Oct 31 2005
This is the “last week of the Dover trial”:http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-31/113074333546830.xml&storylist=penn, brought by parents in the school district against the administrators who forced non-science to be injected into the science classroom. The final witnesses are current and former school board members. The central question – whether the required language, which makes the misleading statement that evolution is [...]
Oct 31 2005
OK, here I totally cross-over into politics. In part, what I’m about to say is based on my deep devotion to data and evidence, and its interpetation based on a rational framework. The rest, however, is just plain human frustration.
As you’re well aware, today the President tried to distract the press corps from his administration’s [...]
Oct 30 2005
In California, this is the week before the November special election to vote on seven ballot measures, several of which modify the state constitution. Trying to revisit my performance from last November as a “good citizen”, I am reviewing the actual text (I hate TV ads and I hate nearly as much those silly text [...]
Oct 29 2005
I’m having one of those moments of extreme clarity. Ever have those? I can’t say what sparked it. Perhaps it was a wonderful Braidwood collaboration meeting. Perhaps it was my excellent conversation with my colleague and, perhaps even friend by now, Dr. Herman White. Perhaps it was the wine, dinner, and conversation with two good [...]
Oct 27 2005
Nice “article in Slate, comparing Michael Behe’s ID testimony to a famous Monty Python sketch”:http://www.slate.com/id/2128755/. Right on target, I’d say…
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Oct 27 2005
Yawn. I am BEAT. After my bout of insomnia the other night, I had a miserable day and then had to take a nightflight to Chicago for my Braidwood collaboration meeting. With only 3.5 hours to sleep on the red eye flight, I caught two more short hours after arriving at Fermilab. After that, I [...]
Oct 25 2005
I can’t sleep. This happens a few times a week. I go to bed tired and early, with the best of intentions. Two hours later my wife is sound asleep (she’s sound asleep 7 minutes after lights-out) and I’m staring at the infinite void of the ceiling. Every part of my face feels bloodshot. But [...]
Oct 25 2005
It’s been a while since I last put pen to paper and placed some thoughts in this blog. As is typical with most things at the bottom of the list, this gets shelved when I have more important things to do. These past few weeks have been full of such things, among them a new [...]
Oct 17 2005
The National Center for Science Education (“www.ncseweb.org”:http://www.ncseweb.org) is doing a nice job of tracking the case in Dover, PA, brought by parents against a schoolboard hell-bent on watering down the science curriculum. This week, the defense presents its case. Here, the defense is the school board, which tried to inject into the public education system [...]
Oct 16 2005
Mmmm. Gigabit ethernet. GURGUGURGLE.
I’m bored. With Jodi out of town and being throughly mentally lashed form this past week at SLAC, I needed a project to take my mind off spin and quarks and 38 decay modes of the B meson. I needed gigabit ethernet.
With a lecture on how we define ourselves with material objects [...]
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