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Intelligent Design is Not Enough
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New edition of The End of Oil raises red flags
Paul Roberts' "The End of Oil" has come out in paperback with a new afterword that is hardly comforting.
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There's an elephant in the china shop of science
That is the warning sounded by Chris Mooney in his upcoming book The Republican War on Science.
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Thoughts on a rejection: Where will future critical thinkers come from?
...an organization that once took the lead in promoting innovative and critical thinking can no longer justify the risks....
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Save Our Science Teachers
Real education, i.e. the process of learning to think critically, suffers from the increasing trend toward teaching to the test, and no subject suffers more than science.
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Nature Out of Place by Roy and Jason Van Driesche
New books remind me of older books that still deserve attention, such as this excellent and readable title.
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Motivated by the Spotlight on Intelligent Design: A Review of SUDDEN ORIGINS by Jeffrey Schwartz
Since we are spotlighting the Intelligent Design sideshow in Kansas, I review an important but overlooked book.
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You Don't Have To Be... To...
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Bad News from the Deep Ocean plus a related book review
Objective scientists recognize a drumbeat of warning from a variety of sources. Special interests still engage in wishful thinking.
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Book Review: BEATING BACK THE DEVIL by Maryn McKenna
In this compelling book, readers relive events that made or are still making history and discover the human back stories.
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