Well that's one way to present your dissertation...

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

This isn't quite as serious as our usual DiscoveR8 fare, but it has potential implications for science education and public image. You guys have often heard me give Science magazine the dubious praise, "You would NEVER see this in Nature." Something else that I say all the time, though, is, "My feelings can only be expressed through dance."

Science magazine sent out a rather interesting call for not-exactly-papers. The challenge was "Tell us about your Ph.D. research ...through dance

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Education: Royal Society's Director of Education steps down over creationist remarks

Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

The Royal Society's Director of Education seems to have been forced to step down. Michael Reiss, who is both a professor at England's Institute of Education and an Anglican priest, stepped down the other day after a speech in which he advocated "engage in dialogue with the creationist views some children express in science classes" [Nature's words] re-raised old questions about whether priests should be appointed to such positions at all.

Frankly, I think it is perfectly possible for a priest to serve in such a capacity

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Evolution opponents use "strengths and weaknesses" rhetoric to undermine science in schools

Darkfrog submitted, created time 7 months 4 days (www.nytimes.com)

"Creation science" didn't work. "Intelligent design" didn't work. Thank God. The new move for opponents of the theory of evolution, according to this article in the New York Times, is "strengths and weaknesses." Strictly speaking, I have nothing against pointing out the scientific weaknesses of evolution, but most textbooks could probably handle that in half a page. The advocates of the "strengths and weaknesses" ideology want the textbook to say, "evolution has an inability to explain the Cambrian explosion," when it really ought to say, "we don't know what caused the Cambrian explosion

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