The fact that I'm spending this evening watching NOVA probably explains why I'm at home and not at a white castle's this valentine's day.

HOWEVER, it was really cool, it was going into amber, and showing how you could reconstruct the micro and macro habbitiates of the forest as well as what deductions you could make about the planet, geology, and evolution due to the amber. Plus, it was narrated by David Attenborough!

I unfortunatly, didnt get to watch it. I was too busy taking a fucked up test written by a professor Bellini. Do you remember him? I knew everything on the handouts and things we went over in class, I could teach it to you, and yet I looked at the test, and on nearly half the questions I could have reasoned several anwsers as being correct. MCB= total let down this semester. First test ever I walked out of not feeling good, i could have done really well, or not.

On the bright side of things, and what I really meant to say is that I loooove David Attenborough!

Its basically the first class you will see that will be a major challege and let you know if you can make it through the program.

NO, FALSE. FAlse. MCB 252 is NOT the first class that is challenging. It is stupid. Challenging does not equal confusing the student into not knowing what the hell you are asking them. Chemistry was challenging. And I did exceptionally well. MCB classes are my easy classes. FUCK 252.

Ah, gotcha, re-read your post. Ya, that sucks big time when a test isn't written on the focus of the material.

Are you going to have multiple professors in this MCB?

EDIT: I am an exceptionally angry girl today bc a. this test and b. no boy bought me chocolate and c. usually i get a card in the mail from my dog, but he died in sept, no card. sigh.....
dont mean to be hostile towards you

Si senior. This guy teaches half the class. But I hear the other professor is only marginally better. And my microbiology class is a let down this semester too due simply to the professor sucking. I like the material, but she's a horrible lecturer. MCB= total letdown Spring 06

Maybe I loved everything about 250 (molecular genetics) far tooooo much.

b. Here you go!

Same. I thought about driving down the street to gawk at the White Castle thing, but nah. Watched parts of Nova between games of pinball. Pretty cool stuff.

no way...you have a pinball machine? can i come over?

I love pinball.
Can't seem to find too many bars with
pinball machines to hone my skills.
Where to play around town?

Kind of off-subject. Bean, you're a science teacher. I'm looking for 70's or 80's science videos, but the really trippy, shitty ones with "futuristic" electronica and graphics. Videos teachers would play every year. My sister says they are not played anymore. Any labels to look for?

Why? Background for an upcoming party and I want some for a video project for a class. And 'cuz I too, find science nerdy fun.

...stuff...

I'm glad to see I'm not alone in enjoying this videos on my own.

I could watch this shit all day....

Thnx.

Leave it to the respected PBS science show "Nova" to put some common sense back into the often hysterical debate over whether intelligent design is science or religion - and remind us that Darwin's theory of evolution is a solid one that should be taught in science classes.

To understand these issues, all "Nova" producers really had to do was to re-enact portions of the precedent-setting trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover School District, the 2005 federal court case that held that intelligent design is not science and should not be taught in schools.

The two-hour special, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" (8, tonight PBS stations), features re-creations of the case using actual transcripts and includes present-day interviews with a number of parents, teachers, town officials, scientists, and intelligent design advocates.

It amounts to a riveting film with plenty of real-life heroes and villains, along with a nuts-and-bolts science lesson on what Darwin's theory says and what it doesn't.

In 2004, the Dover, Pa., school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students suggesting intelligent design is a legitimate alternative to the theory of evolution.

Intelligent design holds that life is too complex to have evolved naturally over time and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent. Dover's teachers refused to comply and parents opposed to this filed a federal lawsuit saying the statement violated the separation of church and state.

For U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III, a conservative Bush appointee, the issue wasn't to hold another Scopes Monkey trial. That issue was long ago settled by federal courts that have held teaching the Biblical account of creation in public schools amounts to an establishment of religion and violates the First Amendment.

For Jones the issue was: Is intelligent design simply creationism? The parents and teachers argued it was a thinly veiled tactic to teach the Bible in schools as science.

Jones decided for the plaintiffs writing that intelligent design "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents."

How he reached that conclusion is what makes the film such compelling viewing, dramatized by the court re-enactments. There was even a "smoking gun" that plaintiff's attorneys uncovered during the trial that clinched their case. It makes for an ending twist as good as any scripted drama show. The piece does take some detours to revisit the theory of evolution - reminding viewers that, "it is one of the best-tested and most thoroughly confirmed theories in the history of science."

The Dover case, not surprisingly, tore apart the community. And this film doesn't ignore the personal drama profiling and bringing to life many of the major community politicians, parents and teachers making it more than a dry courtroom and scientific lecture.

Excellent show last night on the case of a Dover, PA school board trying to get intelligent design taught public shcool science class.

It was beautiful how the ID people painted themselves into corners with their psudeo-science.
The Christians repeatedly lying to try to get creationism taught in public schools. sweet irony.

I'm a monkey!