Here’s an interesting piece from NPR on how the political ‘debates’ are really run. (Link from photomatt.)
Excerpt:
After weeks of political wrangling, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush will square off for the first of three key presidential debates. Both camps have agreed to an elaborate, 32-page contract that spells out everything from the size of the dressing rooms to permitted camera angles.
Wired has a very good article entitled “The Crusade Against Evolution”. It’s a very good read about the current battle against the theory of Evolution.
Personally this bugs me. If you want to teach creationism (or ‘Intelligent Design’ or whatever you want to call it this week), don’t teach it in a science classroom. Teach it in a class on religion or something else. Science belongs in the science classroom, not non-scientific conjecture that has no scientific basis or value.
Excerpt:
…140 years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, 75 years after John Scopes taught natural selection to a biology class in Tennessee, and 15 years after the US Supreme Court ruled against a Louisiana law mandating equal time for creationism, the question of how to teach the theory of evolution was being reopened here in Ohio.
A scientist has come up with some very cool models of M.C. Escher’s paintings. It would be very interesting to see these in person but the images are pretty amazing themselves. (Link from fark)
Fun flash-based Fridge Poetry! (Found at del.icio.us)
Slashdot has a review of an interesting book entitled ‘The Underground History of American Education’ by John Taylor Gatto. The basis of the book is that the American education system is setup not to educate people, but to produce an easily manageable workforce to serve employers in a mass-production economy. I had heard about this before but this is the first I have heard of this source.