Dispatches from Dover

Genie Scott and Nick Matzke of the NCSE are podcasting from the Dover trial. Mp3s are available on the NCSE's Kitzmiller website. For some reason, the downloads seem to be running at sub-dialup speeds (I'm currently getting one at 1.3k per second - ouch), but they're still probably worth the download.

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