April 30, 2008 at 9:22 am · Filed under Education, Ethics, Politics and Policy, Religion and Philosophy, Science and tagged: Ethics, Evolution, Politics
The state of Florida has just fallen off the flat, 6,000 year old earth they think we all live on (which, by the way we don’t). Florida’s House and Senate just passed legislation pushing religion into the science curriculum. Despite the claim of “academic freedom”, all Florida has done is to show that A) their state government, at least, is run by idiots; and B) they have condemned their students to receiving substandard science education.
Got kids in Florida? You may want to move.
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April 29, 2008 at 8:44 am · Filed under People and the Environment, Science and tagged: Environment, Science
How do you go about saving the rain forests? There are lots of issues embedded in this question. Who would have thought that fruit bats would be one of them?
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April 28, 2008 at 9:11 am · Filed under People and the Environment, Science and tagged: Environment, Health, Science
A very interesting article has just been published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology on the role of protozoa in essentially “gluing” bacteria to the surfaces of lettuce, spinach and possibly other vegetables. Why is this interesting and why is it important? Because, it could help explain why we have seen an increase in the rate of food-borne illnesses attributed to produce in recent years.
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