Politics
90 posts
The Chronicle of Higher Education has is running an election blog and today’s story deals with the candidates’ stands on science. But of even greater interest to me are the side-bars. A running straw poll for both parties (Obama leads the Dems and McCaine Republicans, see image) and an interactive […]
I knew nothing of this project until I received the following press release. Unfortunately it is only on HD stations, so I will not be able to see it. Let me know how it is. (Sounds like a curious project to me.) Bishop Baxter Participates in Dialogues in Democracy – […]
I have been looking into this program for a while and now that they will do a “buy one give one” program this November ($399 will get you an XO laptop and give one to a child in a developing country) my interest is piqued again. Coincidentally, as I was […]
It isn’t CNN or The Daily Show.This is really old news. I mean really old news since I am about to comment on a three year old story. My wife is teaching a communications course at PSU this semester and one of the assignments required is to watch the video […]
Cross-posted from my SHC blog: I have just uploaded a podcast recorded in mid-April with Karen Swensen, Scholar class of 1991, and former WWL-TV anchor. Karen lived in New Orleans from 1992 until early 2006 and she remained in NOLA during Katrina, as did her husband, a homicide detective with […]
Partially in response and reflection on Jerry Falwell’s passing the NYTimes and the Washington Post both have articles about where “the evangelical Christian movement” is going today. I did not post anything about Rev. Falwell’s death for various reasons. I do want to comment that although I sometimes (often) disagreed […]
A message from Penn State and University Scholar alumnus Peter Klein (this year’s Luchinsky Lecturer): … When we look back on this period after 9/11, how will we judge the country’s treatment of Muslim- and Arab-Americans? We wanted to explore that question by examining specific cases, searching for parallels to […]
Two Bradys, Two Brothers, Two Doctorates, and at least Two Views. We discuss our different set ups, Windows for Steve (XP) and Mac OSX for Chris. I followed the directions found here. More topics covered: Honda Civic Hybrid – See Steve’s blog entry and why Steve is now a Conservative […]