I came across this chilling misanthropic missive in support of home schooling.
Continue reading Why Should You Home School Your Children?
Daily Archives: February 7, 2008
Help out a guy looking for a job
This person needs a job.This individual seeks an executive position.He will be available in January 2009, and is willing to relocate.(Resume below the fold)
Ben Dunlap: The story of a passionate life
Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. In telling Teszler’s dramatic life story, which arcs from the Holocaust to the American Deep South of the 1950s, Dunlap shares some deep and, ultimately, moving lessons about justice — and the power of lifelong learning. Sit back and listen. Continue reading Ben Dunlap: The story of a passionate life
Charles Darwin Legacy 4
The Real Reason that Peer Review is Anonymous
Whenever I’ve reviewed a paper for publication, I always remind myself that I don’t want to be the guy who reads only the good 75% of the paper, and skips over the 25% that contains some egregious error or insane reasoning. Apparently not everyone thinks that. Continue reading The Real Reason that Peer Review is Anonymous
Important Message from the National Treasury
[Hat tip: JoAnn]
A Case Against Home School Athletes
If you’re ineligible to walk across the stage in your cap and gown, then you should be ineligible to walk on the field with your cap and glove.
Giant Shark Freaks Out Oceanographers
The video of the shark is cool, but to me it’s just a video of a shark. But listen to the commentary and you realize that this is a big deal. Five or six meters long, a head a meter wide, something really interesting about its gill slits. I’m glad these guys are having so much fun! Continue reading Giant Shark Freaks Out Oceanographers
Robots Send Expedition to Antarctica
A robotic observatory installed at a high-altitude site in Antarctica will search for planets orbiting other stars and test the site’s potential for more ambitious observatories that could follow. The site may offer the best astronomical sky conditions in the world….During the uninterrupted darkness of winter near the South Pole, CSTAR will be able to monitor a 20-square-degree patch of sky – about 100 times the area of the Full Moon – for four months straight. It will look for the dimming of a star’s light caused by a planet passing in front of it as seen from Earth.Astronomers involved in the PLATO project believe Dome A may be the best site in the world for astronomy, and PLATO is designed primarily to measure key characteristics like the amount of turbulence in the air, which can distort astronomical images, and the amount of water vapour, which blocks out light in the infrared and radio parts of the spectrum.[source]
Intelligent Design Proponents are Filthy Liars
… as if you didn’t know…At Panda’s Thumb, there
is a guest post by Daniel R. Brooks, FRSC. Brooks is a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. In June 2007 he attended an apparently secret conference organized by ID advocates and entitled the “Wistar Retrospective Symposium.”
This is quite an interesting read, and will make your blood boil. Read it and weep. . Or seethe.This is part of the reason that the Blogging Peer Reviewed Research people do not need to explain why intelligent design material or Discovery Institute blogs are not valid BPR3 links. Not because of what is wrong with the writing itself, but rather, … how many times, now many ways can I make this point …. would you play Wagner at a Jewish Wedding? I don’t think so.Hat Tip, and important commentary, at Pharyngula
Has a fifth cable been cut?
An ambiguous report from Dubai suggests that a total of five undersea cables have been cut.
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.[source]
I have not seen any other information on this.
Darwin and the Voyage: 04 ~ Darwin Gets his Wellies Wet
I became acquainted with an Englishman who was going to visit his estate … more than a hundred miles [north] of Cape Frio. As I was quite unused to travelling, I gladly accepted his kind offer of allowing me to accompany him.
And so was the case with a number of Darwin’s excursions into the bush. Continue reading Darwin and the Voyage: 04 ~ Darwin Gets his Wellies Wet