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clock | January 16, 2007 *N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
/Downtown Raleigh/
**Thursday, January 18
"Flock of Dodos" screening with filmmaker, Randy Olson
7:00 p.m. Museum Auditorium
Free
*Filmmaker and Evolutionary Ecologist , Dr. Randy Olson, presents his
new film */Flock of Dodos/*: /*The Evolution / Intelligent Design Circus.*/
"Flock of Dodos" is the first feature-length documentary to present both
sides of the Intelligent Design / Evolution clash and tries to make
sense of the issue by visiting Olson's home state of Kansas. The film
digs below the surface of the debate by examining the language being
used by…
clock | January 3, 2007If you do not know who Roper is, read this, this and this. A total fundie wingnut in charge of a large teaching hospital! Oy vey! I did not know that fact when I originally wrote this post, but this explains it....(From July 15, 2005)
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Do you know what's wrong with the US health-care system? It was taken over by MBAs, meddling - again - in areas they know nothing about. They have implemented the "business model" of health-care, which is the most nonsensical way imaginable. Medicine never was, is not, should not be, and cannot be a business. It is…
clock | December 30, 2006...I attended the Edwards rally in Chapel Hill, NC, together with some 5000 other people. My musings can be found here and here.
clock | December 22, 2006Below the fold are the pictures of me, Prof. Steve Steve and Rev.Big Dumb Chimp taken immediately after the Ken Miller talk in Raleigh. If we look a little drunk or high, it is because we were just subjected to an overdose of theistic evolution and religious apologetics!
clock | December 17, 2006Ah, everyone is too busy getting ready for the holidays to remember to send their entries to the Tar Heel Tavern, so, this week, it is pretty small, but I am glad to see that I am not the only one writing about driving and traffic.
BTW, do not forget the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Blogger MeetUp tonight at 7pm at the library.
clock | December 9, 2006As a part of the Hardball College Tour, Tweety will be in Chapel Hill on Tuesday at the Memorial Hall, chatting for an hour with John Edwards. Tickets are free if you can come, or just watch on Tuesday night.
Though likelihood is small, it is not totally impossible Edwards may use this opportunity to announce his Presidential run.
But, what does it mean to announce? This is such a drawn-out ceremony. First you go on TV and, when asked, respond it is too early to even think about it. Later, you go on TV and say you have not ruled it out. Then, you go on TV and say that you have not made…
clock | December 9, 2006Go check out The Mill and Carrboro Commons.
The Mill Editor did some digging and found that a lot of cool scientific research on climate is being done locally.
clock | November 14, 2006Yikes! This was here in my neighborhood, in Winston-Salem, NC! Poor guy - did he get an education! What does he think about America now?
My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists:
When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists. What followed was a six-month hell of dawn church visits and sex education talks as his new family tried to banish the devil from his soul. Here's his story.
Read the whole thing - it is an incredible story. The family's whole purpose in taking him in…
clock | November 14, 2006Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives, new book by Sen.John Edwards hit the bookstores today (I can't afford it right now but it is on my wish list for later). You can read an excerpt here, check the dates and places for his booksigning tour, see the schedule for his media appearances (lots of them, including The Daily Show and Letterman) here and discuss it here.
clock | November 12, 2006On The Media is one of my favourite NPR shows and today I was lucky to be in the car for almost the entire show. Today's show was very "bloggy". First, they had a report of the election and mentioned the positive impact of the netroots as well as the way Internet was ahead of CNN et al. in posting results (e.g., in Virginia).
Then, Steve Rubel talked about the way large companies can use blogs to connect with their customers.
Then , they had Marc Lynch of Abu Aardvark on , not as a blogger, or a curiosity, but as an expert - the best person to summarize the responses of Middle-Eastern…
clock | November 11, 2006Chairman of the NC Democratic Party wants to know who would you like to see run against her.
clock | November 7, 2006Last night I went back to my old campus to attend the Dr. Robert Rabb Lecture by Ken Miller. The Stewart Theater was packed. I saw a lof of old friends, but, as it was crowded, only got to spend some time talking to a couple of them.
Oh, there were bloggers there, too, of course. I first met up with Reed and Professor Steve Steve. Steve Steve is omnipresent (today in Raleigh, NC, yesterday in Vancouver, before that in Australia), omniscient and omnipotent (knew how and then fixed the computer and projector for the speaker) and benevolent (endless patience getting his picture taken with…
clock | November 7, 2006I voted at 9:40am and was voter #299 at our place which is huge! In some years there is less than that whole day.
Even more, earlier today, when I was dropping off my daughter at school around 7:50am, there was a line there with people even standing outside in the cold rain! I have NEVER seen a line there in the last 3.5 years here.
Oh, and if you are so new here that you do not know how I may have voted, I feel like this and this.
There is a judge race (officially non-partisan) in which I did not vote because the self-professed Democrat is bat-shit crazy (and not even endorsed by the…
clock | November 6, 2006If you are in Chapel Hill (Orange County) NC and want to know how to vote on some races you did not pay much attention to, consult Concerned Citizen and Orange Politics. The debates in the comments at OP are quite informative as the candidates themselves tend to show up often.
For the broader Triangle area, check out the Independent and Exile on Jones Street.
For races across North Carolina, go for info to BlueNC