February 2008 – Page 2 – The Austringer

Florida: Final Public Meeting Underway, Part 3

Objects to “rigid structure” of standards. Claims the standards are antithetical to their purpose. Gould and punctuated equilibria as “short

A speaker now is making a pitch that evolution degrades self-worth of children, therefore it shouldn’t be taught as given

First, the webcast is here. I’ve been trying to listen in as I’m taking care of Diane, who has something

M-Audio has updated its handheld Microtrack solid-state recorder to the Microtrack II. The specs are attractive. It records in stereo

The proposed science standards for Florida are different from the old standards. One way in which they differ is that

While all antievolution depends upon previous expositions for the concepts and arguments, most of the time each new generation of

It is a small news item, but astronomer and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez had an appeal before the

I have a FreeBSD-based box acting as a file server. One thing digital photography does is allow one to accumulate

I just got word that the Highlands County school board has declined to pass a resolution against the proposed science

I just did. A PETITION TO THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ADOPTION OF REVISED PUBLIC SCHOOL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS.

In general, debating antievolutionists is pretty pointless. But PZ Myers (blogger at Pharyngula) took on Geoffrey Simmons from the Discovery