Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment: “Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to see others [...]
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Firstly, I’d like to confess to blatantly taking a question off a Facebook page that was not meant for me – as you can tell by the picture! While I’ve written to the person, and thankfully they were open to hearing my views, it just so happens to be the kind of issue that I’ve [...]
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This one is for Barbara! From The Spoof.com: Published quickly on the heels of their book on public scientific literacy, Unscientific America, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum have released their newest book Unartistic America, which tackles the low art literacy in America, its consequences, and what should be done to change the situation. In a [...]
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From Slashdot – The Texas Board of Education — as discussed here last week — has voted on the guidelines for textbooks in that state, which represents a large enough market to have influence nationwide. The good news is that the board dropped a 20-year-old requirement that both “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories [...]
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LOC – stands for ‘low on content’. I used to use that as one of my short-hand phrases on student work when grading. Often used along with phrases like ‘Ref?’ (reference please?), ‘NP‘ (new paragraph) and ‘rephr‘ (rephrase). Once, and I assure you, quite, quite justified, I ended up writing a ‘WTF??‘ A student started [...]
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First – if you’re keen on blog carnivals and writing about academia – get your entries into Praxis Carnival, out on the 15th January here at Podblack.com – details as follow: The carnival is intended to cover all aspects of life as an academic, whether it’s the lifestyle, career progress, doing a Ph.D., getting funding, [...]
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Seriously, I cried. I’m now waiting on the poem and cartoon as well, because this looks like such a great line-up of writers. I am so honored – Podblack Blog is in the Open Laboratory Science Blogging anthology for 2008!! I know many of you are trembling in anticipation: “Did I make it this year?”. [...]
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