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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.

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The latest Ask a Science Blogger Question is: What makes a good science teacher? My fellow SB'ers have already unloaded a wealth of good answers. In one of his essays for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Isaac Asimov relates the...

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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:29 PM • 4 Comments •

Finding Time To Blog

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Here's the latest question from HQ: How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically? Good question. I often...

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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:09 PM • 6 Comments •

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The latest Ask a Science Blogger question is: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why? I had to smile a bit when...

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Question of the Week

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Seed's ScienceBlogger Question of the week is the following: If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be? My knee-jerk response was pretty obvious: “Evolution!” Sadly, John Lynch got there first. Then...

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