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TG Daily - Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah
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Junior Achievement surveyed US kids aged 12-17 and asked them to choose the entrepreneur they most admired from a list provided. Surprisingly, teens chose a business legend from the technology sector over fashionistas, Facebook and even the Queen of Daytime. Steve Jobs was selected over Tony Hawk, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kimora Lee Simmons, Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg.
Bridging Differences: Why School? Rethinking Essentials
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More important than why we test is "Why School?". It's the title of Mike Rose's latest wonderful book (The New Press). What I want to argue out with you, and our readers, is the nature of the kind of curriculum or subject matter for which schools in a democratic society, funded by public monies, should be held accountable. What can we demonstrate is essential for 100 percent of all voters—18-year-olds—to understand?
Curriculum Matters: New Film About Darwin Finds U.S. Distributor
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"We at Newmarket pride ourselves in getting behind important films that help open the door for discussion and conversation, as is the case with 'Creation,' said Newmarket's Chris Ball. " While Darwin's name has come to symbolize one side of a debate between the scientific and the theological, 'Creation' depicts the man as the debate in total, with both sides contending, sometimes violently, within him. In that sense, we believe that the film will appeal to people of faith and people of science. "
Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin | Salon Life
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On that rich-with-gravitas promotional clip, Cameron begins by declaring, “Our kids can no longer pray in public,” a provocative and completely inaccurate assertion, as anyone familiar with the term “public” knows. He then narrows in for the killer point: “A recent study revealed that in the top 50 universities in our country, in the fields of psychology and biology, 61 percent of the professors described themselves as atheist or agnostic.” True, though he fails to point out that the same study found only 23.4 percent of college professors overall declare themselves atheist or agnostic. College: still pretty damn godly!
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Of course, plenty of people, from Darwin himself to Pope Benedict, have been able to reconcile religious beliefs with a respect for the profound elegance of science.
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Texas Textbook Hearings | TPMMuckraker
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history textbook hearing by the State Board of Education down in Austin, Texas.
Those are the standards on which -- it can't be repeated enough -- publishers base their nationwide textbooks, and the ones that currently contain a clause requiring knowledge of Newt Gingrich.
The shareholder value voter
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conservatism is not just a movement, it's an industry. In the intersection of science and US policy, there is no better funded industry than climate change denial. It is bankrolled by the most profitable multinational corporations in world history. And to hear the far right talk about it at the recent Values Voters Summit, Jesus must be a major shareholder.
GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA: THE NEW FACE OF THE "PRO-DEATH" AGENDA
Dr. Calvin Beisner, National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
• Why did the President's science advisor support coerced abortions to protect the planet?
• Why are top abortion funders underwriting efforts to co-opt evangelicals on global warming?
• If "people are the problem," what's the final solution?
Cap and trade is about more than saving the planet. It's the biggest tax hike in American history. It threatens to concentrate massive amounts of power into the hands of central government and international bureaucrats. And its ascendancy marks the rise of a new, more subtle challenge to the culture of life.
Ultimately, climate change hysteria rests on an unbiblical view of God, mankind, and the environment. Come and hear how the Cornwall Alliance is pushing back--producing ground-breaking studies on Biblical environmentalism, educating pastors and churches across the country, and activating thousands of Christians to rally against the hype through the WeGetIt.org Campaign. Learn why policies to fight alleged man-made global warming will instead cause hundreds of millions of premature deaths throughout this century, and how human liberty, responsibility, and flourishing are the key to a healthier environment.
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The Values Voters organizers are either unaware, or simply don’t care, that many conservatives, including George Bush, have now stated they accept that climate change is occurring and that some of it might be due to human activity. It’s textbook right-wing denial, married with a heaping helping of hypocrisy to frame climate change as part of a ‘pro-death agenda’ that will cause ‘hundreds of millions of premature deaths’ while implying that it’s the climate scientists who are blinded with hysteria.
