http://www.flcfs.org/wp Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:48:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ladies and gentlemen, we have packed our bags and moved to new digs over at www.flascience.org. We have a general website and a new blog over there now open for business. Please change all general links you may have for Florida Citizens for Science to the new location. This old blog will ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=287 Uneducated kids imperil state growth, report says A generation of poorly educated children unlikely to get college degrees threatens Florida's ability to create a competitive work force and may weaken the state's economy, a new report being released today says. Many Florida students are not academically prepared for college, most will not ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=286 Scientists dig bugs to help lakes' health TAVARES -- Like a fortune-teller poring over leaves in a tea cup, Sandi Hanlon-Breuer studies the worms and insect larvae living in the bottom of lakes to see the future. The Lake County Water Authority biologist has a giant collection of creepy-crawlers she has culled ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=285 Here's a good story that shows the fight to defend science happens in places beside the classroom and politics. The vast majority of scientists agree that intelligent design (ID) — the belief that the complexity of life is evidence that something intelligent must have designed it — is not a scientific ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=284 Here's an interesting opinion piece that ran in a Naples paper. It mentions some other article supposedly published in the same paper about an opposing view, but I couldn't find that other piece. http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=283 It turns out that even the simplest of experiments and science classroom projects can be dangerous in some way. A few months back, the fifth-graders at Franklin's Jefferson Elementary contracted salmonella, a nasty bacterial infection, from owl pellets, grayish, hardened clumps of regurgitated material that students dissect to figure out what ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=282 Research on the manatee shows that it's no dummy. I especially loved the part about not liking fish and so being hard to motivate. Does that make them smarter than dolphins since they can't be bribed so easily? The manatee, sluggish, squinty-eyed and bewhiskered, is more likely to have its rotund ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=281 FlCfS board member Pete Dunkelburg submitted this for posting here. Creationism Now A new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (PIGDID) provides a very good catalog of current creationist arguments. The author, Jonathan Wells, is a Discovery Institute (DI) Fellow who has dedicated his life to destroying Darwinism. ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=280 The West Palm Beach library is offereing science seminars for kids. West Palm Beach· The building blocks of science were laid out on the table. Baking soda, vinegar, a two-liter soda bottle, apple juice and Alka-Seltzer tablets. A half-dozen children gathered around in wide-eyed anticipation. "Everything in your life is science," ocean ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=279 I just love how newspaper stories about the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf play up the whole personification of the solar system thing. It's as if there is some seismic shift in planet hierarchy and the planets' feelings have been hurt. It's just silly. Anyway, I do like how ... http://www.flcfs.org/wp/?p=278