Posted on August 29, 2013 by Michael
My job is in making math and science textbooks available to blind students, so basically they get the ever-so-great honor of learning from how I choose to interpret and present the material. Right now I’m working on an engineering mechanics dynamics book. It’s a lot of pre-calc and physics, but in a relatively difficult context; I certainly wouldn’t want to take a course on this stuff, even with my ability to see all the diagrams and examples, so I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to do this stuff while blind.
I know this isn’t interesting to anyone else, but I find it incredibly impressive that there are blind students who are able to master this stuff.
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Posted on August 22, 2013 by Michael
Acknowledging sexism towards men is not the same as dismissing or minimizing sexism towards women.
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Posted on August 17, 2013 by Michael
Radio talk show host and author Howie Carr is doing a book signing about 15 feet from me right now. Looks like someone may be getting an Atheists of Maine business card…
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Posted on August 10, 2013 by Michael
What new information has religion ever revealed to the world? I don’t mean what information have the religious revealed. I want to know what information or discovery is now known because of religion.
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Posted on August 3, 2013 by Michael
The NSA is perpetrating the most offensive abuse and violation of civil liberties in the United States since at least Japanese internment camps – and perhaps since slavery.
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Posted on July 28, 2013 by Michael
“Government doesn’t create jobs!”
~said no one standing on the Hoover Dam, driving on the Interstate, using most any bridge, or using any other fundamental piece of national infrastructure
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Posted on July 20, 2013 by Michael
One of the things that makes our country weaker is that we allow states that wish to undermine the teaching of evolution. We can’t expect to have a strong, scientific nation if we keep acting like science is an opinion-based discipline.
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Posted on July 5, 2013 by Michael
Faith is the exact opposite of knowledge.
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Posted on June 25, 2013 by Michael
Well, I think Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals deserved to go to the Bruins, not because I’m a fan, but because they played a far, far better game (minus one 20 second span). It seems wrong that this series didn’t go 7, but it was still a good season.
Besides, we can all take solace in the fact that the Penguins didn’t get further than they did, which would have given NBC and ESPN a chance to masturbate over them at every possible chance.
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Posted on June 4, 2013 by Michael
The Supreme Court has just ruled that police have the right to obtain DNA from those they arrest. Apparently it’s a reasonable booking procedure used to identify a suspect. Even though the identification can take weeks. And it almost always will pertain to some other crime for which the police otherwise do not have any reasonable suspicion. And it gives them access to what is normally protected medical information.
Somehow, I don’t think if the founding fathers were around today that they would be in favor of the government having access to a private citizen’s DNA without probably cause, a warrant, or a conviction.
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For the Sake of Science 