What is Wrong with the American System of Education?
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Glendon Mellow Arts Blog (must see)
Category: Atheism
Glendon Mellow has been blogging his art for some time, at The Flying Trilobite. But lately he "arted his blog" in the sense that he made a picture based on a statement which he had made in response to a bunch of blog posts. ".......
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Unscientific America Related Items
Category: Framing Science
I was sick Sunday, and I'm a bit off today, so everything is 36 to 48 hours off. So, my review of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future will be delayed. In the mean time you can have a look at these items:...
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More reading on the Neoatheisticaccomodationism schism.
Category: Framing Science
Lousy Canuck has ramped up the metaphor with Two boats tethered together on a lake as his method of addressing the 1% solution. Also, there is now a very interesting post on Quiche Moraine regarding the Hollywood Case Study and the book Unscientific America. See...
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Accommodationists and New Atheists Sail in the Same Boat
Category: Framing Science
We all agree: when it comes to doing science, describing science and, yes, teaching science, take no prisoners.
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Are the "new atheists" not civil enough?
Category: Framing Science
There is an interesting post on The Intersection called Civility and the New Atheists, by Chris Mooney. In the post, Chris reviews Barbara Forrest's statements that in engaging int he cross-world-view debate (scientists vs. creationists, atheists, vs religion, etc.) one should maintian etiquette, respect and...
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Don't be such a scientist
Category: Framing Science
Randy Olson is a film maker and marine biologist who has focused in recent years on the critique of science communication. You may know him from his documentary work on the sexual practices of barnacles, the evolution-creation debate, or global warming. Randy is coming out...
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Richard Dawkins: Unethical?
Category: Education
Dawkins, for example, argues as a scientist that religion is comparable to a mental virus or "meme" that can be explained through evolution, that religious believers are delusional, and that in contrast, atheists are representative of a healthy, independent, and pro-science mind. In making these...
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First it was bear paternity tests, now it is volcano monitoring
Category: Politics
OK, so clearly the Republicans are mean spirited knowledge-free hypocrites and Jindal is therefore a great spokesperson for them. And Maria and Sciam are right. But everyone is missing the true irony here.
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Expelled! Induced Conversations and the Future of Science, Medicine and Hollywood
Despite the fact that the producers of Expelled! have the most nefarious of motives in mind, and that we can expect more from them (we are waiting for the other shoe to drop), it is interesting to note how many conversations this documentary about Intelligent...
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