Darwiniana: blogzone

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http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/30bio.htm
Article reads: Forget the controversy over fuel from corn, sugarcane and wheat, here comes biofuel from grass to save the world from food crisis. In an effort to produce biofuel from a variety of elephant grass, Monsanto Co of Creve Coeur and Mendel Biotechnology Inc are joining hands.

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Article reads: Florida’s House and Senate have passed bills that would allow — or require — teachers to present alternate theories of how life evolved.
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npr
Article reads: The House bill is called the Evolution Academic Freedom Act. One of its sponsors, Republican state Rep. Alan Hays, says he has a question for its critics.
Article reads: “A […]

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Rather censorship is the marching order!
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FloridaToday
Article reads: Meantime, the public school teachers and college professors I’ve interviewed over the years would probably consider this legislation unnecessary, if not insulting. Conservative media and lawmakers keep portraying science educators either as liberal atheists or censored intellectuals in order to justify legislation like this. But the ones I […]

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http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=8239958
Article reads: BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Senate unanimously agreed to a bill that would let science teachers change the way they teach evolution, global warming and other topics in public school classrooms.

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NYT Science
Article reads: An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.
Here is another fine example of equivocation that oscillates between […]

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http://www.physorg.com/news128519463.html
Article reads: Enzymes regulating genetic expression can be just as important as the genome itself, increasing evidence shows. The expanding field of epigenetics focuses on the multiple influences on DNA and surrounding molecules that determine whether genes are turned on or off during development and disease processes.
Article reads: “This discovery broadens our view of […]

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YahooNews
Article reads: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blasted wealthy nations for their punitive agricultural tariffs and urged them Sunday to “stop your hypocrisy” and start buying Brazilian biofuel.
 
Article reads: “We have said that if we want to achieve success in the Doha Round (of World Trade Organization negotiations), then rich countries must lower […]

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Article reads: House members Friday took up the Senate’s “Evolution Academic Freedom Act” but approved an amendment that would significantly change it.
Article reads: That amendment would require science teachers to provide a “thorough presentation and scientific critical analysis” of the theory of evolution. House members are expected to vote on the revised bill next week […]

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WorldNetDaily
Article reads: In his 1971 book, “The Scientific Origins of National Socialism,” Dr. Daniel Gasman of John Jay College shows the “decisive” role that Haeckel played in the development of the German “Volkish” movement, a revival of pre-Christian German culture and spiritualism that found its eventual ecological outlet in the Holocaust.
Article reads: Haeckel had, in fact, […]

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saw the new errol morris (thin blue line, fog of war) documentary, standard operating procedure, last night.  it’s about abu ghraib. discussion of it would be interesting in this forum, if anyone sees it and feels inclined to comment.i had to walk out about half through, but that may be to the film’ credit, and […]

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