Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Regarding the Democratic debate to be held here at Drexel in two weeks, I last posted that I was pondering some questions to ask.  Here are some possibilities I’ve come up with; comments solicited:
1.) Thomas Jefferson exhorts us to “Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.’  What […]

I am currently working at Drexel University, which has recently been scheduled to host the October 30th Democratic Presidential debate. This means, presumably, that I may have the opportunity to ask a question.
Being a mathematician and educator by trade, I am particularly interested in questions on math, science, education, or combinations of these. […]

I have a promised weekly article quota to fill and the obvious topic of political ranting — President Deigns to Stop Breaking Some Laws, Demands Right to Continue Breaking Others — is so old and repeated that I’m tired of it. Get me a Democratic chamber of Congress already so I can have some semblance […]

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor
So now a guy with a chip in his head can play Pong. It took 20 years to go from Pong (1972) to the Web (1991), 25 years for the Web to be serious business. At that rate, I should be jacking in sometime in my early 50s. […]

We often say that issues like same-sex marriage, immigration, flag-burning and the like are issues promoted solely to arouse desired voters.  The implication is that this is unwise, and we would rather our legislators ran on (and spent their governing time on) issues already important to us.  Very well then…
1) What do people actually care […]

…because everybody needs a little touch of His Noodly Appendage now and then. Even those wacky creationists.

As you know, the unconstitutionally established state religion of America (Protestant Christianity) has a few national holidays, among them one you may not have heard of, the National Day of Prayer. This year it’s Thursday, May 4th. On that day a lot of people will be sweating bullets trying to help out their chosen beneficiaries, […]

We often like to think of butterflies as a symbol of peaceful, calm serenity. However, if one of the more esoteric Pentagon research projects goes forward, butterflies are going to be all about kickin’ ass — or at least, enabling the rest of the military to. As the BBC tells us, the plan calls for […]

While the moment has not yet arrived according to the blog’s clock, as you read this article it will most likely be Pi Day.
What is Pi Day you ask?  I’m so glad you asked.  Well, we’ll pretend you asked.
Pi Day is March 14 (3/14 in the American notation, you see), and it’s an excuse for […]

Augh, what a wonderful example of science, journalism, and biases. Keep your eye on the ball:
The New York Times did a study on abortion notification laws. The headline and the start of the article was “Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told: For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors […]