Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Tuesday, May 11th, 2004
Don't mind me - just dropping by quickly to say that the school stuff is slowly moving along (3/4 of it should be done by Monday), and the cicadas have officially arrived in my little section of Northern Virginia. We've got several dozen shells on the deck, and maybe a ...
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Thursday, April 15th, 2004
I guess I would too.
Grab the nearest book.Open the book to page 23.Find the fifth sentence.Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"What a waste."
David L. Hull. (1999). On the Plurality of Species: Questioning the Party Line. In R. A. Wilson, ed., Species: New Interdisciplinary ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2004
Being a raging evolutionist, I gotta love The Panda's Thumb. The design, however, leaves much to be desired.
I wonder if Scrivs would take suggestions for the April Version 2 target site. Of course, even if he did it'd probably be a good idea to avoid having a straight-out blog ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
From CNN.com - Skeptical Supreme Court weighs Pledge case. Looks like it'll be a bit before we can get hold of the transcripts of the oral arguments, and (of course) a while before a decision is rendered.
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Sunday, February 29th, 2004
There's a well-known phenomenon in cognitive psychology called cognitive dissonance. It's something that most people are familiar with even if they don't recognize the label; you get CD when you are confronted with situations that conflict with things you know (or hold strongly to be true). The effects of CD ...
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