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...kids and a chuck wagon. The scaled-down prototype flew up 285 ft.--and 30 sec. later landed successfully. "My only job at the launch was to open the champagne, and I broke the cork off in the bottle," he blogged later. (You can almost hear that mad-scientist laugh of his.) "Fortunately, our other valve operations went more smoothly...
...documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson’s documentary is a hybrid of these two ways of life: armed with the science of evolution, he has created “Flock of Dodos” with a good-natured sense of absurdity that makes sure that the scientists get mocked just as much as the intelligent designers.Olson described his challenge as finding “a charismatic voice for the world of science.” His film casts the conflict between evolution and intelligent design as one of politics rather than science, in which the key weapon...
Perhaps the most uncomfortable moment in the book is Perret’s passage later on describing a debate between McGeorge Bundy—an aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson—and political scientist Hans Morgenthau—a Jew who fled Germany after Hitler came to power...
While no one can ever really know the true motives of the evildoers who continue to deny Sherley tenure, we can speculate on the reasons. Perhaps, for example, it was because he refuses to join in “mainstream” research. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, will not work with anything but adult stem cells while most of his colleagues in the field believe the focus should be on fetal stem cells. Could this have been an issue? Of course not, it was probably all because Sherley is black. (Never mind the fact that Phillip L. Clay, MIT?...
...history would show that the last time Harvard decided to reconsider its notion of a liberal arts education, it settled on the novel idea that liberal arts should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order and happiness grew in the area as the oil flowed to the west...