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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Great Leap Backward
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The Great Leap Backward. Donald Trump has promised to make America great again. He is doing this in several ways. He just announced a funding cut (over a billion dollars) to the National Institutes of Health. We can go back to the days when if you get sick, the doctors won’t know what to do, and you can just go home and die. By someone you’ve all heard of. Magazine about this upcoming meeting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: June 2016
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Sunday, June 26, 2016. I just finished reading Jules Verne’s. Voyage au Centre de la Terre. In French. No, I did not enter it word for word into Google Translate. I’m now quite good at reading French, but still very bad at understanding spoken French and creating my own sentences. I am trying to get used to the abundance of silent letters in French. (For example, the last seven letters of. It was getting spewed out of a volcano in Sicily. Professor Liedenbrock, wh...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: February 2017
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Now more than ever before in our history it is incongruous to see a botany bill in Congress (intentional pun). But here it is: a bill that promotes botany, botany education, and plant conservation! The Botanical Sciences and Native PlantMaterials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act. Has a Democratic and a Republican sponsor. See here. For a summary of the main points of the bill. Thursday, February 23, 2017. Apparently we were wrong.
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Botany in Congress
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Now more than ever before in our history it is incongruous to see a botany bill in Congress (intentional pun). But here it is: a bill that promotes botany, botany education, and plant conservation! The Botanical Sciences and Native PlantMaterials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act. Has a Democratic and a Republican sponsor. See here. For a summary of the main points of the bill. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Prophecies of Jules Verne
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Saturday, March 18, 2017. Prophecies of Jules Verne. My coming-of-age experience in literature and science was when, in sixth grade, I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers),. In English of course. Soon I hope to read it in French. (I already notice that the French title was “under the seas,” not sea.). Apparently the manuscript of this novel was found in 1994 in the proverbial locked drawer of a desk which Verne’s gran...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: July 2016
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Sunday, July 31, 2016. Horrors of War, Pleasures of Peace. France, Part 2. On July 13, my wife and I visited the Musée Historique de Strasbourg. On July 15, we were back in Old Strasbourg at the Place Kléber (Kleber Plaza) and the Cathedral. What I saw at those times was immensely moving and significant and may have been my most memorable experience in France. Most striking of all were the centuries of religious intolerance and slaughter. Throughout most of th...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: January 2017
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Friday, January 27, 2017. Scientists as Communicators, or, Those Amazing Insects. May Berenbaum, President of the Entomological Society of America, published an editorial in the September 23, 2016 issue of Science. Magazine. She described the unfortunate lack of knowledge and appreciation that the general public has regarding insects. The average American thinks of insects as disgusting and dangerous. This, she says, has to change. And Bugs in the System. May, sho...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Fear of the Lord
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Thursday, March 16, 2017. The Fear of the Lord. Most conservative Christians believe the Biblical statement, which I am in too much of a hurry to look up right now, that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Most agnostics and humanists would vigorously reject this statement. But maybe it is, in a way, true. If so, how? 8221; But instead I believe that “fear” means awe. Second, the Biblical statement says the fear of the Lord is the beginning. Have th...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: May 2016
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Friday, May 13, 2016. Another Arms Race of Social Evolution: Getting Published. And it is a process of accelerating social evolution—an arms race of social evolution. As time goes on there are fewer publishers of literary or academic works, and more authors. This means that authors have to keep going to ever greater lengths to get noticed. But I refused to begin with the sex scene. Instead, I merely added a little sex—not gratuitous sex, but relevant to ...So I am...
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: September 2016
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Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics. Monday, September 26, 2016. Do Police Killings Show a Racial Bias? It seems like at least once a week, if not more often, we get news of an unarmed black man being killed by white police officers. When it happened in the city where I live, I started thinking more about what is happening. I have not seen evidence that any of the white officers were motivated by overt. Racial hatred. But it appears that there is an underlying. And we all understand that mistakes wil...
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