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POPSJust When I Thought He was an Enlightened Person Just when I thought he was an enlightened person, he turns out to be a dingbat. Oh, well, I guess cleaning up a state's laws that supported cronyism and closed government--worse than any state in the nation had been--is no guarantee you won't turn out to be an intellectual Neanderthal.
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POPSNeanderthals at Mealtime: Pass the Meat "The study reconfirms previous studies that the Neanderthals were highly carnivorous and fed primarily on large mammals," said Richard Klein, a professor of anthropological sciences in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, adding, "I think it is totally convincing."
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POPSFlorida, No Champion Of Education!
The good news is, Fla. is now allowed to use the word EVOLUTION to describe an educational study in science. The bad news is, the people, the ones with their heads forever stuck in a book of ancient writings, got their clueless compromise. They made the somewhat backwards educational system of Fla. (which they themselves are mostly responsible for) a bit more regressive by not allowing Evolution to stand alone. They, (Neanderthal school board members) said ... the "E" word is OK, as long as it's called "A THEORY" but these poor stymied script people, haven't a glimmer of what Scientific Theory means. They mindlessly believe it means speculation or inconclusive evidence. When in fact it means, an explanation based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning. Scientific theory is based on careful, rational examination of facts. A fact is something that is supported by unmistakable evidence. And who are the losers, WHY OUR CHILDREN OF COURSE. :cry: http://www.fsteiger.com/theory.html
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POPSHow to stop a temper tantrum See the full article for the author's critique of Karp's Neanderthal comparison and an argument that this kind of logic sometimes applies to adults.
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POPSTHE BEST SCI FI BEING WRITTEN TODAY Robert Sawyer is so far ahead of most of the rest of contemporary Speculative Fiction writers you would have to travel FTL in order to catch up to him. What is so striking about his works is the totally fresh thinking, and his willingness to ask hard questions about Life the Universe and Everything. Sorry the answer isn't 42 as once was humourously speculated. My favourites are his Neanderthal Trilogy and his novel Calculating God. He is subtle not pedantic, caring through his characters, and rigorous with his science background.
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POPSTest Yourself: Are You a Neanderthal? The test follows: If you suspect a "touch of the old hand axe" in your ancestry, score yourself on this test: 1. Do your eyebrows meet in the middle? If so, give yourself five points. 2. Can you lock your knees in an upright position? If not, take five points. 3. Got a chin? If the answer is no, add three points. 4. How about a forehead? If not, add another three points. 5. Is it easy for you to balance a book on your head? Then give yourself five points. 6. Do you ever open Coke bottles with your teeth? If you do, add ten points. 7. Are you frequently more comfortable squatting on your heels than sitting in a chair? Take five points. 8. Is your head attached vertically to your neck? If not, add one point for every five degrees of slope. 9. Less than five feet tall? Add one point for every inch under. 10. If your lower arm is shorter than your upper arm, add one point for every inch of difference. 11. Ditto for your lower and upper legs. 12. Pigeo
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POPSNeanderthals hard-wired to talk The first specific nuclear gene variant retrieved is one that prior studies have linked to language and speech in humans and suggests Neanderthals had the capacity to develop speech.
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POPSFollow The Money - Republican Execs Going Democratic Jeffrey Volk, a managing director at Citigroup in New York, says he grew disenchanted with Republicans after the federal government failed to provide more help to the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He says he's supporting Clinton. It was absolutely inconceivable to me that after 9/11 another catastrophe could hit a major American city, and the United States government was not prepared. John Canning, a deputy board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, expressed similar misgivings. He described the Republican Party in an April interview as neanderthal for its positions on stem-cell research and global warming. He says he liked Obama's opposition to the war in Iraq and his approach to reducing greenhouse gases. I no longer find myself on the same page as Republicans.
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