The Climate's Warm Future Is Now in the Arctic: Scientific American
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When the summer sea ice goes, the Arctic will lose the ivory gull, Pacific walrus, ringed seal, hooded seal, narwhal and polar bear—all animals that rely on the ice for foraging, reproduction or as refuge from predators. And the sea ice is going, faster and faster: In the past 30 years, minimum sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has declined by 45,000 square kilometers annually*—an area twice the size of New Jersey is lost each year.
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Rapid change is coming even for animals once thought to be relatively immune, such as caribou. Whereas the nonmigratory population of the animals on the Norwegian Svalbard Islands is burgeoning thanks to more winter snowmelt exposing a greater abundance of plant life for foraging, caribou in other parts of the Arctic are suffering. In spring, plants are blooming earlier in the year thanks to warmer early spring temperatures, but caribou are still calving at the same time, meaning calves are born after most of the food is available, and therefore fewer of them survive.
SkyandTelescope.com - News from Sky & Telescope - Stellar Mystery Solved, Einstein Safe
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For more than 30 years, Villanova University astronomer Ed Guinan has been plagued, puzzled, and perplexed by DI Herculis. On the surface, this binary star seems pretty much like any other binary star, with two stars going 'round and 'round each other in a predictable, orderly fashion. But there remained a nagging problem that as much as Guinan wanted, he couldn't just sweep under the rug: DI Her was not behaving in accordance with Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Researchers discover first rocky planet outside our solar system
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"This is science at its thrilling and amazing best," says Didier Queloz, leader of the team that made the observations.
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Because the calculated density is so similar to Earth’s, the researchers believe that the planet’s composition is comparably rocky.
Conditions on CoRoT-7b are much more extreme, though. Because it’s so close to its host star, researchers believe temperatures there could not support life.
The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com
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The Newspaper Clipping Generator
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA: Warmest Global Sea-Surface Temperatures for August and Summer
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The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern Hemisphere summer/Southern
New Media, New School Year . . . and a New Resource | Edutopia
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We want to help you make the most of the latest technologies and innovative ways to use them as we settle into the 2009-10 school year, so we've put together a brand new free resource (PDF) for you: Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media.
Full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st century success, this guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education that all students deserve.
Wise Up, America — Big Think
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Dr. Gardner warns that a failure to encourage a sense of altruism amongst Americans could signal the end of the US as a moral leader for the world.
Living in Dialogue: An Urban Teacher Tells us Why She Must Leave
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There need to be fewer bodies in the classroom at one time. Math and English classes have reduced class sizes (at the most 20) because our country and state have deemed them more important subjects than history or science.
No Math Teacher Shortage, Study Says - X=Why? - A year re-living high school math with Michael Alison Chandler
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“I admit I’m being heretical,” said Richard M. Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the university. “But it’s not that we’re producing too few math and science teachers. It’s that we’re losing too many.”
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Mr. Ingersoll and his research partner, David Perda, calculate that colleges and universities are producing 2½ times more math and science teachers than schools require to replace those who are retiring.
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Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' - Telegraph
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Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
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Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian
perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a
racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder".
His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led
to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering",
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Major Blunder in Science Reporting will Fuel Creationist Claims : Greg Laden's Blog
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Life Science Teachers: Take special note!
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It turns out that a study of these different depositional environments, in the paper by Swart, indicates that the two data sources behave differently and the non-ocean bottom deposits cannot be used as they previously were. As a result of this, our understanding of the history of the Earth's carbon cycle has gone all topsy-turvy and now needs to be re-examined.
Science marches on. This assertion by Swart will be tested, challenged, and if he is wrong, tossed out or modified. At the same time, people will be working on reassessing the pre 150 mya record. There is a lot of work to do an if it is really true that the pre 150 mya record is borked, this means that we will soon be exposed to a new and different (presumably) understanding of early life on earth! Cool!
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YouTube - Experiments & Bias in science
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Science is often seen as only an experimental endeavor, yet both observational and experimental science provide insight. Also, most think scientists strive to be unbiased, but this is simply not p..
A Theory of Dark Matter
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Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The galaxies are observed in the optical (shown in orange and white). Most of the normal mass in the clusters (pink) is associated with gas heated in their collision. Dark matter is not visible, but is inferred (blue) from gravitational lensing effects
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