Program Notes: New York Times on the Hardest Job in Science…
Or at least in the top ten: Check out this story on someone who sounds like a fantastic teacher of high school biology in Florida, doing his best to put evolution all the way back into the curriculum.
I’ve no doubt that the science blogosphere will pick up on this piece, and it should. But as someone who has taken a fair share of potshots at the Times and some of its writers lately, I thought it was dead down the middle of the “credit where credit is due” imperative to note that the paper and reporter Amy Harmon did a fine job here.
Image: Henri Rousseau, “Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo” 1908. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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August 24, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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August 24, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Yeah, good story. My old high school in the Bible Belt still avoids evolution like an antibiotic-resistant bacterium.
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