About a week ago, I wrote a post entitled Volcano in Your Backyard, which was initiated by the Governor of Louisiana's comment that spending money on volcano monitoring was an other example of wasteful spending by the government. February 8, 1984, I was on board a...
Legislators in several states believe that laws need to be passed to ensure that students are engaged in critical thinking activities. However, the legislators have limited their own thinking, and have selected specific scientific theories that should be examined...
Volcanoes have received a bad rap recently, especially if the US Geological Survey is to receive "stimulus" funding to monitor and investigate volcanoes. According to the Governor of Louisiana funding "something called 'volcano monitoring' is an example of...
The nation is about to embark on a path toward economic recovery and reinvestment in the future. I am confidant that we can do this. But to listen to some of the Governor's these days, you would wonder what they are thinking, and why they are letting the citizens of...
The nation is about to embark on a path toward economic recovery and reinvestment in the future. I am confidant that we can do this. But to listen to some of the Governor's these days, you would wonder what they are thinking, and why they are letting the citizens of...
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, these two important people were born on the same day in the same year, February 12, 1809. One would go on to explain how humans evolved as part of nature, and the other would go...