Carnival of the Africans #12
Michael Meadon recently hosted the 12th Carnival of the Africans at Ionian Enchantment, and there are a number of pieces worth a look, and blogs worth supporting. Three posts that I’d recommend are Mike’s on the disturbingly common habit humans have of engaging in post-hoc reasoning with regard to medicine and the immune system, Tim [...]
Passing the buck
Part of my routine, accompanying the second cup of coffee, is my morning browse through the 100 or so items that have accumulated in Google Reader overnight. As any of you who use it would know, it’s a very useful way to stay on top of peripheral interest areas, so long as you keep a [...]
Moral clarity and the threat of the NILC
Today’s edition of the Mail and Guardian carries a disturbing article about the growing influence of religious groups – in particular Ray McCauley’s National Interfaith Leadership Council – on South Africa’s Government. Ever since the unlikely figure of Jacob Zuma launched the Moral Regeneration Movement, thinking South Africans should have been concerned about how much [...]
Irate offenders (or, inversions of the natural order)
I had my first foot on the crossing, and as I moved my other leg (plus attached foot) towards the “planted on crossing” position, a young woman in a blue Fiat Uno sped up to get across the crossing before I could impede her progress. So I kicked her car.
Now, I was not wearing my steel-capped boots, and I didn’t kick her car with any force. So there was no issue of an assault on her car, or of any damage to same. The force was just enough that she’d hear a sound and notice, as I was pissed off at her opportunism and her endangerment of our safety. She also of course violated the law, but I was less concerned about that issue. Her momentum (and the cars behind her) carried her out of earshot, so I have no idea if she had any words of advice to offer me.
Bad educations, bad science, bad students…
Regardless of the role religion may play in our dumbing-down, for whatever reason our students certainly arrive at university unprepared for “higher learning”.
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