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Saturday Morning Miniblog Update – Extra Evolution!

January 9th, 2010 | Category: miniblog update

Christmas and New Years got the better of me for the past two weeks, but I’m going to make it up to you with nothing but news stories about evolution. I do treat you well, don’t I?

- Prions capable of evolution (Now you have even more reason to be hysterically scared about prion diseases…)

- Even killer whales cannot escape the pull of evolution (Soon they’ll be evolving into the fabled human-eating niche!)

- Eight percent of the human genome is bornaviral in [...]

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Saturday Morning Miniblog Update – Fossils, Filters and (Eco-)Facists

December 19th, 2009 | Category: miniblog update

Yeah, I’m a big fan of alliteration. So what?

- Australian Government Internet filter to go ahead (How would you like your censorship today – pressed or filtered?)

- Fossil of seacow ancestor discovered (What? More data to slot into the Evolutionary Tree of Life? Scandalous.)

- The evolution of koalas revealed (Even more? Wow, not a good week to be a creationist.)

- James Randi hijacked by AGW “skeptics” (It was only a matter of time, really.)

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No Saturday Morning Miniblog Update this week

December 12th, 2009 | Category: miniblog update

… because I’ve been on my school’s Bike Camp in northern rural Victoria, a strange land not frequented by easy Internet access, and as such there haven’t been any miniblog updates to make you aware of.

It’s funny how life always gets in the way of things on the Internet, isn’t it? Well, not that that’s a bad thing…

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Saturday Morning Miniblog Update – T-shirts, Ben Goldacre and Maize

December 5th, 2009 | Category: miniblog update

Every Saturday morning, I plan on filling you in on the week’s goings-on at Homologous Legs Mini, this site’s miniblog, where news items that are too long for Twitter, yet too short for the main blog, are posted.

This is the first of such updates, and as you will clearly see if you check out the stories, it encompasses a bit more than this week’s postings – this is because I’ve been fairly busy for a while and haven’t had the chance to start up the [...]

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