Jeffrey McManus

Link: Official Leaves Post as Texas Prepares to Debate Science Education Standards
A Texas school administrator was forced out of her job after forwarding on some email links pertaining to the teaching of evolution. The puzzling thing about this is that the evolution curriculum is codified into Texas law (at least for the moment), which means [...]

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Link: Toy Fair ‘07: Is it cool to like science now?
"Just think about it: maybe the apparent lapse in American kids’ interest in science and engineering could be reversed by the popularity of online videos depicting wacky prank-experiments where kids blow things up, rewire gadgets and ‘pimp out’ vehicles. Clearly, science doesn’t have to be [...]

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Link: Anousheh Ansari – Wikipedia
Anousheh Ansari is set to become the first female Muslim in space, first Iranian-born person in space, and the first female space tourist on September 18, 2006. Along with her brother-in-law Amir Ansari, she made a multi-million dollar contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of [...]

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Link: Wired News: What, Exactly, Is a Planet?.
Among the possibilities at the 12-day meeting of the International Astronomical Union in the Czech Republic capital: Subtract Pluto or christen one more planet, and possibly dozens more.
But the decision won’t be an easy one. Scientists attending the conference are split over whether Pluto should be excluded from [...]

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From Slashdot: Got a payload you’d like to shoot into space? These dudes are auctioning a microsatellite launch on eBay. Opening bid, $250,000, pre-approved bidders only, so no fair putting your baby brother into orbit.

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