Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Would You Rather Live in Eden (continued)?
In my last post, I talked about the Paleolithic, the “Old Stone Age” of human evolution, which lasted from 2 million to 10,000 years ago, when everything started getting complicated. In “Science and Technology in World History,” my Stevens colleagues Jim McClellan and Harold Dorn call the Paleolithic era “Eden.” I asked students in my [...]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Wired For War: Peter W. Singer
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Would You Rather Live in Eden Than Today?
I like asking my Stevens students questions to which I have no definite answers.
For example, this fall, for the first time, I’m teaching HHS130, History of Science and Technology. Our text is “Science and Technology in World History,” written by my two Stevens pals Jim McClellan and Harold Dorn, who are historians. Early in their [...]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Bloggingheads Teaches Another Controversy
Back in April 2008, I told my Bloggingheads buddy George Johnson that when it came to creationism and other religious claptrap, I believe in “teaching the controversy,” both as a college professor and a journalist. I made this point in a discussion of Ben Stein’s anti-Darwin mockumentary Expelled. Some science-minded critics deplored any attention given [...]