Evolution in the High School Science Class

John Hawks discusses the trouble with the lack of Evolution teaching in High School Biology classes.
What really does concern me is the absolute minimal amount of time that high school biology courses spend on evolution. Without evolution, biology really lacks any mechanism to talk about cause and variation — dissecting a fetal pig may help [...]

Video Games of the Future: Wii 2.0

Seriously cool.

FOX News vs. Obama: Racist Bastards

It’s always been amazing to me that people actually watch FOX news and believe what they’re hearing.  I think FOX has the right to be as insane in the membrane as they want to be.  What I lament is the huge swath of Americans who buy into it.  It says something deeply negative about our [...]

Does Economics Need a Facelift?

An article on Sciam.com makes the case that economics as an empirical subject field was founded on soon-to-be outdated physics and is currently wholly unscientific which leads to a stifling of otherwise “viable economic solutions for global warming and other menacing environmental problems.”
The strategy the economists used was as simple as it was absurd—they substituted [...]

Wedding Bells for a Novelist

My friend Steve Libbey, the Portland based Novelist, is getting married, and what better way to congratulate him than to read his new novel, The Bloodbaths (OK, not a title that brings the sounds of wedding joy to mind, but it’s still cool). Or, you can get into his podcast series that he’s writing [...]

Eddie Izzard, Star Wars, and Legos: The Best Mix Ever

Hot Damn, I love Eddie Izzard.

Quote of the Day: Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

Graduation Day, Hurry Up Already!

Carson gets on his fancy robes to see off his students for graduation one of whom is quite a good writer and (as she should) likes political penguins (here & here).
On a similar note, I’m nearing the end of my Undergraduate work, and am about to (in Fall) enter the Mathematics graduate program here at [...]

Hillary for Vice President?

Hillary Clinton is now letting it be known that she would consider being Obama’s Vice President, but she’s still got the country at heart.
“Of course she was interested in being president, but she’s just as interested in making sure Democrats get elected in November.”
If she can with that line of reasoning, then whether she is [...]