“A charter school in St. Paul might become the first public school in Minnesota that caters specifically to educating girls. The national single-sex education movement has been stalled by differing research on the notion of ’separate but equal’ in the classroom. Single-sex education models have shown promising results. In coeducation classrooms, boys and girls are […]
Among the recent activities of our nation’s Drug Czar is pushing school districts to adopt a random drug testing policy for all students. ONDCP offers $125,000 grants to help with the costs involved. This is not just the sports participants, as in the past, but ALL students.
Adding to a huge tome listing unintended consequences […]
“Former Vice President Al Gore is starting a three-year $300 million publicity campaign to increase public awareness of climate change through ads in outlets like Men’s Health, Real Simple, Ebony, Scientific American, Wired, ‘American Idol’ and ‘The Daily Show.’ The campaign is spearheaded by Gore’s group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is forming partnerships […]
“Campaigners in the US are attempting to delay the start-up of the world’s most powerful particle smasher with a lawsuit claiming it could spawn dangerous particles or mini black holes that will destroy the entire Earth. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is nearing completion at CERN, the European centre for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland. […]
“Top climate brokers from more than 160 nations launched a new round of talks in Bangkok on Monday aimed at setting out a plan for the most ambitious treaty yet for battling global warming. … Meeting for the first time since marathon negotiations in Bali, Indonesia late last year, delegates at the UN-led talks will […]
“Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government provided-trailer that gives off formaldehyde fumes you finally win a federal grant. Then a collector announces that you have to pay back […]
“The sabotage of science is now a routine part of American politics. The same corporate strategy of bombarding the courts and regulatory agencies with a barrage of dubious scientific information has been tried on innumerable occasions — and it has nearly always worked, at least for a time. Tobacco. Asbestos. Lead. Vinyl chloride. Chromium. Formaldehyde. […]
“For more than a decade, a fierce debate about peak oil has been raging between those who think a peak in global oil production is at hand and those who think the world is not close to running out of oil. The debate is moot for two reasons. First, the growing threat of global warming […]
“What would it take to convince you that your town should play host to the world’s most feared human and animal pathogens? Believe it or not, five states are locked in fierce competition over a proposed bioterror lab that would have them doing just that. In 2002, the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]
Interview with Robert Paarlberg, author of Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa. Paarlberg: “My students know just what kind of food system they want: a food system that isn’t based on industrial scale monoculture. They want instead small farms built around nature imitating polycultures. They don’t want chemical use; they […]
