
Superb image of an airliner streaking across the sun's view during a solar flare, taken by amateur astronomer Jan Koeman from the Netherlands.
From today's NASA news....
Reports and commentary on the news, science, publishing, and the creative ends of the media by author John Farrell.
But the judge disagreed: “While evolution is subject to criticism, particularly with respect to the mechanism by which it occurred, the sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community.”Read more.
And yet the truth is I rather like this annual Christmas controversy. For one thing it helps to debunk one of the more absurd myths about America that the rest of the world clings to — that it is firmly in the grip of some theocracy in which schoolchildren learn creationism by rote and White House officials slaughter the fatted calf before drawing up their foreign policy plans.Read more.