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24 Aug 09
Op-Ed Contributor - A Grand Bargain Over Evolution - NYTimes.com
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an underestimation of natural selection’s creative power clouds the vision not just of the intensely religious but also of the militantly atheistic
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human moral sense — the sense that there is such a thing as right and wrong
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26 Apr 08
A Nation at a Loss - New York Times
A look at "A Nation At Risk" and its assumptions about how economic success is tied to educational success.
07 May 07
Environment - New York Times
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Please, tone it done. The world is in terrible shape right now. Global warming isn’t another happy opportunity for marketing clothes, candles and sustainable weddings or for green-washing your bad corporate karma.
It’s not about having a moment for the environment, either.
It’s about a lifetime.
08 Feb 07
Can Washington get smart about science? - Los Angeles Times
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In truth, there was nothing wrong with inventing science studies; the error was to leap from the valid observation that science arises in a social context to the extreme conclusion that it is nothing more than politics in disguise.
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TO ADDRESS this new crisis over the relationship between science and politics, we propose a combination of political activism and institutional reform.
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31 Dec 06
Daily Kos: All things being equal
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Though misguided in the economic quagmire of this country that disguises the realities of life, these are true urges of humanity - this is what we are: the creators of our own lives. That is what reason in its earliest formulation is: of that which is, that it is, humanity is the measure. This is science - the thought that by our own ingenuity in interpreting repetititve events, we can devine physical laws defining what we believe to be the world - and they can be [at least in part] universal - they can work. We can engineer things based on this knowledge. They may not be the ultimate truth, as even mathematically speaking, we have no way to capture truth, we only ever approximate it, but they can build the Verrazano Bridge, put humans in space, and destroy the planet.
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