Jan 29 2013
You Twin Cities folk will have to drive like maniacs to get here in time, but you can do it: I hear the roads are slick as glass so you can just slide all the way here. At 6pm we’re doing another science for the community event, this time with Michael Ceballos talking about biology …
Nov 26 2012
We’re bringing it back! If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by tomorrow night to learn some cool student-centered physics research. Summary: Students from the Experimental Physics class will present “Results from Experimental Physics” on Tuesday, November 27, at 6 p.m. at the Common Cup Coffeehouse. This is the first Café Scientifique of the academic year. …
Nov 07 2012
Suspend your ebullience over Obama’s election last night, and consider instead the more depressing summary of the Minnesota state election results. It’s not all bad; we have a little bit of good news. Our Democratic-Farmer-Labor party senator, Amy Klobuchar, won re-election handily. The DFL retook the state house. The DFL retook the state senate. We …
Oct 01 2012
Here’s what we Minnesotans get to look forward to on our TV screens for the next month, an ad against gay marriage. So their only argument is this “But they’re redefining marriage!” nonsense? Why should we care? If the law specified a thousand more special cases, it wouldn’t affect my relationship with my wife in …
Sep 28 2012
Riley Balling, patent attorney, is certain that gay marriage will affect his marriage. Why? Well, he splutters on in a long op-ed in the Star Tribune, but all he manages to say is the children, because…the children, that’s why. For many of us who favor traditional marriage, marriage is about raising children in a healthy …
Sep 17 2012
Free movies on the UMM campus, open to all! Watch out for the woo, but you’ve got to appreciate the fact that oppressed peoples are expressing themselves in their own words about their lives and the destruction that has been wreaked on them. Mazinaatesijigan Gekinoo’amaadiwin Film Series (Films with Knowledge) For much of the 20th …
Sep 13 2012
Come to a book reading! the Minnesota Atheists are sponsoring a reading at the Southdale Libary at 2pm from our anthology, Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories. I’ll be reading from my chapter, and a heap o’ other people will read their godless stories, and then afterwards we’re heading over to Q …
Aug 21 2012
Oh, look. Guess who just moved in to the north of me, in Fargo? Anil Potti. He is the cancer ‘researcher’ who is known to have fabricated data in 18 papers, made up credentials on his CV, and most entertainingly, hired an online reputation manager to bury his sordid record in a barrage of online …
Aug 14 2012
I know, it’s weird, it’s mid-August — but we’re having a primary right now. It’s been buried in the news and won’t get much attention because there aren’t any presidential candidates on the ballot, but it’s still important to turn out and do your civic duty. Stephanie has some recommendations for who good smart sensible …
Jul 11 2012
Check it out on 6 August: it looks like she’ll be talking about NCSE’s new initiative to combat climate change denialism.
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