ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread Michael J Kane MJKANE
[Please forgive the cross-posting] Well, they pulled the plug on the UK course debunking ID. Sad it ended up this way. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051201/ap_on_re_us/creationism_class -Mike *** Michael J. Kane Department of Psychology P.O. Box

Demeaning Mileva Maric

2005-12-02 Thread Allen Esterson
BBC News online reports a Grand webcast to honour Einstein, 1 December 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4486234.stm Interestingly, none of the Einstein links on this BBC webpage refer to the Mileva Maric controversy. My impression is that the various claims about an alleged

Re: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread Stephen Black
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RE: ID course cancelled --[NOT TIPS-related]

2005-12-02 Thread Marc Carter
Confusion noted. The U of Kansas generally refers to itself as "KU," not "UK." Around here they say "UK" is the University of Kentucky, but not originally being from the midwest, I liked being able to discriminate between news about the United Kingdom andthe KUbasketball team, which quite

RE: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Black wrote: I also liked this response (Journal-World, Nov 30) If a person has hate in his heart and says something hateful and later apologizes, do you think the hatred in his heart has been mended? State Sen. Kay O´Connor, R-Olathe, said Tuesday. I´m surprised that something

RE: ID course cancelled --[NOT TIPS-related]

2005-12-02 Thread Jim Dougan
I assume that Mirecki is tenured? Perhaps I am naive and idealistic, but why can't he just take a stand for academic freedom? We WILL lose academic freedom if people wimp out so easily. :( -- Jim Dougan At 10:57 AM 12/2/2005, you wrote: ?xml version=1.0 ? Confusion noted. The U of

Re: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread SMNagel29
In a message dated 12/2/2005 11:06:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was startled to discover that those usually sensible Brits would do such a thing. Then I discovered that "UK" referred to the University of Kansas and not the United Kingdom. Whew!

Re: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread sblack
[definitely not teaching of psychology related but that's why I love this list] On 2 Dec 2005 at 12:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will soon hold citizenship in England. It will be fantastic to have a saner world to retreat to when the going gets tougher. I'm pleased for you, Sandra, but be

Re: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread Allen Esterson
Sandra wrote [snip]: My significant other is British (which means English, Welsh, and Scottish, but not Northern Irish - yes?)... In Northern Ireland about 60 percent call themselves British, and the rest don't. Allen E. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To

Re: ID course cancelled and teaching load?!

2005-12-02 Thread SMNagel29
Oh goodie - something else to distract me from the overload of papers I regretfully assigned. =) Perhaps there is a hint of teaching relevance to this response. What does one do when an unrealistic teaching load (if one wishes to engage in other professorial activities) forces the