J. Scott Turner comments on why academe ought to allow questions about “design” in nature. A few good quotes: I wonder, for example, what demon had gripped a past president of Cornell University when he singled out intelligent design as a unique threat to academic and civil discourse. Aren’t universities […]
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Muna Heaven is not just a Penn State grad, she is an SHC grad! Jamaican, Muna Heaven, on Trump’s ‘Apprentice’ (Jamaica) (Photo courtesy of NBC) Muna Heaven, a 28-year-old Jamaican-born attorney from New Jersey has been named among the eighteen candidates for the sixth edition of Donald Trump NBC reality […]
Today we remember MLK and his great contributions to our society and world. I was honored to be asked to speak at the PSU service later today. My remarks are below. After having spent the last several weeks reading Dr. King’s sermons I am keenly aware of how limited and […]
Too good not to simply quote in full. From Biblische Ausbildung: U2 and Martin Luther King “Pride (In the Name of Love)” is the second song on U2’s 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire, and was released as the album’s first single. Written about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is […]
UPDATE: A number of people are coming here from Google’s own blog entry on this topic (which I just realized dates from 9/16/2005!). Let me summarize my point in a single sentence. Since Google will not remove Google bombs they are undermining their usefulness and objectivity as a search engine. […]
I am a very big fan of Wait, Wait. In fact, I listen to it on my iPod as a podcast because our local NPR station does’t carry it. SO I was pleased to read in TUAW this report: Today, NPR’s tongue-in-cheek news quiz Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! featured […]
Scot McKnight of Jesus Creed is reviewing Dawkin’s latest. He provides links to other reviews and sets up some nice snippets. Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion has provided many of us with plenty to talk about and I want to say thanks for the conversation. Some have written to me […]
Well worth the read. Time Gets Background Story on the iPhone – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) As usual Time magazine seems to have gotten a bit of a sneak peak of a hot new Apple product. In this nice writeup, Lev Grossman discusses some of the background behind the […]
To keep the iPhone debate going… WSJ asks: Will the iPhone be a hit or a flop? Filed under: Macworld, Analysis / Opinion, Cult of Mac, Surveys and Polls, iPhone I thought online polls where strictly blog territory, but it seems that august publications like the Wall Street Journal are […]
MP3 Player Ownership by Class Originally uploaded by colecamp.From Cole Camplese. Very interesting stat and my guess is that the numbers will only rise.