May 2007
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It is a Blue Moon tonight at 9 pm EST →
It is a Blue Moon tonight at 9 pm Eastern.
WatchMicrosoft Announces Surface Computer
“Marge looks like an ordinary Friesian cow but has three key differences. She...”
– Meet Marge: The World’s First NonFat Dairy Cow
“Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize-winning former director of Fermilab, is a...”
– Symmetry - April 2007 - Masters of Improv
Why do flowers grow like so? →
Sean Carroll, evo devo and flowers
“If you are outraged as I am that Ken Ham’s Temple of Inanity is going to...”
– Pharyngula: The Creation Museum
Watchglumbert.com - High Power Job
Teller to magically make 'Macbeth’ a 'horror... →
Teller is fulfulling a long-held dream of staging Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” the way he believes it should be: as a “supernatural horror thriller.” He’s working with the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank, N.J., for an early 2008 debut.
“We throw a hypothesis out there — gravity is the curvature of spacetime,...”
– Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance
Science questions the presidential candidates... →
Does the Earth go around the sun? Do you prefer Newton’s law or Einstein’s theory of general relativity as a scientific explanation for gravity? Do you believe in quantum theory? What is the relationship between the wavelength of infrared radiation and the vibrational modes of carbon dioxide molecules? Do you believe that evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a serious...
Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles... →
Cool Picture
“Four factors stand out as important to the high rates of teacher turnover: low...”
– Richard M. Ingersoll, The Science and Mathematics Teacher Shortage: Fact and Myth
“The NSTA New Science Teacher Academy seeks to not only help reduce the high...”
– Gerry Wheeler, NSTA Executive Director
NPR's Science Friday: A New Generation of Light... →
good run down of pros and cons of CFLs
Global Challenge Award →
Contest links high school students worldwide
Google Search displays Timeline →
“There are very few jobs in life that operate with a bell,” said Principal...”
– It tolls not for them - The Boston Globe
“To me, the standardized education my child will get at school is foundational—a...”
– Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (“Daily Kos” Blogger)
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense →
And now the truth behind the bogus claims below:
Creationist Nonsense
1: Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.
2: Natural selection is based on circular reasoning: the fittest are those who survive, and those who survive are deemed fittest.
3: Evolution is unscientific, because it is not testable or falsifiable. It makes claims about events that were not observed and can never be re-created.
4: Increasingly, scientists doubt the truth of evolution.
5: The disagreements among even evolutionary biologists show how little solid science supports evolution.
6: If humans descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
7: Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on earth.
8: Mathematically, it is inconceivable that anything as complex as a protein, let alone a living cell or a human, could spring up by chance.
9: The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that systems must become more disordered over time. Living cells therefore could not have evolved from inanimate chemicals, and multicellular life could not have evolved from protozoa.
10: Mutations are essential to evolution theory, but mutations can only eliminate traits. They cannot produce new features.
11: Natural selection might explain microevolution, but it cannot explain the origin of new species and higher orders of life.
12: Nobody has ever seen a new species evolve.
13: Evolutionists cannot point to any transitional fossils--creatures that are half reptile and half bird, for instance.
14: Living things have fantastically intricate features--at the anatomical, cellular and molecular levels--that could not function if they were any less complex or sophisticated. The only prudent conclusion is that they are the products of intelligent design, not evolution.
15: Recent discoveries prove that even at the microscopic level, life has a quality of complexity that could not have come about through evolution.
Shipwreck Yields Estimated $500M Haul →
Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have hauled up what could be the richest sunken treasure ever discovered: hundreds of thousands of colonial-era silver and gold coins worth an estimated $500 million from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.
TRANSFORMERS Trailer →
“wuchtchachacha” I’m so excited for this movie!
Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - New... →
26 most common climate myths and misconceptions
“The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released the first guide for high school...”
– Union of Concerned Scientists Releases “Scientific Integrity Curriculum Guide”
“A performance of the L.A. Theatre Works production The Great Tennessee Monkey...”
– The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial on-line
WatchRube Goldberg Machine for Pyromaniacs
“Every time we read block text, we’re forcing our brain to a wage a constant...”
– Live Ink offers better way to read text online
Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed →
“iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering...”
– iPods can make pacemakers malfunction - CNN.com
“For many children and young adults, global warming is the atomic bomb of...”
– FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Climate-Controlled Classroom
“When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of...”
– Slashdot | Ceiling Height May Affect Problem-Solving Skills
Oshkosh Northwestern - Solar Olympics heat up UWO →
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