There’s a certain logic to it, after all: if America is going to treat the Bible as a science book, with astronomy and biology and history starting at “Genesis,” then we should be consistent and end those studies with “Revelation.” You know, “teach the controversy”: either the death of the sun or the Second Coming, [...]

This “Critical Thinking” video is worth a watch. Now: What follow-up questions for discussion or writing will get the most bang for the buck if used in the classroom? (h/t One Good Move)

Holidays are happy now, vacation having begun. I’ve wanted to share this one for the past few weeks. It concerns a wonderful teach-in by an evangelical Christian professor of biology to a group of what I gather to be creationists, possibly from his church. A bit of historical background makes it all the more interesting. [...]

Oh, the French wit. Just the right sauce for my Freedom Fries: Asked to sum up Bush’s record on the [climate change] issue, France’s climate ambassador Brice Lalonde chose instead to pass on a story he had heard. A man comes to the White House asking to see Bush. “He doesn’t live here anymore,” he [...]

Picture this: enterprising students in cities in Texas, particularly, and other cities nationwide – along with counterparts in Romania, which just mandated a Creationism-only science curriculum (I kid you not), and maybe Turkey, for good measure – organize Smart Mobs to strike, peacefully and simultaneously, out of the blue to demand only 21st century science [...]

From the “We Don’t Need Four Ten More Years” Department: This is serious, and an opportunity for some net-roots experimentation that could be fun. So let’s talk the problem first, then possible solutions: 1. Creationists at it again The Houston Chronicle reports that a majority in the Texas Board of Education is likely to vote [...]

From the “Telling My Students What I Wish My High School Teachers had Told Me” Department: Science is downright sexy. It struck me last week as I watched the following video on CNN about scientist Carl Hodges, of the Seawater Foundation, which I promptly found online, bookmarked on Diigo, and noted: Use rising oceans from [...]

8 a.m. Sunday morning in Onyang, where Chosun era kings bathed in the local hot springs to cure themselves of all sorts of maladies, and I hope in a few minutes to do the same. (It ain’t all that great a place now, by the way, with its ugly commercial strips and other modern blights.) [...]

Bill Farren of Education for Well-Being, one of my favorite sites, writes about the fatal assumption of economic theory, and some new economics textbooks that may mark a paradigm-shift by questioning those assumptions from a green economics standpoint. Well worth a read, for both economics and environmental science teachers. And Dr. Jim Horn, who writes [...]

Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves. In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years. Eight years and two [...]