Rubber Battiness

Some interesting links for the day:

First up, a debate over design of baseball bats. This is hilarious, nearly worthy of Terry Pratchett.

Somewhat related, an update on the Dover Case . The best part is "A leading architect of the intelligent-design movement defended his ideas in a federal courtroom on Tuesday and acknowledged that under his definition of a scientific theory, astrology would fit as neatly as intelligent design." So if we are required to teach intelligent design in biology, we'd darn well better start teaching astrology as part of astronomy and physics! (As this cartoon aptly indicates)

Next, an unexpected benefit of recycling tires into asphault.

One of the philosophical blogs I read has a link to his paper suggesting that "mind" cannot be explained by mechanistic processes. Maybe I'll have time to read it all the way through later on... :-)

And they've found a new flying lizard (at least, they found fossils of it). My only complaint is that there wasn't a picture. So here is a completely unrelated picture of a crane.