Posts from ‘June, 2009’
U.S. to push for free online courses
Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration.
Some statistical evidence that the Iranian election was rigged
Vote results indicate biases typical of human-invented pseudo-random numbers.
The Harmonic Bridge
MASS MoCA in North Adams MA rules.
SCOTUS draws the line: No warrantless school strip-search of 13-year-old for ibuprofen
But just barely — more serious drugs would have pushed a majority to allow it.
God and Science Don’t Mix
Physicist Lawrence Krauss says it with grace
Two thirds of UK teens don’t believe in God
And 6 out of 10 believe that religion has a negative influence on the world.