Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
When it comes to being a world leader in the sciences, America is losing ground.
Speaking at a science summit that opens this week's first World Science Festival, the expert panel of scientists, and audience members, agreed that the United States is losing stature because of a perceived high-level disdain for ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Education, Science | 6 Comments »
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Let us then endeavor to disperse those clouds of ignorance, those mists of darkness which impede man on his journey, which obscure his progress, which prevent his marching through life with a firm, with a steady step. Let us try to inspire him with courage — with respect for his ...
Posted in Education, Religion | 16 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Rick Steves is a favorite new scapegoat for the Far Right. His crime? He’s traveling in Iran, as a tourist. His theory, according to this column, is that “each journey abroad is micro-scale diplomacy, opening a mind at a time to our common humanity.” He wants to “give collateral damage ...
Posted in Education, Iran, Miscellaneous, World News | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The following video, Flock Of Dodos, is a documentary on the debate between those who accept evolution and those who argue in favor of an intelligent designer. I could be wrong, but it is arguably one of the best I've seen on the subject.
While the filmmaker is an avowed evolutionist, ...
Posted in BIO, Education, Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Science | 9 Comments »
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Try as they might to undermine science, those who reject evolution and downplay the impact of man-made climate change will have to work overtime to deny newly revealed evidence of both.
Time and again, creationist's contend that the fossil record lacks the transitional forms of life to support the theory ...
Posted in BIO, Current Affairs, Death, Education, Environment, Global Warming, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Science | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
It wasn’t too long ago that I heard people, mainly conservatives, complaining that the textbooks used in the schools were too biased. Many of these people were opposed to the idea that evolution should be considered as even a remote explanation for the why we have life on this planet ...
Posted in BIO, Economics, Education, Life, Politics | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
At the time that this article is written 4,071 American families have lost a loved one in the war that our nation is in. Many of the kids fighting in this war will eventually face the same politics that our troops in Vietnam faced. As someone writing from a liberal ...
Posted in 2008 elections, 4000 dead, Afghanistan, America, Campaign News, Democrat Primary, Democrat elections, Education, Election News, Homeland Security, Iraq War, Military, conservative | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
This from the Chronicle of Higher Education's list...Tony Snow, former Whitehouse spokesmodel for GWB is showing up on the circut this year. Any one in the vacinity care to report or heckle, let us know how it goes.Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey
May 12, 2008
Tony Snow, former White House press ...
Posted in BIO, Contributors, Education | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Back in 1955, Rudolf Flesch, author of the book Why Johnny Can't Read, took issue with the latest trend in teaching children to read. Rather than learning phonics, students were simply being taught to recognize words and Flesch argued that the practice left them ill-prepared for the unknown. In other ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Education, George W. Bush, Health, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Science, humor | No Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Since I'm feeling rather sarcastic today, I found the following story irresistible. A new Harris Poll suggests that fiction is numero uno when it comes to Americans choosing their favorite books.
Topping the list is none other than the Bible...which certainly helps explain why many Americans reject the science behind evolution ...
Posted in BIO, Education, Religion, Right Wing Nut, Science | 3 Comments »
