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Jason Rosenhouse received
his PhD in mathematics
from Dartmouth College in 2000.
He subsequently spent three years as a post-doc at
Kansas State University.
Observing the machinations of the Kansas Board of Education
led to his unhealthy obsession with issues related
to evolution and creationism.
Currently he is an Associate Professor of
Mathematics at James Madison University,
in Harrisonburg, VA.
October 31, 2006
Category: Religion
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson wrote this lengthy review of The God Delusion for Harpers Magazine. She was unimpressed. The review weighs in at 4599 words, but you'll find yourself almost a thousand words in before hitting anything substantive...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:18 PM • 66 Comments •
October 30, 2006
Category: Religion
Physicist Lawrence Krauss wrote Nature's review of The God Delusion. The review itself is mixed: strong praise for parts of the book, exasperated criticism for others. But the following two paragraphs are what caught my eye: Dawkins the preacher is...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:08 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Religion
The reviews of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion are coming in, and they are mostly negative. That was predictable. Everyone knows, after all, that Dawkins is just one of those fanatical, frothing at the mouth atheists, who doesn't understand that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:15 PM • 48 Comments •
October 27, 2006
Category: Politics
My cute little house looked a lot better before my meager possessions were strewn aimlessly across every flat surface. It didn't help that this was an unusually busy week at work. I did, however, manage to catch this spot-on essay...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:04 PM • 11 Comments •
October 23, 2006
Category: Administrative
There's a big pile of bloggable items sitting on my desk, but they will have to wait. I will be moving in to my new house tomorrow! Very exciting. We are also hosting an undergraduate mathematics research conference here at...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science
As an amusing follow-up to Friday's post, have a look at this lengthy op-ed from McGill University physicist Jim Cline, in The Ottawa Citizen. Here's an excerpt: Why is it that string theory has become such a favoured paradigm? Have...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:35 PM • 7 Comments •
October 20, 2006
Category: Science
As several other SB'ers have already noted, physicist Brian Greene offers this defense of string theory in today's New York Times. He concludes: I have worked on string theory for more than 20 years because I believe it provides the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:28 PM • 12 Comments •
October 19, 2006
Category: Mathematics
On October 2, Nature published this news brief about a claim of a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations: A buzz is building that one of mathematics' greatest unsolved problems may have fallen. Blogs and online discussion groups are spreading news...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:19 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
An amusing item from CNN: Kids who are turned off by math often say they don't enjoy it, they aren't good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success? The...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:43 PM • 12 Comments •
October 18, 2006
Category: Politics
Check out this photograph. It's Bush meeting with a truly odious collection of sycophants and lickspittles: Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, and Michael Gallagher. Gallagher is the only one of the bunch with whom I'm unfamiliar, but...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:37 PM • 3 Comments •
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