If you haven’t heard it yet, Zack Kopplin tried and failed to get the “Louisiana Science Education Act” repealed. For those who are unaware, this was passed into being by fellow brown person and all round arsehole Bobby Jindal. And it’s a piece of legislation that allows for the teaching of anything from literal creationism …
Tag Archive: Science
May 05 2013
SSA Blogathon – Marvelous Medicine
There are often some rather impressive things in medicine. For too long medicine has stagnated in achievement mainly because the new stuff that medicine needs to achieve is “hard”. Hannah Warren is a Korean toddler. She was born with tracheal agenesis which is a rare and normally fatal birth defect. For 2½ years she lived …
May 04 2013
Piano Black – Women in Science
It’s a subject that I feel is not talked about enough. As time goes on, women are becoming a force to reckon with in the science world. But where did it all start? And with who? Sadly, I cannot name the great number of women who contributed to science and give the individual homage they …
Apr 25 2013
TrueU – Because Education challenges Superstition
Focus on the Family’s got a new plan. Basically? University and College is pretty poor for “faith” in dogmatic religions. There is little to no onus to keep going to a church and you are suddenly thrown into a mixing bowl of people who are nothing like the small groups you are used to and …
Apr 23 2013
Deepak Chopra, TED and Game of Thrones
Am I the only one who wishes the SI unit for “bullshitting about science” to be measured in Deepak Chopras? Here is the thing. Simply being liberal doesn’t mean you should move away from what people consider as “big pharmacy”. Pharmacy is entrenched in “Big Business” which is benefitted by the low taxes and reduced …
Apr 12 2013
Beware the Scientists
Christian Post is onto the latest and greatest threat to face down our society (or at least American Society). That’s right! It’s Science! Or indeed the Christian Notion Of Scientism.
Apr 01 2013
Piano Black – Radioactive Space Rock
I decided to write about about three very nice people who came into my life, fortunately enough they are here to stay. As a teenager who is trying to figure out who I am and what I am doing on this planet. The people I chose whose life story really jumped out to me was …
Mar 15 2013
Piano Black – The Art of Science
Science is everything, art can help us understand that. Avicenna mentioned to me the other week about finding ways to teach science through art, and I thought it was a great idea. Because it caters to a wider number of people, particularly kids. Kids are important because they are our future; our engineers, teachers, musicians, …
Mar 04 2013
Piano Black – Science and Other Oddities
Science – what does it mean? Everyone talks about it, but have you noticed that no one really says a word about it? So, what is science?
Feb 21 2013
Mums and Dads
Language is a weapon. It is as deadly a weapon in the game of survival as a spear or an arrow. Language helps preserve knowledge and helps communicate. It turns relatively squishy apes (compared to say… a Bear or a Mammoth) into a team. It’s one of the most important parts of human development.
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