPERS
10/07/08 19:34 from Blue Tide Rising
» John McCain's ties to terrorists
10/07/08 09:05 from Thoughts from Kansas
As ThinkProgress points out , John McCain tried to stop the government from prosecuting domestic terrorists : McCain's terrorism problem dates back to the early 1990s, when he sided with right-wing domestic terrorists and voted against tou..
» Religulous
10/06/08 17:43 from Thoughts from Kansas
I didn't get to see Bill Maher's Religulous, but apparently a lot of people did. It was on 502 theaters, and earned $3,500,000. For those keeping track, Ben Stein's Expelled earned $2,970,848 on its opening weekend, and was showing on 1,05..
» Palin debate answers scripted on cue cards!
10/03/08 17:38 from Blue Tide Rising
If you watched the debate last night, and found yourself wondering why Sarah kept offering non-specific answers at times only tangentially connected to the question at hand then you're like many Americans. And, it turns out, there is a reas..
» The debate
10/03/08 05:57 from Thoughts from Kansas
As I sort of expected, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden both did kinda OK tonight. Biden had some good moments but was a bit too stodgy and senatorial. Palin was overly scripted, managed to avoid making too much of a word salad, and seemed to be ..
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