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This week the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would have allowed researchers to do continued stem cell research. As promised, President Bush vetoed the bill a day after it passed in the senate.
NPR provided a detailed time-line of the Stem-Cell Debate, noting that in 1981 stem cells were first isolated by researchers Gail Martin at the University of California, San Francisco, and Martin Evans, then with the University of Cambridge (he’s now at the University of Cardiff).… Read more
There is a high school in a Georgia County (in the Metro-Atlanta area) that will remain nameless. I know about the school because I lived within two miles of it. I could be writing about any school in the State or the nation for that matter. Anyway, the school is considered one of the top academic schools in the State. It received an award from the state for having the highest percentage of students meeting and exceeding state standards.… Read more
Space Shuttle Discovery returned safely to Florida after a really important mission for NASA’s astronaut corp, and the Space Station.
After three space walks, transferring thousands of pounds of supplies, and removing trash, the astronauts “installed new equipment outside of the station, tested technologies and techniques for repairing small areas of damage to the shuttle’s thermal protection system in orbit, and performed an experiment to see if an extension of the shuttle’s robot arm can be used as a work platform without too much sway or wobble.”
NASA will be busy over the next few years as it plans to make at least 16 flights of the shuttle to the Space Station.… Read more
Into today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, the article “Long road to school sanctions” underscored the dilemma that this country is in with regard to the education of youth. Instead of educating youth, enormous resources have been and continue being spent of mandated testing, and then the holding of schools and districts hostage—before and after the results are reported. For example in the Atlanta area, where there are about 4 million+ citizens, 7 of the metro-Atlanta school districts were told “Yawl need improvement!” The list included Atlanta, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Hall, Marietta City, & Rockdale.… Read more
Francis Collins, Director of National Human Genome Research Institute has just published a new book entitled The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
The book was featured in an article in this week’s issue of Time Magazine entitled Reconciling God and Science. Collins, not only is a scientist but is a Christian who takes aim in his book at not only the atheist scientists but the creationists and intelligent designers.… Read more
Have you ever given serious thought to the obsession this country has for state-wide and national testing. In previous posts I’ve discussed the dilemma that state departments of education have created in their outright commitment to testing the brains out of students grades 1 through 12. I recall a good friend of mine telling me that all of this testing of kids is akin to the idea that weighing cattle makes them fatter.… Read more
It wasn’t the shot heard ’round the world, but for NASA it was an important success in its plan to help finish the contruction of the Space Station. It will take about 15 flights of the Space Shuttle from now until 2010, so today’s flight was important in reaching that goal.
The astronauts looked ready for the historic flight (first on July 4th) as they headed to the Shuttle elevator to be strapped and ready for count-down.… Read more
It looks like NASA will be proceed with the launch on July 4 of the Space Shuttle Discovery. It will be the first time that a launch of astronauts has taken place on Independence Day. Let’s hope that it proceeds as the astronauts hope. Imagine getting on that giant rocket twice and have it called off.
I had a very good friend who was very involved in Space Science Education, and he invited me to a launch of the Space Shuttle in 1981.… Read more
In several of the past few posts, I’ve written about global warming by calling attention to recent publications by Elizabeth Kolbert and Al Gore. In there view, the evidence is all around us and we need to take notice of its effects: increased rainfall in some areas (the North Eastern part of the U.S.), widening ranges of butterflies, increased melting of glaciers, surges in intense hurricanes.… Read more
In several of the past few posts, I’ve written about global warming by calling attention to recent publications by Elizabeth Kolbert and Al Gore. In there view, the evidence is all around us and we need to take notice of its effects: increased rainfall in some areas (the North Eastern part of the U.S.), widening ranges of butterflies, increased melting of glaciers, surges in intense hurricanes.… Read more
There was an article (Evolution’s Lonely Battle in a Georgia Classroom) in the New York Times online edition on June 29 about a middle school teacher by the name of Pat New. She stood alone in her small north Georgia school district of Lumpkin County, which is located in the mountains, and decided not to give into parental and administrative pressures questioning why she was teaching evolution in her 7th grade life science class.… Read more
All around Washington, D.C. a deluge of evidence runs through the streets and buildings, and you would think that the U.S. Senate’s Committee Environment and Public Works would stop denying the scientific evidence of global warming. Yes, there is debate within the scientific community regarding global warming. But instead of engaging the scientific evidence, the Senate continues to put down any research that indicates that carbon dioxide emissions by humans might have contributed to global warming.… Read more
