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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Best. Finish. Ever.
Call me what you will, but there’s just almost nothing better than seeing your team–in my case, the Tennessee Titans–cap off a 99-yard two-minute drive with a 4th and goal play run with :06 seconds left on the clock and on that play watching your first round draft pick rookie wide receiver make a fantastic [...]
150 years of natural selection… well, you know what I mean
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published 150 years ago today.
Darwin goes digital: Rare drafts go online
The Darwin Manuscripts Project has digitized not only drafts of the seminal “On the Origin of Species”, but also notebooks and scientific writings from the time Darwin spent on the HMS Beagle, among other writings.
Posted in Books, Education, History, Internet, Science
Tagged darwin, evolution, interthingy
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Will secret copyright treaty restrict your digital rights?
Most Americans expect that their laws are only passed after some period of public debate between Republicans and Democrats or their news-channel proxies. However, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may be an exception to this rule, and if it is signed, many United States laws concerning the Internet and ownership of data may become substantively [...]
Posted in Arts, Books, Government / Law, Movies, Music, Technology, Television
Tagged copyright, interthingy
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Barbara Forrest on the La. Science Education Act
Talk about grabbing the reader from the very first sentence:
Resistance to the teaching of evolution is an integral part of the history of American anti-intellectualism, which stems in great part from religious fundamentalism.
Posted in Education, History, Politics, Religion
Tagged creationism, louisiana, schools
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I’ve given the old girl a facelift…
Welcome to my new WordPress theme. Why a new theme? Well, as the old adage goes, if you want something done right, do it yourself.
You know, when I started playing around with this blog, I made a quick pass through the WordPress Free Themes Directory and selected the closest thing to what I had in [...]
Support for same-sex marriage by age and state
The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it’s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones at the bottom of the table), there is still a significant age difference: 18-29 year-olds in Alabama, [...]