Two-fer

In Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media by Jeff Cohen, the author recalls that Jerry Falwell once uttered the jaw-dropping two-fer, "The separation of church and state is a myth like global warming" during a television debate on the subject. Wow.

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Sea squirts have hearts. But they're really simple- they have just one chamber (we have four). I doubt they were aiming at irreducible complexity creationists, but Mike Levine's group at Berkeley have shown that overexpression of one key cardiac transcription factor results in a fully functional two-chambered heart in Ciona Intestinalis.
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A vaccine against the bubonic plague? Booya.
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