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07 December 2007

Texas Eduation Agency and Chris Comer, Part 10

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In addition to speaking on Science Friday, Chris Comer is interviewed by an Austin TV station, News 8 Austin. The video link is incorrect, ...

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 9

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Today (Friday, 7 December), Chris Comer is scheduled to appear on Science Friday on America's National Public Radio (NPR). It's sla...
06 December 2007

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 8

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The Austin American-Statesman , the paper that broke the story on Chris Comer's resignation from the Texas Education agency, has an impo...
05 December 2007

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 7

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One of the triggers for the resignation of Chris Comer from the Texas Education Agency was that she forwarded an email about a presentation ...

War on fools

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An anonymous author at Slant Six Creative argues : Always let a fool have the last word. I was reminded of the first rule of arguing with a ...

Last lecture of semester

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...is now done. Hooray. Now, to catch up on proposals, marking, manuscripts, grant management...

Research is hard

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Errol Morris investigates what appears to be a simple question: Which of those two photos was taken first? Finding the answer is long and h...

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 6

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More editorials today. Houston State Chronicle : It will be more than sad if the Texas Education Agency is leaning toward taking an anti-evo...
04 December 2007

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 5

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The Comer situation continues to attract attention since the story broke at the end of last week. Today sees multiple newspaper editorials a...
03 December 2007

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Oh, now this is a great news story to start the week with. A mummified dinosaur with skin and maybe some soft tissue preserved. Wonderful!...

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 4

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Chris Comer has now given the first interviews since the story broke about her resignation from the Texas Education Agency. Of particular n...
02 December 2007

Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 3

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The Texas Freedom Network has a clear political bent. Their logo on their webpage announces, "A mainstream voice to counter the religio...
01 December 2007

Abbreviations

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Some of colleagues might know what JEB is. * Many would not. Many publishers, to save space, abbreviate journal titles in scientific arti...

Sesame Street ruined my life

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It must have. Because I watched it a lot as a kid,learning the alphabet and numbers. And some of those early episodes of Sesame Street are n...
30 November 2007

The Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, continued

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Political narratives become established quickly. I mentioned yesterday's worrying new story about Chris Comer, a member of the Texas Edu...
29 November 2007

Disturbing news story in Texas

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In today's Austin American-Statesman , " State science curriculum director resigns -- Move comes months before comprehensive curric...

The Zen of Presentations, Part 12: Being a good audience

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When scientists give talks, we usually do it in flocks. Conferences. Where you’re one of several talks in a row. A few conferences can yiel...
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28 November 2007

Abandoning evidence

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The National Center for Science Education links to Hanna Rosin's article on creation geology . This quote on page 4 by young Earth crea...
27 November 2007

Degrees of faith

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Paul Davies wrote in an editorial for the New York Times over the weekend: But until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws o...
24 November 2007

There ought to be a parade

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In Carolyn Porco's Ted talk (below), she talks about the landing of the space probe Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan. I recomm...
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