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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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William Ayers was a young radical in the 1960s — this is admitted, accepted, and not in question at all. Now William Ayers is a respected academic, somebody who is no longer advocating violence, who is a crusader for social...
Posted on November 3, 2008 9:10 AM • 436 Comments
John Wilkins just had to ruin my morning. The bad news is that those of us who teach at small liberal arts institutions have significantly smaller bars than the averages there. The good news is that our football coaches also...
Posted on October 21, 2008 9:58 AM • 133 Comments
The Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference is in trouble — government support has been flat, and corporate support has been declining. They are really in trouble: here's what I got from one of the people working on it: The CUPC is...
Posted on October 14, 2008 6:17 AM • 27 Comments
This site, Academia.edu, is kind of nifty, but it'll be even niftier when more people join up. It's a web page that indexes academics, displaying them and their affiliations in a tree diagram. Play with it, if you're one of...
Posted on October 9, 2008 7:44 PM • 12 Comments
They just keep popping up all over the place…is there a tally somewhere? We should calculate how much of Darwin's genome is still floating about in the gene pool. Anyway, this several-times-great granddaughter of Darwin is Emma Darwin, and she...
Posted on October 2, 2008 1:09 AM • 27 Comments
Jebus, but we're in for a world of trouble. I think one of the signs of the apocalypse is when instructors of dangeral studies revive moribund blogs. We're obviously in a cultural meltdown of epic proportions....
Posted on September 30, 2008 1:55 PM • 40 Comments
Here it is the time of year when Minnesotans are reviewing the state science standards, and I'm off in California, shirking. At least Greg Laden is on top of things, and while there are some things that need to be...
Posted on September 26, 2008 11:58 AM • 46 Comments
This is cute: college professor is preparing a lecture on homology, rummages about on the internet to see if there are any useful or interesting sources, and finds one that leaves him bemused and amused at the prospect of using...
Posted on September 18, 2008 5:08 AM • 66 Comments
I'm impressed: Appalachian State University is celebrating the Darwin year with a lecture series of stellar quality. Between September and April, they are presenting talks by Eugenie Scott, Jay Hosler, Ken Miller, Janet Browne, Edward Larson, Sean Carroll, Elisabeth...
Posted on September 8, 2008 8:35 AM • 32 Comments
Adam Savage of the Mythbusters (the second most easily recognized scientists in the US, right after Bill Nye) has a short article up on Popular Mechanics on how to fix US science education. He only has 3 suggestions, but they're...
Posted on September 2, 2008 10:34 AM • 93 Comments
I mentioned this before, but time is running out and the full allotment of money hasn't been used up yet. If you go to the Big Think site and watch a video about inspiring scientists, Pfizer will spend a dollar...
Posted on August 29, 2008 4:20 PM • 24 Comments
Bless their sacrilegious little hearts, the students are trickling back onto campuses everywhere, and doing their part to stir up freethinking mischief. Skatje and Collin are going to be recruiting for the UMM Freethinkers tonight, offering the incoming freshman...
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Posted on August 26, 2008 5:05 PM • 429 Comments
MAJeff here with his espresso. A few years ago, when I was teaching back in Minnesota, there was a group of us first-year faculty who got together every Wednesday night for beer, pool, and chat. We had to switch bars...
Posted on August 13, 2008 6:36 AM • 104 Comments
Guest Blogger Danio: Stand up and cheer for the academic standards at UC, and the LA Federal Judge whose ruling on accrediting courses taught in Christian schools upholds these standards. A federal judge in Los Angeles has thrown out the...
Posted on August 12, 2008 12:12 PM • 467 Comments
This is how to do it: the Big Think project wants you to look over their inspirational science profiles and vote for one — and as a reward, they'll donate $1 to DonorsChoose, to fund educational projects. This is a...
Posted on August 7, 2008 1:28 PM • 35 Comments
