Oblivious to Mendel’s work and significance, and to much else in the world of knowledge, the Texas State Board of Education debates how to frustrate the teaching of evolution with hearings in Austin tomorrow, and a vote on supplementary materials to texts in biology on Friday, July 22.
Mendel would urge, pray for Texas and the children who will be saddled with the decision of the Texas SBOE.
Nice pictures — the wallpaper is cooler than Google’s rather sterile white background. I’m not much fond of the way Bing shows images, with some down the side when you check out another, but without any identifying data to help you figure out which ones to check out.
But I stumbled into a major problem: At least on DDT, Bing favors the Tinfoil Hat Brigades™, featuring crank science almost exclusively on the first page in my early searches, compared to Google’s pointing first to the hard science.
Importantly, this tells me that Bing is not safe to assign to students doing research.
Bing will bear watching all summer. Can they get it up to speed by the opening of schools in the fall?
DDT (from its trivial name, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is one of the most well-known synthetic pesticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT – Cached – Similar –
The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three decades of application during which time … http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm – Cached – Similar –
“We have the worst DDT hotspot in the entire US,” he said. “That we’re still stuck with this horrible legacy decades later is awful.” From 1947 to 1971, …
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday — nearly …
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_re_us/us_ocean_ddt – Similar –
by Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson – 2002 – Nature – 378 pages
Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters” (Peter Matthiessen,…
books.google.com/books?isbn=0618249060… –
Rachel Carson sounded the initial alarm against DDT, but represented the science of DDT… The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a … http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html – Cached – Similar –
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public… Seattle Times 23 hours ago
DDT (from its trivial name, d ichloro d iphenyl t richloroethane) is one of the most well-known synthetic pesticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, and controversial … Properties and chemistry · History · Environmental impact
In professional wrestling a DDT is any move in which the wrestler falls down or backwards to drive a held opponent’s head into the mat. The classic DDT is performed by putting the …
JunkScience.com spotlights and debunks faulty scientific data and analysis used to promote special agendas, such as those of activist groups, personal injury lawyers, regulators …
Exposure to DDT, DDE, and DDD occurs mostly from eating foods containing small amounts of these compounds, particularly meat, fish and poultry. High levels of DDT can affect the …
When people hear the word, “pesticides,” they often associate it with something very negative. And many times, they’ll soon think of DDT. DDT is one of the most famous pesticides …
DDT Ban Takes Effect [EPA press release – December 31, 1972] The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three …
DDT. The Wall Street Journal Endorses Use of DDT. The Wall Street Journal endorses using DDT on its Editorial Opinion page (8/16/07) stating: “Opponents of …
… insect pests; the term commonly refers to chemical agents only. Chemical Insecticides
….. Click the link for more information.. First introduced during the 1940s, it killed insects that spread disease and feed on crops. Swiss scientist Paul Müller was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering (1939) DDT‘s …
DDT or 2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1,1,-trichloroethane, chlorinated hydrocarbon compound used as an insecticide insecticides, chemical, biological, or other agents used to destroy …
The third entry goes to a wrestling maneuver, the fifth entry is the biggest crank science site. The ninth entry plunges back into crank science at its worst. This is much improved since I tried it last night and got nothing but crank science (Bing is improving quickly).
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Dead Link?
We've been soaking in the Bathtub for several months, long enough that some of the links we've used have gone to the Great Internet in the Sky.
If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to that post, and tell us what link has expired.
Thanks!
Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control.
My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it.
BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah
Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona
JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
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