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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:06 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
The issues at hand pertain to privacy, how public high schools are run, how colleges are marketed. This also may pertain to the ongoing discussion of civility.
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:11 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Two. Four. Six. Eight. How are ya gonna edumicate?
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:29 PM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
This just in: Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the NCSE, has won the California Academy of Sciences Fellows Medal. This is somewhere between an Oscar and a Nobel. Congratulations Genie!!! Details......
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Education
"At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
WPTV.COM has a poll asking "Should educators be fined or jailed for offering prayer in public schools?" and the possible answers are "yes" and "no." Which I guess means they are not really asking an "either/or" question although it is worded that way. Anyway, this...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:14 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
We know there is a link between education, church going behavior, and the inability or unwillingness to accept that evolution is real and that humans evolved. But what exactly is the relationship? I think the following diagram includes the correct answer, but I'm not sure...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:08 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Dr. Gruver, I was utterly floored to learn that your school district has expressed (by strong implication) concern over the value and appropriateness of a message from President Obama to the school children of our country....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:20 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
I was shocked to learn only a few minutes ago that the administration of the largest independent school district in the state of Minnesota had no idea until today about the President's intention to speak to the school children of this country next week. As...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
