Yearly Archives: 2011
After Pushing “Climategate,” Fox Ignores Study Confirming Temp. Record
A new study confirming the accuracy of existing global temperature records has been ignored by the all the major television news outlets, except for one mention in a CNN news brief. But the omission is most conspicuous at Fox News, which routinely casts doubt on the temperature data, accuses climate scientists of doctoring research to exaggerate global warming, and often just makes up its own temperature facts….
(‘John ‘McCarthy)
(‘born ‘1927)
(‘championed ‘ai)
(‘created ‘lisp)
(‘thought-up ‘space-elevator)
(‘won ‘turing-award)
(‘died ‘oct-23-2011)
Ooops… we left all the children behind
“No Child Left Behind” was doomed to be a failure, because it was ill concieved, politically cynical, and underfunded. But like the War in Iraq, the Patriot Act and Tax Breaks for the Rich, and all the other initiatives of the Bush Administration that never should have happened, we have been saddled with this melt down of a policy for over a decade. “NCLB” was one of the first policies implemented by Bush.
The evidence that the approaches developed under this policy have failed has been mounting for years, and the supporters of NCLB have been dropping like flies on no-pest strip. The latest and perhaps most important policy related statement to date has just come out, and it is a study published by the National Academies of Science: Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education by Michael Hout and Stuart W. Elliott, Editors; Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education; National Research Council.
And the study says …
Continue reading Ooops… we left all the children behind
Skeptical Zombie Attack!!!11!!
DJ Grothe and JREF vs. Psychic James Van Praagh.
Bwahahahahaha!!!
Below the fold because of the blood and gore.
Is Findings any good?
Looks interesting, but so far my “highlighting” in ebooks is fairly quirky and has to do with specific objectives I have that others may not know. In other words, sharing them would be potentially problematic considering how easy and common it is to take anyone’s words off the web and get all whingy about them.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
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One still on run in Florida after double prison break
A Statue Of Jesus In A National Forest Violates Church-State Separation
In a postcard-worthy spot on Big Mountain in Montana stands a statue of Jesus Christ. The statue is in close proximity to Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Mont., and it has been something of a curiosity to skiers over the years.
The statue was put there more than 50 years ago by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, to honor World War II veterans.
Problem is the statue is on land that is part of a national forrest, so its placement constitutes a church-state separation violation. The U.S. Forest Service had planned to remove the statue after receiving a complaint from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) until it learned why the statue had been placed there.
Morning Joe Mocking Rick Perry
I am not a big fan of Morning Joe, but this is fun:
Gun Nuts Attack NRA
Let’s just hope this does not lead to anyone … targeting anyone.
My Blog Post on Global Warming Won an Award!!!
w00t! My blog post on Urban Heat Islands has won the prestigious Editor’s Selection Award from ResearchBlogging.org News!
See the awarding blog post here, and the awarded blog post here.
Thank you Sarah Kendrew.
Two other posts won the award as well: Ovarian Cancer at Microfluidic Future and In Praise of the Comet at the.soft.anonymous. I suppose we will be splitting the prize money.
“Copiale Cipher” Cracked
It is a document linked to a secret society.
Michele Bachmann on Health Care
“We will always have people in this country, through hardship, through no fault of their own, who won’t be able to afford health care. That’s just the way it is.”
Here’s the video:
Bachmann’s solution for health care: Get in a time machine and go back to when medicine was cheap.
See Bachmann on the spot in Iowa. As pointed out by Avidor, this could be why Bachmann hasn’t held more tan one town hall meeting in her own district.
Five Dollars. Indeed. Have a sandwich, Michele:
Michele Bachmann Campaign in Death Spiral
Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign staff, noting that their main goal was still to make sure that Obama is a “one term president,” has walked away from Michele Bachmann’s campaign citing disgruntlement with Bachmann’s national campaign staff.