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Darwin Day 2010 at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University’s Department of Biological Sciences and Law School are jointly sponsoring a panel discussion on February 19th. Click through for details.
Wilson County, Tennessee schools agree to end Bible distribution
Another victory for religious freedom.
So here’s the setup: one day, in Wilson County, Tennessee, the principal of Carroll-Oakland Elementary School brings all the students from the whole school into the gym, where she introduces representatives of the Gideons and explains why they are there, and then proceeds to tell the whole student body about the [...]
Also posted in Church and State, Family, Freedoms / Rights, Government / Law, Religion
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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.
Also posted in Books, History, Internet, Science
Tagged darwin, evolution, 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.
Why is education always the first thing threatened by budget cuts?
If this isn’t a great national crisis, I don’t know what is. It’s sadly indicative of what our culture truly values when you see stories from across the nation indicating that education is still one of the first things lawmakers want to cut when money gets tight at the state level.
Here in Tennessee, budget shortfalls [...]
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Women narrowing gap in science and math
Cornelia Dean, writing in the New York Times:
The prospects for women who are scientists and engineers at major research universities have improved, although women continue to face inequalities in salary and accessto some other resources, a panel of the National Research Council concludes in a new report.
In recent years “men and women faculty in science, [...]
Also posted in Men / Women, Science
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Nashville schools sued over block on gay web sites
Metropolitan Nashville and Knox County school districts are being sued for blocking so-called “pro-gay” web sites. The school districts do not block so-called “anti-gay” websites.
Also posted in Freedoms / Rights, Nashville, Social Commentary, Tennessee, Wacky Shit
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Tennessee to begin random drug testing of students in 6-12 grades?
A bill before the Tennessee legislature would allow random drug testing of any students engaged or seeking to become engaged in voluntary extracurricular activities.
The Tennessean:
HB 1508/SB 0074, sponsored by Rep. Les Winningham, D-Huntsville, and Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, goes before key committees this week.It would give the drug-testing authorization to local school districts and target [...]
Plan B to be available to 17 year olds
Good first step an undoing Reverend Bush’s restrictions limiting the sale of the (non-abortive, sorry, but those are the facts) contraceptive to those over the age of 18.
Associated Press:
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge’s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of “Plan B” [...]
Wilson County Christian group not content with Constitutional equality
You may recall the Wilson County “pole strokers”–a parent-led prayer group who seemingly can only talk to their god from the general area of the flagpole in front of a public school in Wilson County, Tennessee. You may also recall that the Wilson County School System not long ago cost the taxpayers of Wilson County [...]
Pope sticks to the script in Africa, dogma more important than lives
On Tueday, Pope Benedict XVI, had this to say about the pervasive and widespread AIDS crisis in Africa:
“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”
Sweet evil Jesus! Just throw more gasoline on the fucking fire [...]
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Your god isn’t pro-life
Excellent piece by Daniel Florien at Unreasonable Faith.
For years, I’ve had only a few things to say about the heated and contentious issue of abortion. First and foremost, I don’t “believe in it”. As I’ve said before, I am simply unable to think of a set of circumstances where (given the choice) it would be [...]