This week’s link list is slightly shorter than usual, because my time and energy have been dominated for the past few days by the task of writing three essays for ABC-CLIO’s “Enduring Questions” academic reference database, in the enticingly titled category, “World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy.” But there’s still plenty of worthwhile reading here,…
Tag: evolution
Glen Rose, Texas: Where dinosaurs walked with men
I live just 45 miles from the town of Glen Rose, Texas, which is the subject of this informative new feature article in The Texas Observer. (Or how should one describe it besides “informing”? Amusing, perhaps? Illuminating? Galling? Surreal?) I’ve been there, taken the tours, seen the dinosaur prints. But no human prints in among…
News flash: New study shows formal learning requires effort!!!!
If my tone in this post sounds sarcastic, don’t worry, you’re not imagining things. My tone really is sarcastic. Some things, I’ve learned, positively beg for a rich heaping of irony. The latest issue of Education Week contains the following article, published online June 16 and published in print June on 17: Effort, Engagement, and…