Just Searching for Some Truth

(Reblogged from hares-and-hawkeye)

ikenbot:

Science Query for the Presidential Candidates
I wonder when will the public start demanding scientific literacy among their governing officials, including presidential candidates. We were not a country founded on religious beliefs yet it floods our country’s interest for some odd reason. Would it be too much to ask these people have at least a basic, well-rounded sense of the scientific method, much like we require the same level of expertise from our doctors, scientists, teachers, etc.?.
Here’s a nice article via SciAm that reiterates a similar concern:
3 Science Questions to Ask U.S. Presidential Candidates
“As you may already be aware from my previous posts, The Guardian U.S. and NYU’s Studio 20 journalism lab have teamed up to push a project called The Citizens’ Agenda into the media discourse surrounding the U.S. presidential 2012 election. The idea: find out what you–the citizens–want the candidates to be discussing over the next four months – usually meaning questions of substance about policy rather than horserace and gotcha questions so pervasive in mainstream media.”
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Science Query for the Presidential Candidates

I wonder when will the public start demanding scientific literacy among their governing officials, including presidential candidates. We were not a country founded on religious beliefs yet it floods our country’s interest for some odd reason. Would it be too much to ask these people have at least a basic, well-rounded sense of the scientific method, much like we require the same level of expertise from our doctors, scientists, teachers, etc.?.

Here’s a nice article via SciAm that reiterates a similar concern:

3 Science Questions to Ask U.S. Presidential Candidates

“As you may already be aware from my previous posts, The Guardian U.S. and NYU’s Studio 20 journalism lab have teamed up to push a project called The Citizens’ Agenda into the media discourse surrounding the U.S. presidential 2012 election. The idea: find out what you–the citizens–want the candidates to be discussing over the next four months – usually meaning questions of substance about policy rather than horserace and gotcha questions so pervasive in mainstream media.”

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Always a fun movie to relax and enjoy on a weekend.

(Source: bethbright)

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I love comics but there is always a great uproar when love or sex is involved in something, regardless of the medium, movie, comic, or other and when violence is involved the uproar tends to be less. In my opinion you should talk to your kids about both, explain it to them and answer their questions.

greyusurper:

Take that “One Million Moms”!

(Source: noisyman)

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cardio-greentea-stretching:

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kvinnamedklass:

Down into your belly…

I can’t look at McDonalds anymore…that fucking yellow M makes me sick!

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positive-outlooks:

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” -Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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