There are less than 12 hours left of the Bush presidency. Let me repeat: less than 12 hours left of the Bush presidency. I was a junior in high school when Bush became President. Though I remember the various happenings of the Clinton Presidency, I didn't become politically aware until Bush was elected. Over the past eight years, I have cried, ( Read more... )

This is awful:
The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation's leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters ( Read more... )

Go Vote!!! Now!!! If you don't know where to go, google "[your county] elections" and it'll find the website you need to look at. I'll make it easy if you live near me:
Dallas County | Collin County

Now go! It's important!

This just seems silly for a City Council to even consider:
Dallas school trustee Ron Price, with the backing of several City Council members, wants to prohibit pants that hang well below the waist. He wants an ordinance banning the look within city limits ( Read more... )

I briefly mentioned a commercial a few weeks back that claimed there was absolutely nothing wrong with CO2 and we should do nothing to stop the rising levels in our atmosphere. Well, today I found another commercial by the same people (Competitive Enterprise Institute) about recent scientific studies on global warming. This one claims that studies ( Read more... )

Everything is going well. I still don't have my assignment for my TAship which is rather annoying since the Apple Store needs to know my availability for the upcoming weeks and I won't know until sometime next week. Hopefully everything will work out, though. I need to contact Dr. Kane about working with her on the research stuff. I can't believe ( Read more... )