Fired for not being neutral about evolution
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:47:06 -0800 (PST)
NYT
December 3, 2007
Official Leaves Post as Texas Prepares to Debate Science Education
Standards
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
HOUSTON, Dec. 2 -- After 27 years as a science teacher and 9 years as
the Texas Education Agency's director of science, Christine Castillo
Comer said she did not think she had to remain "neutr ...
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Reducing English to Abbreviations
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:34:24 -0800 (PST)
A fascinating article on the wide spread use of abbreviations in India
http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-30319920071104 ...
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Prosopagnosia
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:16:39 -0800 (PST)
By Andrea Gawrylewski
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Facelessness Faced
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After giving a lecture in Windsor, England last February,
neuroscientist Bradley
Duchaine was approach ...
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What word should we use for the universe of universes?
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:03:27 -0800 (PST)
A recent New Scientist had an article on a "void" in the universe that
may be a point of contact with another universe.
These days multiple universes are postulated with great ease. They are
ubiquitous.
Even if multiple universes are infinite in number, we surely need a
word for the totality of universes that ...
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Flynn on the Flynn effect
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:59:48 -0800 (PST)
see
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/flynn-restak.html ...
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Re: Govt loses personal details of half the country!
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:22:17 -0800 (PST)
On 2 Dec, 08:15, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 9:49 am, pas...@blueyonder.co.ruk (Peter Ashby) wrote:
>
> > > How is it self delusion? Was Alexander Solzhenytsyn self deluded? Or
> > > Viktor Frankl? Seneca? Epictetus? Or were these men perhaps (surely
> > > not :-)
>
> > Where do ...
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Re: Govt loses personal details of half the country!
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:15:54 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 2, 9:49 am, pas...@blueyonder.co.ruk (Peter Ashby) wrote:
>
> > How is it self delusion? Was Alexander Solzhenytsyn self deluded? Or
> > Viktor Frankl? Seneca? Epictetus? Or were these men perhaps (surely
> > not :-)
>
> Where does Solzhenytsyn say that the Gulag was safe and relaxing? I read
> the whole ...
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Re: Govt loses personal details of half the country!
Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:49:55 GMT
Paul Grieg <pgrieg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 1 Dec, 06:21, "Peter H.M.Brooks" <pe...@news.co.za> wrote:
> > Peter Ashby wrote:
> >
> > > How do you relax properly in that sort of atmosphere? My wife said I
> > > became much more relaxed after moving up here, I can't imagine what I
> > > would have been like now.. ...
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Concentrating solar power
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:22:36 -0800 (PST)
Apparently, it's all done with mirrors:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/02/renewableenergy.solarpower ...
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Thin-skinned gods...
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:18:26 GMT
I'm sure everyone here has heard an been appalled by the imprisonment of a
teacher for allowing a teddy to be called "Mohammed", and the subsequent
clamour for her execution for this "crime".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7122323.stm
Why is it that gods are so thin-skinned that their supporters need ...
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