The US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works have released an interesting report on the growing undercurrent of dissent on the ‘consensus view’ of global warming within the scientific community. Worth a look.
Archive for December, 2007
An Interesting Contribution
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Technology In The Classroom
Monday, December 17th, 2007Believe it or not, this is one story that doesn’t come from MY classroom. A discipline letter from a local school is making waves on the internet after a student was apparently given two hours of detention for using the Firefox web browser in class instead of Internet Explorer. The teacher (a Business Education Career Project Teacher) was apparently unaware that Firefox is also extremely widely used. This is showing up on blogs and webpages all over the internet: here, for example. And here, here, and here. If you would like the foreign take on it, try this, that, or the other.
UPDATE 12/17/07 6.08PM: This was a hoax. Put the pitchforks and torches away, and call back the hounds. I was rather skeptical of it at first (because that’s just not how I would write a discipline referral), but I should have put my skepticism more forcefully than just saying “apparently” a lot. Whoever perpetrated this was quite clever!
The Internet’s Impact On Daily Life
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007It seems that the internet is really influencing people’s lives, and not necessarily in the way you would think.
The Internet’s Impact On Daily Life
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007It seems that the internet is really influencing people’s lives, and not necessarily in the way you would think.
One Feisty Old Lady
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Rather an entertaining news clip about a feisty little old lady.