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Nov. 30th, 2008 @ 07:56 pm
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Whoo hoo!
*falls down*
Really, though, writing eight thousand words today wasn't the most pleasant thing ever.
I love charts. Look at this one:
Notes for next year:
1) Don't wait until day six to decide to actually participate. Start on day one.
2) Maybe don't go on a five day vacation at your grandparents' house (who don't have internet) for five days right at the end of the month.
3) Getting so sick you can't focus is also bad for production. Avoid this in the future.
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Sep. 25th, 2007 @ 08:35 am
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"Science works ... because it compels smart people to incessantly try to disprove the ideas generated by other smart people."
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/09/scientific_literacy_and_the_ha.php
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/09/camelot_is_only_a_model_scient.php
I really enjoyed these two essays about science literacy in the 21st century. It's something I'm really interested in, and their words hit that sweet spot in my brain that make me nod a lot and go, "right on, man. THAT's what I'm talkin' about."
I especially like Steven Saus' suggestion that schools (I assume he means below the college level) have classes in critical thinking.
How great would that be? An actual, applicable, critical thinking class in public high school. I remembering having a social studies class that used the phrase from time to time, but I definitely didn't "get" it until well into my second year of college. Oh, so it's not good to blindly believe everything you hear? Even from authority figures? Huh.
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DDT debate halts Rachel Carson honor
The Associated Press
Sen. Benjamin Cardin's resolution had intended to honor Carson for her "legacy of scientific rigor coupled with poetic sensibility." But Susan Sullam, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Democrat, said he delayed the bill because Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., signaled he would use Senate rules to halt it.
In a statement on his Web site Tuesday, Coburn confirmed that he is holding up the bill. He blamed Carson for using "junk science" to turn the public against chemicals such as DDT that could prevent the spread of insect-borne diseases such as malaria.
DDT has had a sort of resurgence in the public mind ever since last year when the World Health Organization WHO stated they would actively support using DDT as part of their malaria eradication program. Suddenly, it's in vogue for conservatives to wax poetical about the good ol' days before DDT was banned and nary a mosquito or crop pest was to be seen, or so they want to believe. This Coburn fellow is a shining example. Despite being a doctor, he doesn't seem to have a clue about either Rachel Carson or DDT.
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My friend (who is getting a Masters in library science, I would like to point out) had an interesting rant on his blog about, among other things, English majors and genre fiction versus “lit fic”, from which I quote most gleefully:
“Contrast people having weighty moral issues and physical travails while fishing with people having weighty moral issues and physical travails on spaceships. You should be keeping a simple fact in mind here, which is that fishing, to be perfectly honest, is REALLY FUCKING BORING, and that flying around in spaceships fighting aliens is REALLY COOL.”
It is funny and it reminded me that I myself have not ranted about this subject (in writing, anyway).
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