Friday, August 30, 2013

And I Thought Don Prothero's Review of Darwin's Doubt Was Withering...

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Nick Matzke has also written a review of Darwin's Doubt that has been posted on Panda's Thumb.  This is the nicest thing he has to...
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Off-Topic (Sort of) But Way Cool

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Scientific American has an infographic that is really neat.  It is 150 million years of fish evolution put in a phylogenetic tree structure...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Washington Times Weighs In on Ball State

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Getting in a little bit late in the game, The Washington Times waxes on the trials of Eric Hedin and Ball State University and, by and larg...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Donald Prothero Writes A Withering Review of Darwin's Doubt

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On the Amazon page for the new Stephen Meyer book Darwin's Doubt , there is a review of the book by Donald Prothero, who is responsible...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

HuffPo: Creationist Darek Isaacs Calls Dragons Real, Says They Lived In Biblical Times

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Sometimes I just want to crawl under the desk and hide.  Welcome to the public face of Christianity: the young earth creationists.  HuffPo ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Good News In Texas

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Apparently, the new textbooks in Texas are getting a good review by a group of Ph.D. candidates who have evaluated them.  The Texas Freedom ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Study: Neandertals Made Bone Points

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Nature has a story detailing research indicating the use of bone tools by Neandertals. Ewen Callaway writes: Excavations of Neanderthal s...
Friday, August 09, 2013

The Carlisle Sentinel Responds to Stephen Bloom

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The Carlisle Sentinel has devoted an editorial to the Stephen Bloom push to have a bill passed allowing "academic freedom" for deb...

Representative Bloom Pushes Forward

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Two days ago, I posted a story on Pennsylvania state senator Stephen Bloom's ill-advised to push a bill that would "...allow studen...

Popular Science: What Pangaea Would Look Like With Today's Political Boundaries [Infographic]

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Popular Science has a peculiar graphic up that imagines what the world would like geopolitically if the continents were still arranged in t...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Just When You Thought The Ball State News Would Die Down...

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While the ties to Ball State University are, admittedly, somewhat stretched, the media is playing this one up for all it is worth.  Seth Sla...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To Pennsylvania

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Philly.com is reporting that a Republican (natch) state representative is promoting an "academic freedom" bill.  Angela Couloumbis...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Louisiana Still Trying To Get LSEA Repealed

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The Times-Picayune of New Orleans is carrying a story about the latest attacks on the Louisiana Science Education Act.  Danielle Dreilinger...
Monday, July 29, 2013

New Poll Results on The Huffington Post

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HuffPo has an odd post on a new survey that tracks the belief in evolution and how it has changed since the last such poll.  Yasmine Hafiz ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Ball State Closes Review Report

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Ball State University has decided not to make public the report concerning Eric Hedin.  The Muncie Star Press reports : Provost Terry King...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Homo floresiensis Gains Legitimacy

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Science Daily has posted a story detailing new examination of the Liang Bua crania by researchers at SUNY Stonybrook, The University of Tubi...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Gonzalez Won't Teach ID

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Guillermo Gonzalez has made a public attestation that he will not teach intelligent design at Ball State University.  As the Muncie Star Pre...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Science Magazine: Turkish Scientists See Growing Antievolution Bias in Government

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In an alarming and growing trend in Turkey, the main Turkish granting agency, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey ha...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Inside Higher Ed on Guillermo Gonzalez

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Inside Higher Ed has a short blurb on the hiring of Guillermo Gonzalez at Ball State University.  It reads in part: Gonzalez was denied ...

Study: Neandertal Speech and Language Abilities Like Modern Humans

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Science Daily has a story on Neandertal speech.  Work by Dan Didiu and Stephen Levinson suggests that Neandertals and modern humans share a...