Bush's National Mathematics Advisory Panel: prejudiced against women? (petition)

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 7:51 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 19:51

Last April Bush created the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. Its purpose is to, "advise the President and Secretary [of Education] Spellings on the best use of scientifically based research on the teaching and learning of mathematics."

Now, you know this probably spells trouble. There do seem to be some good, qualified people on this panel. But the Vice Chair of the panel is Dr. Camilla Persson Benbow, who co-authored a series of papers in the 1980s that have been used repeatedly ever since to buttress the myth that women are inferior to men in the higher aptitude levels of science and math. Giving a controversial figure like Dr. Benbow such a prominent leadership post sends a very bad message.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is calling for her removal from this panel. Check out the details below the fold and sign the AWM's petition. Read More

BYU fires professor over gay marriage column

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 9:45 AM PDT

2006/06/16 · 09:45

Jeffrey Nielsen, a philosophy instructor at Brigham Young University, published this opinion piece supporting gay marriage in the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this month. As a result, he was fired from the university.

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NSA data mining might be effective

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 5:49 PM PDT

2006/05/12 · 17:49

Recently SusanG and georgia10 posted a quote by Valdis Krebs that states, "If you're looking for a needle, making the haystack bigger is counterintuitive. It just doesn't make sense." This is meant to indicate that the NSA's apparent program of creating a database of all domestic phone calls would ineffective at capturing terrorists. In the interest of helping us all be well-informed on this issue, I'd like to offer a different perspective, one that disagrees with Mr. Krebs. The NSA's approach could actually be effective. Read More

Who will really rebuild New Orleans?

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 7:03 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 19:03

One aspect of Hurricane Katrina that hasn't been talked about much is the fact that a huge percentage -- virtually all of New Orleans' poor have now been scattered among many neighboring states. Many, if not most, will never return to N.O. This article by Christopher Cooper in the Wall Street Journal looks at this fact and at the "Old-Line Families" who want to rebuild the city, only without all those pesky lower income problems.

The power elite of New Orleans ... insist the remade city won't simply restore the old order. New Orleans before the flood was burdened by a teeming underclass, substandard schools and a high crime rate. The city has few corporate headquarters.

The new city must be something very different, Mr. Reiss says, with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," he says. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again, or we're out."

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 11:44 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 11:44

Before the election RI Senator Lincoln Chafee was quoted saying wasn't going to vote for GWB but that he wouldn't be switching parties. Now he's talking differently.

Not only did Chafee, a moderate Republican, cast a write-in ballot for W's father as a form of protest, he now says he's not ruling out switching parites. Read More

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