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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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This little cartoon is so funny and yet so true.
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Posted on: March 30, 2007 1:16 PM, by David Ng
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So, let me get this straight -- if we now go to war with Iran, it's because the Bush Administration has a scientific mindset?
Posted by: Michael Burton | March 30, 2007 2:41 PM
Surely a good scientist would experiment with different ways of pulling the lever - different hands, fingers, feet, by rope, and getting other scientists to try.
And it the Bush administration had a scientific mindset, it might try something differentwith each war.
Posted by: Kapitano | March 31, 2007 12:28 PM