My ignorance knows no bounds. 🙂 I count myself, after watching this video, just little more in touch with the basic stuffs that makes computer technologies work. Filed under: Education Tagged: Education, Physics, Transistors
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Dead Wild Roses: Quackery Smack Down on the Australian Broadcasting Network
Chiropractors it is your term to take the sauce and see that the woo you peddle is twaddle and dangerous to people. Filed under: Quackery, Science Tagged: ABC, Chiropractic Woo, Quackery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hyper Earth is Awesome
Join me in being mesmerized by the high tech modeling of the earth now possible with current super computers and satellite data. Filed under: Science Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Earth, Science, Super Computers
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Skepticism and Atheism – The Way of the Mister
Helpful hints for our wannabe skeptical friends. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Atheism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Conversations I Wish I Had.
Oh you know what happens, the doorbell on Sunday morning, the feeling of dread when you open the door and find someone who is going to attempt to show you ‘the way’ and save your soul and all of the other assorted delusional religious nonsense that gets peddled before
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The Twelve Tone Row
Fantastic ideas contained within this video by Vihart. Consider my knowledge of musical styles expanded, and hopefully your too. 🙂 Wikipedia blurb under the video. http://youtu.be/4niz8TfY794 Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Does “Conservative = Fruitbat”, in the US?
See what I mean? Filed under: Humour Tagged: Things I do not neccesarily want to understand, Wacky Conservatives
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So Why Don’t Pro-”Lifers” hate God?
A big thank you to Tigger_the_Wing, Back home =^ from the comments section of a blog post on Pharyngula. Tigger talks about the inconsistency in many of the arguments religious anti-choicers make. Back to regret: When we lose someone, the loss hurts; among other reasons because we remember all the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sun and Quantum Tunneling
Who knew that our Sun was being so shifty and taking the easy way out to produce energy? 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Quantum Tunneling, The Sun
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sidewalk Bingo ~ by Anonymous
Reblogged from Everysaturdaymorning's Blog: One of our escorts developed this brilliant Bingo to be played while we are at the clinic. You can print out the pictures and play along wherever your clinic is, but with practice you can visualize the Bingo board in your mind and place your mental
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Rick Perry:Unfounding America’s Principles
The loons are in overdrive in the United States and as a general rule the farther south one goes the loonier it gets. Rick Perry is prime example of the the cringe inducing, bile forming sectarian yahoo’s that ooze out of the woodwork and somehow gain political power. Darkmatter2525 illustrates
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton Misogyny Movement Makes A Wave
It is embarrassing when your hometown makes news for on the Internets for having induhviduals who think that rape apologia is a-fucking-okay. These vats of douche have co-opted what was a successful campaign against sexual violence at the University of Alberta and other locations back in 2010. Here is the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The RSA: Find your Element
Doesn’t matter how old you are, how young you are, just find your damn passion and run with it, plus…kitties!! Thus I give to you, faithful readership, a video filled with win. 🙂 Filed under: Education Tagged: Education, Find your Element, Kittehies!, The RSA
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series: F-sharp major – The Mystic
F♯ major or F-sharp major is a major scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯. Its key signature has six sharps. Its relative minor is D♯ minor, and its parallel minor is F♯ minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G♭ major. F-sharp
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pro-Choice Republicans?
Oh right, its only bad for dudes to get their autonomy infringed on. So sorry double XXers. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Abortion, Pro Life is Pro Misogyny
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA:Malala Yousafzai
The most remarkable ability that could be attributed to me at the age of fifteen was having not crushed my skull or lost a significant amount of my digits doing stupid shit. Ms.Yousafzai has considerably less going for her, but is doing considerably more. She is fighting for right for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Driving the Zipper Merge
Common sense and human behaviour are two concepts that, when seen in concert, should be looked upon with some skepticism. Take for instance the idea that when there is road construction and one lane is closed you should get over to the other lane ASAP as to not cause
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I.F. Stone – How Journalism should be done.
From an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. AMY GOODMAN: And the issue, what many will call a false dichotomy between advocacy and journalism, his views on this? D.D. GUTTENPLAN: Well, his views were that you can either be — he said two things that I think are
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The CBC Signature Series – E flat minor – The Eccentric
The CBC Signature Series is hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo. The E♭ (E-flat) minor scale consists of the pitches E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, and D♭. In the harmonic minor, the D♭ is raised to D♮. Its key signature consists of six flats (see below: Scales and keys). Its relative
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy 4th of July – Oh btw America, Welfare *Promotes* Independence.
“When we see the expansion of the dependency class in America and you add this to the 79 other means tested programs that we have in the United States, each time you add another brick to that wall, it’s a barrier to people that might go out and succeed. ”
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