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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
The opinions expressed here are his own, do not reflect the official position of the NCSE. Indeed, older posts may no longer reflect his own official position.
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August 27, 2010
The Times takes on current debates in linguistics, and asks: But 70 years on, it is surely time to put the trauma of Whorf behind us. All I can think is: "Never! The House of Mogh is dishonored for seven generations!" Then I remembered that Duras ultimately did get the rightful blame for the Khitomer massacre, and I felt better about it....
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August 8, 2010
Category: Chatter
And that somebody's me! If this post goes up when I scheduled it to, the ceremony will have just started. It's been a crazy year of planning, but everything seems ready to go as planned. Tomorrow we go on a honeymoon and I'm obliged to leave my computer behind, so no blogging until late August. Debbie and I are both particularly grateful to Judge Vaughan Walker for the early wedding present he gave us this week. His decision striking down the hateful Proposition 8 is filled with powerful reminders of the importance of marriage in society at large, and...
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August 2, 2010
Category: Academia
T. Ryan Gregory asks this important question: Who is a scientist? It's a followup to a post titled: "Graduate students are not professional scientists. Discuss," which – briefly – argued that grad students are scientists in training, not yet scientists-full-stop. In the later post, he explains: Here are the criteria I threw out off-handedly for the purpose of discussing the NYT story about science blogs [this one -Josh]: - Does scientific research for a living, - Publishes research in peer-reviewed journals, - Is funded by granting agencies to do it, - Does not just write about it, or study it,...
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August 1, 2010
Category: Policy and Politics
Deepwater Horizon Alarm Intentionally Disabled: Testifying before a federal panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Transocean employee Michael Williams said that an alarm designed to warn the crew if combustible gases were in danger of igniting was deliberately disabled. … Williams also told the panel that the computers used to control drilling operations on the rig froze regularly, resulting in blank blue screens, a phenomenon he said he and fellow employees ominously labeled, "the blue screen of death."Seriously, Microsoft is not to be trusted....
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