In 1998, 13 year old Mitchell Johnson and his 11 year old buddy Andrew Golden gunned down four students aged 11 and 12 and English Teacher Shannon Wright, and wounded 10 other people, at Jonesboro Westside Middle School. They had pulled the fire alarm to bring their victims into this trap. Continue reading Poster Child for Gun Law Reform Convicted
Daily Archives: January 31, 2008
Tatiana Update
Tatiana was the tiger that leaped from its enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, killing one and wounding others.Details of the investigation have been released, and apparently, the tiger was taunted. Continue reading Tatiana Update
Florida Yahoos Acting Out Against Evolutionary Biology
I wish we had more details of this story, but this is what we know so far: Continue reading Florida Yahoos Acting Out Against Evolutionary Biology
Are We In The Anthropocene? No.
Proposals to give the latter part of the present geological period (the Holocene) a new name … the Anthropocene … are misguided, scientifically invalid, and obnoxious. However, there is a use for a term that is closely related to “Anthropocene” and I propose that we adopt that term instead. Continue reading Are We In The Anthropocene? No.