Archives for April 18, 2008
The Best Laid Plans…
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2008 The Best Laid Plans…A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York’s new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin. Mike Fleming handed the documents – marked “Secure Document – Confidential” in to the New York Post newspaper. The Freedom Tower is being built at Ground Zero, to replace the World Trade Centre…
What’s in the air?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2008 Good question … what IS in the air? The simple answer is that the air … the Earth’s atmosphere … is about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, with a tiny amount of some other gases including water vapor. Then, there’s dirt. I want to talk a little about the oxygen, one of the other gases (carbon…
To Hell With Expelled! …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2008 … the blog carnival, is HERE at Dinosaurs and The Bible: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale
Happy Birthday Clarence Darrow
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2008 Darrow was born this day in 1857. He was a lawyer and a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We know him as the defender of John Scopes in the Monkey Trial of 1925. Darrow and Scopes lost that trial, which was the first of many court cases regarding the teaching of…
Albert Einstein: March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2008 When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case…
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