Apr 12 2012
Just a quick reminder post, for us locals, about Sean Faircloth’s 7 PM talk tonight at UT relating to his activism and his new book Attack of the Theocrats. Info here. If you can’t make it, but want throw the SSA-UTA kids a buck or two to help them out with this or future events, …
Mar 08 2012
Moment of silence, please. Leslie Cochran died today at the age of 60. Austin is, sadly, less weird without him. (Note: The original images from this post have been removed due to copyright concerns from the Austin American Statesman. Please visit their excellent photo gallery at http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/leslie-cochran/. The new image is from Creative Commons.)
Jun 28 2010
Monday afternoon, I was, with very little warning and only about an hour to do frantic house-cleaning in preparation, interviewed by local TV news channel KEYE 42. The story was about a new Coalition of Reason billboard that’s gone up on the north side of town (I haven’t actually driven past it yet). And I …
Jun 28 2010
This is what potentially millions of people will see over the next month as they travel south on I-35. The Austin Coalition of Reason, of which ACA is a member, officially kicked off its billboard campaign this morning. The billboard is located on I-35 north of Grand Avenue Parkway facing north. It’s a message of …
Feb 19 2010
In an earlier post, I drew attention to the anti-vax hero Andrew Wakefield. Today’s Austin American Statesman reported that Wakefield has left his executive director position at the Austin-based Thoughtful House Center for Children that he helped found. It’s possible that they can rehabilitate their reputation without him. Late last month, Wakefield was found “irresponsible” …
Feb 18 2010
Today, a man flew a small plane into a building in Austin. It’s captured our attention for most of the day. It turns out that the pilot was very frustrated and did what is effectively a suicide attack on an IRS office. He also torched his own house with his wife and child in it. …
Nov 18 2009
Okay, so I read on Pharyngula this morning that Ray Comfort, the World’s Stupidest Christian™, rescheduled his giveaway of his bowdlerized Origin of Species on university campuses for today instead of tomorrow, evidently because he heard that people were preparing to counter it by printing up information from the NCSE’s enjoyable Don’t Diss Darwin site. …
Sep 10 2009
I’m planning to attend this event hosted by the Texas Freedom Network. From my inbox: Could the religious right really be on the decline in America? Come hear E.J. Dionne, the award-winning columnist for The Washington Post and author of the best-selling book Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right, at a …
Nov 19 2008
I’ve just returned from the Texas SBOE hearings on Science TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) standards, and I’m so full of disgust and dismay that I’m at a loss for words to express it with enough rancor. You can, however, expect me to go on at length anyway. The whole thing was such a …
Jul 16 2008
CFI-Austin, along with Texas Citizens for Science and the UT Section of Integrative Biology, is sponsoring a trio of talks this evening to be held at UT’s Burdine Hall, room 108. I think I had some classes there back in the day. The general theme is “Science Education in Texas,” which, as you may well …
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