Mar
28
Texas science battle fought to a draw
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Well, it’s over. I managed to listen to yesterday’s entire meeting of the Texas State Board of Education without throwing anything at my computer, which was definitely a personal victory. I commented over on the TFN blog that there is no way I would have been able to keep quiet if I had gone down [...]
Mar
22
Rare Earth?
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In a happy synchronicity, the same week that I attended a lecture by Rare Earth co-author Don Brownlee, two posts on the same topic showed up on a couple of blogs I read. First was Kepler and the Rare Earth hypothesis from Chris Rowan’s Highly Allochthonous, followed by A Habitable Zone by any other name… [...]
Mar
21
My state is driving me crazy
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I love being from Texas (I was even born on Texas Independence Day). But there are some things that just leave me shaking my head. And unfortunately I’ve been shaking my head a lot lately…
I was going to write up my own summary of all that has been going on, but this post at the [...]
Jul
18
Science education in Texas and hearing bloggers speak on creationism
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I think “the good, the bad and the ugly” would also sum up the evening. The “good” was the round of applause for Chris Comer and her upcoming lawsuit and hearing some ScienceBloggers speak, “the bad” was hearing more about the big fight that will be coming over the revision of the science standards here [...]
Mar
15
Archive Post: Lucy!
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No, not that Lucy… THIS Lucy! The date of March 11 has become a “seeing things with my own eyes that I never thought I would see with my own eyes” day. Six years ago on March 11, I was standing in Pompeii. This year, I saw Lucy.
Yes, we finally did our road trip to [...]