Ninety years after the Scopes trial, the governor of Tennessee is about to sign a law that attacks such dubious theories as genetics, evolution, global warming, and Obama’s birth in Kenya. So far, Newton’s laws are considered to be safe.[...]
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April 8th, 2012 - 10:37 am § in America
Mike Wallace Passes at 93
From the Associated Press obituary: Mike Wallace didn’t interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them.His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were “Mike Wallace is here to see yo[...]
NIH Budget Crunch
There is a petition to the White House to increase the NIH budget for FY 2013. This petition was started by Steve Metzler at Johns Hopkins. The current White House proposal calls for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research is already [...]
March 12th, 2012 - 10:44 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Times Turns Doonesbury to Editorial Page
The Seattle Times will run the strip in the national news section, rather than with other comics, said Executive Editor David Boardman. Boardman said the decision required much discussion, as well as research to verify that cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s take on the Texas law was essentially accur[...]
Goldy Disses UW President For Not Supporting Tax Reform, Republican Pushes FOR Tax reform,
While over at the SLOG, David Goldstein criticizes UW President Young for not arguing for tax reform at the TownHall Forum. how many liberals are aware that a Republican, WA Senator Michael Baumgartner, has proposed a constitutional amendment to force the State to support higher ed? For what it is w[...]
December 22nd, 2011 - 6:41 am § in Misc.
What I want for Christmas.
Well, we Jews do not actually celebrate Christmas. Jesus is not reeally our thing. As it happens though I do have a birthday coming, Jan 1st! All my life, well since college, I wanted a better camera then I could afford. Usually this want meant a Hasselblad. For those who do not know, in the[...]
December 11th, 2011 - 12:18 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Politics, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene, UW
Where Were the UW Faculty?????
Friday night I went with about 1000 friends to hear speeches on our economy. The speakers were Maria Cantwell and Elizabeth Warren, probably the most outspoken leaders for reform of our management class excesses. Professor Warren was spectacular. For the first time I heard a major speaker suppor[...]
Why is a degree less valuable in Seattle then in Boston?
There is something wrong here. Seattle is #2 in terms of unemployment but #7 in terms of education ? Readmore at WSJ. [...]
December 2nd, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Hypocrisy
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]
Tea party a la France
Far right hits historic heights Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round? By Sarah LEDUC (from France 24) Having secured nearly one in[...]