Ban looms for subway shutterbugs
Transit officials are moving ahead with a planned ban on taking pictures, filming and videotaping in the subway system - saying it’s a necessary security measure in the post-9/11 world.
The article goes on to say that the MTA rejected a less-stringent measure that would have allowed most photography, while still banning […]
What I Did On Thanksgiving Day, by Mikey Dietsch, age 36.
[or skip the jabbering and go straight to Jen’s pictures]
Jennifer and I had a yummy Thanksgiving Day with lots of good food and fun things. First we went to Sarafina Broadway, where we met up with members of the Lunch Club. We had brunch while […]
Purchased for Thanksgiving, but opened early for “quality control,” this 15-year-old single malt is light on the smokey peaty notes that characterize other scotches. The Glenmorangie is heathery or floral, with notes of nutmeg and allspice, vanilla, chocolate, and almonds. As I sipped, it slightly zapped the tip of my tongue and the back, but […]
An Alaskan librarian claims that the Web allows ignorance to spread “farther and faster than ever before.” To prove his own point, he misspells the names of columnists Dan Gillmor and Dave Barry, and miscites the name of Gillmor’s new treatise. Oops.
Readers of satire site Hoosier Gazette apparently didn’t catch the satire, judging from this collection of recent letters.
A Pennsylvania school district is the first in the nation to approve the teaching of intelligent design, also known as “creationism in a cheap tuxedo.”
The district’s website states: “Because Darwin’s theory is a theory, it is still being tested as new evidence is discovered.”
Again, we see complete disregard for what a theory means. […]
Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69
John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.
[It’s a hoax, folks. Don’t you think the […]
I just bought one of these pretty things:
It looks just like this, except that mine is graphite, a darker grey.
So, let’s recall our definitions.
Merriam-Webster says that a theory is “a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena”.
How does evolutionary theory fit this bill? It provides a body of principles to explain the phenomena related to the origin and diversification of life. Scientists generally affirm these principles, even […]
