Just had to correct a line in Sprog the Younger’s English essay…
education
formal, eclectic, iconoclastic, autodidactic – all the ways we learn
Quick Hit – World Health Day and a Voice For Choice
April 7 is World Health Day. Mothers for Choice are having a blogswarm on why Abortion is a health issue not a crime.
Quotable: Krugman latest on GOP “employment” policy
that’s the kind of answer that, in Econ 101, has you suggesting that the student get special tutoring
Quicklink: Survey reveals extent of sex assault at unis
One in 10 female students have experienced sexual violence while at university and more than one-third have been sexually harassed, according to a new survey by the National Union of Students (NUS).
SIWOTI: Sagan’s ECREE maxim is NOT nonsense
Please pardon the acronyms in the title (expansions forthcoming in the post), I’m attempting to keep my post titles reasonably concise. Which is exactly what the final sentence in the quote below does in relation to the rest of the paragraph preceding it: it restates the whole argument of the paragraph pithily in just five words: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
How the carbon price works
That is the whole point: to make goods that are generated with more carbon pollution relatively more expensive than goods that are generated with less carbon pollution.
US High Schools refusing to allow student atheist groups
The level of bigotry against atheists in the USA frequently appals me; this article by Greta Christina lays out one of the less obvious ways it is expressed.
What if boys cared about gender equality?
(Thanks to Emily Maguire for the link to this video from Sydney Boys High School on their Gender Equality Project). Cross-posted at blue milk.
Happy Darwin Day
Charles Darwin was born 202 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 152 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Friday Hoyden: Dr Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English Bar
“She now set her heart on being called to the bar (not, it seems, for her own sake but to offer free legal advice to the poor).”
Hoyden About Town 