Balance Your Reading
When you’ve completed your daily classical liberalism reading assignment head over to Jasmine Cola for Tangled Bank #20, the current edition of the compendium of great science weblog articles.
When you’ve completed your daily classical liberalism reading assignment head over to Jasmine Cola for Tangled Bank #20, the current edition of the compendium of great science weblog articles.
I had an unfortunate accident last night. On the way home from work, I was, as usual, scanning through the radio stations trying to avoid commercials and find scraps of good listening material.
Just a few minutes from home the station scan found O’reilly saying come back after the break to hear my interview with a scientist about intelligent design. It hooked me. Damn.
PZ Meyers accurately describes the person I was listening to:
I have never, in my entire 12 year career as a college instructor, ever had a student as stupid, as dense, as arrogant, as oblivious, as Bill O�Reilly. I have never had a conversation with a lay person about science that was as grossly wrong as this eructation of ignorance out of the mouth of Bill O�Reilly. And this man is a highly paid commentator on a nationally broadcast and popular program?
I am really impressed with Dr Michael Grant, though. He actually managed to sit through that and make civil and competent responses. I would have been shocked into silence, or would have simply left the room as soon as he said, �there are four seasons. That�s science.�
Not everyone rebels. It is just the vast majority of people who find learning painful.
Marvin Minsky, Closer to Truth # 210: How Does Technology Transform Society?
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PLoS has published the inaugral issue of PLoS Medicine.
PLos is
…a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.Enjoy the reading!
I suspect that this poll has spread far beyond Dover, PA. The question:
Do you think schools should allow a textbook that teaches the concept of a divine creator to be used in a biology class?On Thursday, 9 September 2004 at 03:55:50 GMT the vote is 453 No to 328 yes.