Do you use Facebook frequently? Do you use RSS feed readers significantly less frequently than you use Facebook? Do you want me to insert another electronic finger into the pie that is your online life? If you answered “yes” to two-and-a-half or more of these questions, then you might want to join the brand new Homologous Legs Facebook page! It’s an easy way to have updates about and from this blog ruthlessly thrust into the maelstrom of emotions and cats that is all of your friends’ and acquaintances’ status [...]

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8/30/2011 9:06:41 PM
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My last exam, Biochemical Regulation of Cell Function, finished a bit over an hour ago, at the time I’m writing this. Three months of holidays! Three months. That’s how much holidays I have now: it’s quite a bit, I think you’ll agree. And because I’ve been neglecting the blog a little due to all the studying I’ve been doing, I want to clarify what you should expect to see up here over that period. You see, I’m at a crossroads with regard to what I should write about over [...]

» Continue reading "The post-exam blogging Holiday Junction – or – Future plans for Homologous Legs"

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11/22/2011 2:38:28 PM
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The next Skeptics of Carlos will be hosted at the blog of Homologous Legs! If you’re unfamiliar with the Skeptics of Carlos Blog Carnival – here’s a link to the last round. In case you need reminding: ENTRIES – 13th August, 2008 AT – Homologous Legs – http://naontiotami.wordpress.com/ EMAIL – skepticsofcarlos@gmail.com with the url and your blog name! [...]

From Skeptics Of Carlos - An Australian Blog Circle
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8/7/2008 11:42:34 PM
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My own blog, Homologous Legs, is currently hosting the 135th edition of the Carnival of the Godless blog carnival, featuring a delightful selection of godless posts from various excellent bloggers, including (but not limited to) the Digital Cuttlefish, Podblack Cat, Atheist Revolution, and Secularism Examiner. Check it out if you like good writing about religion [...]

From Young Australian Skeptics
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2/17/2010 1:54:57 AM
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Yes, I mentioned it in an earlier post, but now I’m making it absolutely clear – on the 14th of February (Valentine’s Day, eh?) Homologous Legs will be hosting the Carnival of the Godless blog carnival!

If you want submission guidelines, here’s the place to go, but really, anything pertaining to or about religion from a [...]

From Homologous Legs
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2/17/2010 6:19:13 PM
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This is a blog series where I interview writers, bloggers, podcasters, etc. about topics relevant to science, skepticism, and critical thinking. Today I speak with Jack Scanlan about his website called Homologous Legs, his podcast “The PseudoScientists” and he answers my questions regarding his interest in Evolution, rebutting Intelligent Design articles, and skepticism. Hello and thank you [...]

From Michigan Skeptics Association
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10/31/2010 10:10:21 PM
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Everyone loves metablogging, and if you don’t, you probably have no idea what it is. To metablog is to blog about blogging — how could that not be a fascinating topic? A good metablog every once in a while allows you to look at what your blogging focus is, how effectively you’re managing that focus, [...]

From Young Australian Skeptics
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4/22/2010 8:44:05 PM
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The past week has been mightily busy, so sorry for not writing on Homologous Legs at all. But I have a good excuse – the Global Atheist Convention was held in Melbourne from the 12th to the 14th of March, and I was one of the volunteers. This meant that I had to hold up [...]

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3/16/2010 10:44:30 AM
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…that I am announcing my withdrawal from the Internet, including Homologous Legs, for the duration of my university exams.

This means that there will be no posts on here, or updates on my Twitter account, from now until the end of next week. Yes, it will be hard for me, but I think I owe my [...]

From Homologous Legs
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6/6/2010 8:52:16 PM
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If you haven’t read the sidebar in a while, or at all, you may not know that I’m a 17 year-old who’s just finished their high school education, and is starting their undergraduate university degree this year. This puts me in a bit of a unique situation – I’ve been blogging on Homologous Legs since [...]

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2/17/2010 6:19:13 PM
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As you might have guessed (if you’re not a feed-reader), Homologous Legs now has some new header images, which are on random rotation (which means that the next time you open a page, a new header image will randomly load – I didn’t want to piss people off with the tacky “every few seconds” kind [...]

From Homologous Legs
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4/20/2010 10:23:26 AM
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…that I am announcing my withdrawal from the Internet, including Homologous Legs, for the duration of my university exams.

This means that there will be no posts on here, or updates on my Twitter account, from now until the end of next week. Yes, it will be hard for me, but I think [...]

From Homologous Legs
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6/6/2010 8:52:16 PM
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Note: Submissions are now closed.

Homologous Legs is hosting the 135th edition of the Carnival of the Godless on the 14th of February (Valentine’s Day), so the next 24 hour period is really your last chance to submit your godless posts for entry into the carnival – I’ll be starting to write it and put [...]

