Posted in In The News, Opinion on Nov 10th, 2005
[Budget Cuts, Education, Student Aid]Today, NPR ran a story about the government’s looking to cut back on education funding in order to pay for the Katrina hurricane relief and the war in Iraq. Specifically mentioned in the story are cutbacks on federal funding to public school, specifically the free and reduced price lunch program, […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Nov 9th, 2005
[Creationism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kansas, Psuedoscience, Religion, Science]Yesterday’s election results are in, but the biggest news is not who won the governership in New Jersey or Virginia, but instead what the Kansas School Board is again doing to their science education curriculum. This time, they’ve made two major changes to their standards: 1) […]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 8th, 2005
[Civilization, Human Nature, Paris, Riots]I’ve been following the US media response to the now 12 days of rioting in Paris very closely. France, who has been belittled so often in our media, now seems to be falling apart (as is most certainly not the case, but so little news comes out of France to […]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 7th, 2005
[Conservation, Environment, Healthcare, Ideological Divide]Few major issues in modern US politics have historically been as ideologically divided as Universal Healthcare and Global Warming. However, there is an emerging common ground between the two extremes on both of these issues. This development (particularly from the standpoint of a long-time supporter) is heartening in light […]
Posted in Announcements on Nov 5th, 2005
[RSS, Tags]Just two quick notes:
1) As you may have seen, I’ve rearranged the location of the Technorati tags to the top of each entry. While this is slightly distracting, I’ve noticed that some traffic to this blog has come from some specific-interest websites, so to accommodate those who only want to read entries about […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 4th, 2005
[Composting, Environment]A company called Nature Mill manufactures a composting unit that fits nicely in your kitchen, and uses only 10 watts of power, or about $0.65/month (at my electricity rates). It can compost most everything in the kitchen, including shredded paper (that’s what I can do with my old receipts that I shred!), meats […]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 3rd, 2005
[Popular Science, Science]I came across an inspiring article entitled “13 things that do not make sense” which highlights some of the great mysteries within major scientific disciplines. While some of the details are inevitably a bit simplistic, the author communicates complicated ideas well. This multi-disciplinary perspective got me thinking about the value of popular science […]
