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07 Aug 09

“And Now Your Moment of Zen”: The Cultural Significance of The Daily Show < Features | PopMatters

  • when it’s done well, comedy in this country can become a counterbalance to journalism, like journalism is a counterbalance to government
  • To be sure, humor is what it is because it’s rooted in some larger complex truth. Jokes are a palatable way of examining those things about ourselves, either culturally or individually, that may otherwise not be so easy to stomach. A successful joke operates as a kind of reductio ad absurdum, highlighting the deceptively large gap between language and meaning.
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06 Jul 09

Op-Ed Columnist - A Journalist’s ‘Actual Responsibility’ - NYTimes.com

  • No news aggregator tells of the ravaged city exhaling in the dusk, nor summons the defiant cries that rise into the night. No miracle of technology renders the lip-drying taste of fear. No algorithm captures the hush of dignity, nor evokes the adrenalin rush of courage coalescing, nor traces the fresh raw line of a welt.
  • I have been thinking about the responsibility of bearing witness. It can be singular, still. Interconnection is not presence.
06 Feb 09

State Board of Education debates evolution curriculum | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Legislature

  • The focus of the debate was whether to require that weaknesses as well as strengths in the theory of evolution be taught in high school biology classes under new state curriculum standards for science.
  • Evolution critics – backed by several board members – want the strengths and weaknesses requirement included in the standards, arguing there are many flaws in Charles Darwin's theory of how humans and other life-forms evolved.
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In Texas, a Line in the Curriculum Revives Evolution Debate - NYTimes.com

  • Texas is one of the nation’s biggest buyers of textbooks, and publishers are reluctant to produce different versions of the same material.
  • the board would force textbook publishers to include what skeptics see as weaknesses in Darwin’s theory to sow doubt about science and support the Biblical version of creation.
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06 Jun 08

Why Not Perpetual Progress? - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog

  • One of the most common mistakes of technoprophets is to assume that the the technology du jour will shape the future.
  • after watching the impact of computers on so many fields, I share Mr. Kurzweil’s belief that these tools are especially transformative and that change is just going to accelerate.
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