Mano Singham

Author's details

Name: Mano Singham
Date registered: January 9, 2012

Biography

I am a theoretical physicist and currently Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. I am the author of three books: God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009), The Achievement Gap in US Education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000). You can email me at mano.singham"'at"'case.edu.

Latest posts

  1. Film review: War on Whistleblowers — May 19, 2013
  2. The Washington scandal machine — May 19, 2013
  3. The government’s role in a child’s education — May 19, 2013
  4. Thinking about heaven, hell, purgatory, and other ways to waste your time — May 18, 2013
  5. France legalizes same-sex marriage — May 18, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. The religious problem for the GOP — 102 comments
  2. The Chick-fil-A controversy — 97 comments
  3. The New York subway ‘jihad poster’ fracas — 94 comments
  4. Reasonable gun rights and the constitution — 82 comments

Author's posts listings

May 14 2013

Pressure cookers in the news

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Following Boston, pressure cookers have now become suspicious objects. We have news reports of a student from Saudi Arabia being questioned by the FBI after neighbors reported seeing him carrying one. It turns out that he had cooked some food in it and was taking it to a friend’s house.

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18 comments

May 14 2013

The bill of rights applies to US citizens abroad

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Politics

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There is this curious belief by people who want to defend president Obama’s right to kill even US citizens abroad that US citizens no longer have the same rights under the US constitution once they leave the country. Charles Krauthammer is the latest person to make this claim, saying in a recent column that “Outside …

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May 13 2013

“And into the hole he goes”

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Humor, Religion

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The late Irish comedian Dave Allen often had a very funny take on religion, delivered with nice timing and facial expressions. I posted this clip a long time ago but came across it again and enjoyed it so much that I decided to repost it for the benefit of those who have not seen it …

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8 comments

May 13 2013

Saudi Arabia destroying ancient shrines

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Religion

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Islam, like all religions, is full of contradictions. For example, some of its adherents are very sensitive to slights and in those countries like Myanmar and Sri Lanka, there have been clashes between the majority Buddhists and minority Muslims sometimes resulting in mosques being damaged or destroyed, provoking great anger. But then we find that …

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May 13 2013

Those wimpy Chinese

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Politics

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Naw Kham is the leader of a drug trafficking group suspected of a massacre of Chinese citizens who had been eluding Chinese authorities for a long time. Working with Laotian authorities, the Chinese authorities captured him when he went to that country, took him back to China, and he is now standing trial. What is …

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5 comments

May 13 2013

Harvard takes a beating

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Politics

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The reputation of Harvard University, especially the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy, has been getting a severe hammering in the last month. We first had the Reinhart-Rogoff affair (see here and here) and now we have the Heritage-Richwine affair.

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18 comments

May 12 2013

The Great Gatsby and me

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Books

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As an immigrant, I figured that probably a good way to understand to nature of my adopted country was to familiarize myself with its literature, especially the ones that are asserted to be classics, since the books that a society values are the ones that reveal its sense of identity. So naturally as part of …

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May 12 2013

Coda to the burial controversy

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Politics, Religion

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So Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body has been finally buried in a small private cemetery in Virginia, which I hope brings to an end a ridiculous chapter in the Boston bombing tragedy. Martha Mullen, a woman in Virginia, hearing about the difficulty the family and funeral director were having in finding a cemetery willing to accept it, …

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15 comments

May 11 2013

Nancy Ghoul

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Humor, Media

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My knowledge of TV talking heads is somewhat scattershot, largely dependent on the video clips that come my way when I am surfing the web, usually in relation to news stories. I was vaguely familiar with the name Nancy Grace as a former lawyer as a legal analyst on cable news, but that was about …

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7 comments

May 11 2013

Internet addiction

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Science

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Two years ago, I wrote about research that found that those people who tried to multitask (i.e., switch rapidly between different cognitive tasks) were highly inefficient in procession information when compared to those who did the same work sequentially. They suffered in all three major areas that would be necessary to multitask: the ability to …

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