Connections: The Blindness of Cultural Arrogance
What do these Amazon natives have to do with the length of newspaper articles and white people’s Messiah complex? Connections is my attempt to make sense of some of the seemingly disparate things I learn in a given day of Web surfing.
Pic of the Day: Fishies!
Fishies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Calif., courtesy of my pal Spencer Lindsay.
Pic of the Day: Alien Squid?
An alien-looking squid was recently discovered by a drilling rig near Hawaii. National Geographic.
Latest Salvo in War on Science
It’s a good thing scientific principles don’t depend on a popularity contest to be true or we’d still be in the Dark Ages. Playing on the emotional appeal of “fair play,” creationism proponents in Texas want the theory of evolution included in the curriculum, weakening the rigor of the state’s science education.