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2/17/2010 6:19:13 PM
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Divisible by Pi has joined ANZAB (Australian and New Zealand Atheist Blogroll) recently, and below is his intro:

Divisible By Pi is a blog about science, skepticism and secularism written by Richard (a refugee from performing arts and a law degree). Nowadays he fills his time studying maths and physics, promoting science and freethought, and [...] Related posts:

1. We welcome General Systems Vehicle to the ANZAB blogroll
2. We welcome Gladly, the cross-eyed bear to the ANZAB blogroll

3. From Sean the Blogonaut
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   5/3/2010 4:05:11 PM
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Normally I’m not a fan of tracking back through the archives of blogs that I follow, but I’m prepared to make a big exception with The Panda’s Thumb, a group blog focused on evolutionary biology and its cultural and religious detractors. In a way it’s like Homologous Legs, except older, better and the people who write it know exactly what they’re talking about – PhDs in biology abound.

This gem of an article comes from way back in August of 2004, after Stephen C. Meyer published his controversial paper, The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories, in the journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of [...]

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8/8/2010 10:30:15 AM
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It’s arrived, the sequel to my favourite Internet musical of all time – A Very Potter Musical! Not familiar with the brilliance that is everyone’s favourite Harry Potter fan parody musical? Check out this video (and all subsequent videos), then report back.

But AVPM’s sequel, A Very Potter Sequel, is finally here! And it’s great! So great! Watch! Watch!

Here’s Act 1, Part 1 for your viewing delight:

You can watch the rest of the musical here.

In other news, today’s the last day for you to vote for Homologous Legs in the Big Blog Theory. Thanks to all who have voted so far, it means [...]

From Homologous Legs
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7/23/2010 3:10:42 PM
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Chris Lindsay of the Michigan Skeptics Association blog has a regular series of posts where he “interview[s] writers, bloggers, podcasters, etc. about topics relevant to science, skepticism, and critical thinking”, and I was his latest victim subject interviewee. We talked about this blog, the process of engaging with ID proponents and creationists on the Internet, my first introduction to anti-evolutionism and many other (unrelated) topics, such as the Pseudo Scientists podcast and TAM Australia.

So if, for some reason, you feel like knowing [...]

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11/1/2010 1:04:11 PM
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» Continue reading "Joining the team at Vibewire Youth Inc."

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2/22/2012 1:10:29 PM
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On Monday I mentioned that I’ve been asked to start writing for the Nature Education blog Student Voices. Well, my first post has been published, entitled Engineering Solar Bacteria, and it’s all about taking genes from marine bacterioplankton and putting them in E. coli, allowing them to use light as an energy source! A fascinating topic, something I might cover in more detail on Homologous Legs in the future.

Here’s a little taste:

Wouldn’t life be so much easier if we didn’t have to regularly eat [...]

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2/16/2011 9:47:28 PM
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As mentioned, I have a couple of pro-ID books that need to be read and reviewed these holidays: Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer, and Intelligent Design Uncensored by William Dembski and Jonathan Witt. While I’ve done preliminary readings of both books, in order to grasp their overall structure and scope, I recently started reading the latter in a greater level of detail.

What I’ve found has not been pretty.

Yes, Intelligent Design Uncensored is not a very healthy book to read, [...]

» Continue reading "Thoughts on the first three chapters of Dembski and Witt’s “Intelligent Design Uncensored”"

From Homologous Legs
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12/22/2011 11:48:30 PM
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I don’t even have to explain this one, it’s just too true.

From Homologous Legs
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9/19/2010 8:28:46 PM
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Education, people! IT MATTERS.

Replace the movie with a biology test about evolutionary theory, and if the Discovery Institute gets its way, similar problems might occur: “Not phylogenetic analysis! Homology is the work of design, not a natural biological process!”

From Homologous Legs
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4/26/2010 8:22:58 PM
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Zach Weiner understands biologists perfectly – it’s because he’s engaged to one. One note of contention though…

…for me it would be a pig genome, not a pig fetus. But they’re basically the same, right? Right?

From Homologous Legs
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3/17/2010 10:00:41 AM
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You have to love Tim Minchin – only he could produce something so offensive, yet legitimately immune from criticism; so catchy, yet containing an intelligent message…

Warning: The below video contains copious amounts of swearing. Use caution when watching without headphones.

From Homologous Legs
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4/30/2010 6:30:06 PM
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Thanks, Twitter, for leading me to this excellent find. Alex Varanese, as a project in advertising and product design, has re-imagined some common products from today and thought about how they would look and be marketed if they were stolen by time travellers and taken back to 1977, where they would be sold [...]

From Homologous Legs
http://www.naontiotami.com/?p=1580
6/23/2010 10:01:13 PM
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