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What a great science fair project for some lucky kid. :)

Inflating Toy Balloons With Gas From the City Mains
Modern Mechanix : July, 1930...

AISD Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD
Austinist (Austin, Texas)

n an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a...

Comes up Short .

--J.D.

Interesting review from You Know Where TM . 8)

The Creation Museum - It's Unbelievable!

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In chamber after chamber, the Young Earth...

Minister calls for children to be locked in school to stop them buying junk food
This is London

Children should be locked inside school grounds...

Now he's got a main site as well as the blog.

Worth a look. 8)

New York’s Lake Wobegon Effect
City Journal

If New York’s commissioner of education, Richard Mills, is to be believed, one of the great success...

So burning the image of a cross into a kid's arm isn't considered wrong? :o

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The school board of a small central Ohio community...

Unsurprising I know...

One in eight U.S. high school biology teachers presents creationism or intelligent design in a positive light in the...

More evidences that the public school system is evil and must be destroyed.

Florida Teacher Accused Of Wizardry
Local 6 (Orlando FL)

Teacher...

Creation museum selling mastodon skull (MSNBC)

DALLAS - A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric...

6-Year Old Boy Accused of Sexual Harassment WSPA (ABC affiliate)

A six-year old boy is accused of sexually harassing a teacher in Greer. The...

A state politician who was giving a lecture to high school students inserted a data memory stick into a computer and the projected image of nude...

Because kids need to understand about cosmetic surgery.

Click pic for ABC News story.

bit of nostalgia for the old folks

Flogging my blog again.

I've heard this before, and intuitively it makes sense. But I never did any real research until now (and one bloody link barely constitutes research...

'The universe began when I took a dump in the men's room. The rest has been reverse engeneered from there.'

This is now an 'A' grade to 'How did the...

Seems that some Xians have a thing about all cultures having a belief in some higher power...

Well, turns out that humans are, more or less, the...

Bill would allow, but not require, schools to segregate sexes St. Petersburg Times (FL)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- School districts could have...

I'm not referring to the pupils.

And there is something truly evil about the whole institution anyway.

Prank led school to treat two with shock...

Article here .

On Friday, an advisory committee to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recommended that the state allow the Institute for...

By way of James Randi.

Reader Curtis Wolf, also chairman of the Florida Science Education Standards Committee – sponsored by the Center For...

This is about a television channel that many use as a source of information.

It appears that the Discovery Channel is more interested in promoting...

I say let's have a good old fashion book burning:

From Gao style Baguazhang

subtle skill

clever hands

The textbook is a product of the Bible Literacy Project, founded and run by Chuck Stetson, a conservative Christian New York-based equity fund...

Unruly schoolboys or sex offenders?

The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran...

And survive! 8)

From Randi's weekly column:

FOREVER UNINFORMED

The Creation Museum, a $27,000,000, 40,000 square-foot museum which presents...

:x

Venezuela's Chavez Warns Private Schools

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any...

I post this in education, because it is more about how to educate people than anything new in science.

A really good overview and correction of...

... the specter of TAG .

Colo. School Bans Tag on Its Playground

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An elementary school has banned tag on its...

Yo nigger!

BET TV Airing a PSA Telling Kids to 'Read a Mo F'n Book'?

Black Entertainment Television has been playing what is being called a...

From the St. Petersburg Times (Florida not Russia)

Special school programs for blacks: racist or essential?

For decades, school districts have...

Ohh, here I go again, fantasizing that education isn't meant to dumb people down again...

Anywhoo, here's the idea.

The critical thinking exercise...

I draw a picture to help everyone understand what I mean.

[quote= Chanileslie OVER THERE ]
Jeff, I don't know who the complaints came from or how they came into the JREF, but having kids in school and...

Expel high schoolers for making 'sexually suggestive comments, innuendos, propositions or engage in other similar conduct.' :idea:

New York City...

Clothes do not make the child.

The powers-that-be are attacking a tangential issue instead of dealing with the core problems, which are consistent...

Bizarre old photograph (big):

Obviously posed, but I expect they really did stuff like that.

Anybody here know about schools for the blind in...

He will smite you if you are not save yourself!!!!!!

:D

I won't get around to reading it until later, but it looks promising.

I can see that many of you are getting very negative, and I do not like this. I tried to avoid the confrontation and I think that will be a reality...

Plenty of folks who righteously reject the un-Biblical so-called theory of evilushine nevertheless swallow the blasphemous imposture of...

A Chick tract parody that doesn't just make fun.

It educates about evolution.

Just in case you care, the Rail Webcam SBB 460 078-9 (Swiss train cam) is back on line.

Unlike other rail cams, this does not take pictures of...

Not either of these venerable old traditions: Radical leftist academics doing serious important math, such as Noam Chomsky.

A group of concerned...

So many it must be a sign of something.....

Video with Mattie Stepanek

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Larry King Show quotes-
KING: Mattie Stepanek, what's an angel to you?

STEPANEK: I believe an...

A humanist at heart, Mr. Taleb ponders not only the effect of Black Swans but also the reason we have so much trouble acknowledging their existence....