Saturday, March 31, 2012

A New Species of Hominin Coeval With Lucy?

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Great Googlymoogly! A new discovery has been made in the Afar triangle that indicates that a similar species of Australopithecus that was ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

SB 893 Goes to the Governor

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The Knoxville News Sentinel has a story on the migration of the “monkey bill” from the floor of the senate to Bill Haslam's office for ...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Todd Wood Thinks SB893 is Superfluous

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Todd Wood has written to Governor Haslam, arguing that the passage of SB893 is pointless. The link to the letter appears to be broken on To...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Casey Luskin on “The Monkey Bill”

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Casey Luskin has written a piece addressing the Tennessee legislation 893, known colloquially and uncharitably as “The Monkey Bill.” He wr...
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HuffPo on The “Monkey Bill”

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Cara Santa Maria of the Huffington Post has a short video on the Tennessee anti-science bill 893. The ending interview with “a student” is d...

The Tennessean Weighs in on SB893

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The state newspaper, The Tennessean has written an editorial on the passage of SB893, the “Monkey Bill,” called “Our View.” They write: D...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Did Competition Put Us On Our Feet?

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Simply, yes. That is not earth-shattering. Cambridge News has a story on work done with chimpanzees that seems to confirm that behavioral ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Eugenie Scott on “Critical Thinking Bills”

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Robert Luhn at NCSE sent me a link for this lecture by Eugenie Scott at the University of South Florida, in February of 2012 on the “academi...
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Correction

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The Senate bill 893 passed 24 to 8. I read a partial vote earlier. Finally, some local coverage .
Monday, March 19, 2012

Ben Bova on Evolution and Global Warming

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Science fiction author Ben Bova, who will turn eighty this year, has written an editorial on the “marching morons” who refuse to accept evo...

Video on the Deliberation of SB893

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Here is the deliberation of the senate bill by Bo Watson, which passed 7 to 1, with one abstaining (click on SB0893). There was one amendme...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Tennessee “Academic Freedom” Bill Returns

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One of my favorite Murphyisms is “No one can kill a bad idea.” True to form, the NCSE reports on Tennessee Senate Bill 893, which is the co...
Friday, March 16, 2012

David Coppedge and David Klinghoffer

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The Pasadena Star-News is reporting that the trial of the JPL employee that worked on the Cassini spacecraft and was accused of pushing int...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

New Hominin Finds in China

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In somewhat hyperbolic terms, Discovery News reports on “ Mysterious Dark-Skinned Stone Age People Found .” Jennifer Viegas writes: A newly...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

ASA Debuts New Online Magazine

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The American Scientific Affiliation is now putting out the God and Nature Magazine which is: a literary resource for everyone who's eve...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Gorilla DNA Sequenced

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According to a story out of the LA Times, the gorilla genome has been completely sequenced. Eryn Brown writes: By comparing the new gorilla...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

Bill Filed to Repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act

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The American Humanist Association is shedding light on a bill filed by Karen Carter Peterson (D-New Orleans) to repeal the Louisiana Scien...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Freshwater Loses Appeal

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According to the Mansfield NewsJournal, John Freshwater, the Mount Vernon teacher fired for teaching creationism has lost his appeal. They ...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Neandertals Almost Extinct By the Time Modern Humans Got to Europe?

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That is the story that Science Daily is running with. They write: The results indicate that most Neanderthals in Europe died off as early a...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Neandertals were Seaworthy

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PhysOrg has a story that follows up on the evidence of Neandertal settlements on the Greek islands. It has now been suggested that the Ne...