Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-12-2009

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• Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people - Los Angeles Times
  Santiago Meza Lopez, known as El Pozolero (the Stew Maker), says he stuffed bodies into barrels of lye for drug cartels. He may be a good source of information about missing loved ones.
  (tags: drugs crime politics death murder mexico)
   
• Let me google that for you
  nerd humor but pretty good.
  (tags: ha google search bitterness)
   
• Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life - life - 21 January 2009 - New Scientist
  Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded. "We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality" says Bapteste. That bombshell has even persuaded some that our fundamental view of biology needs to change.
  (tags: visualization history science dna toread darwin)

Comments

[bobby isosceles (from livejournal.com)]

It's funny how the zeitgeist fixates on an early pioneer in a science and neglects any subsequent discoveries which shed new light on a field. It's always Darwin-Freud-Einstein even though the new stuff often means having to think differently.


My hunch is that people want to have one "responsible figure" to associate an idea with, but it could also be poor education or whatever. What are your opinions on it?

[sveltelife.livejournal.com]

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