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“Songs From the Science Frontier” – YOU can help kids get excited about science!
Posted by ERV on July 23, 2010 WARBLEGARBLETHISISSOCOOLYALL! Where to start? You all are aware of the fact we have ‘science education issues’ here in Oklahoma? Well not everyone here is sitting on their hands, shaking their heads, bemoaning what a shame it is. A fellow who lives in Stillwater, Monty Harper, is actually trying to do something about it in a…
Rule #9284748 of Science
Posted by ERV on June 28, 2010 Rule #9284748 of Science: Your side projects will work beautifully, garnering you lots of middle-author yet high-end publications, while your main project stagnates in a puddle of its own filth, laughing maniacally as you poke it with a stick trying to get it to move. YAY SCIENCE!
Facts Of Evolution: Retroviruses And Pseudogenes
Posted by ERV on June 5, 2010 Neato!
University of Oklahoma luvs Darwin!
Posted by ERV on April 21, 2010 Hey you remember last year, OU had all these super cool presentations by scientists and evilution-themed activities for Darwins 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of ‘Origin’? Remember how OK politicians and religious radicals had a conniption fit over it? Well, the professor who spearheaded the Darwinabration, Piers Hale (comrade of the nefarious John Lynch),…
Creationists are *WEIRD*
Posted by ERV on February 9, 2010 Look, I like weird people. Goth kids. Sci-fi geeks. Language nerds. Weird people are far more interesting than, say, the ‘normal’ people that get cast for shows like ‘The Bachelor’: Generic Human #231975, Generic Human #576930, Generic Human #750193, bleh. But theres a whole different level of weird, and that level is ‘Creationist’. Example: Remember…