You can find the answers to 14 science questions that were submitted to Barack Obama and John McCain at the Science Debate website. Starting in 2007, a small group of individuals began working on the possibility of having a debate between the two candidates focusing...
I received an email from Nate Carnes, President of the Southeast Association for Science Teacher Education (SASTE) announcing the SASTE's annual conference entitled: Social Justice and High Quality Science Education for All which will take place at the University of...
This week and next, the two major political parties are meeting in Denver and Minneapolis, respectively, to not only nominate their Presidental and VP candidate, but to agree upon a political platform outlining beliefs and actions they will take during the next...
I've written several posts over the past several years about the teaching of and opposition to teaching evolution. Right now, there is evidence that the resistance to teach evolution is fading, although, if history is helpful, this lack of resistance will not last...
First, let me say that the Georgia I am referring to in the title is not the state of Georgia, in the USA, but the Republic of Georgia. The conflict that is ongoing between Russia and Georgia is not only frustrating, but filled with sadness for myself, and many of my...
In his new book Only a Theory, Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University, and author of a number of books, including one on high school biology, explores the issues surrounding the teaching of evolution in American schools. He begins his book in the...