Day 63: Science in Texas not out of the woods yet

Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.”
I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to me [...]

Day 61: Meteorites, a volcano, Colbert, Creationism in Texas and my deepest sympathies …

Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60.
Day 60 is dead to me. 
On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I felt awful. [...]