Mozilla 0.9.9, get it.
I’m always a sucker for a story on the teaching of evolution, because I think it’s a subject that’s a touchstone for a lot of the general anti-rational feeling that’s pervasive in society. The Ohio State Board of Education is coming up with a new curriculum, and proponents of “intelligent design” are demanding that it be given equal footing with natural selection. Never mind that this is a science curriculum, and that intelligent design is superstition, not science. It’s depressing to see how many people don’t understand the scientific method or its value in this day and age. This basic formula for scientific inquiry is the basis for most of the positive aspects of our modern lifestyle, and yet the majority of people don’t even understand what it’s about.
A reader in Israel sent along this link to an op-ed by Ishai Menuchin, an IDF reserve officer who refuses to serve in the occupied territories.
New York Times staff editorial: America as Nuclear Rogue
Andrew Leonard has a review of Mozilla 0.9.8 up at Salon.
National Geographic somehow found the Afghan girl whose striking portrait became the most famous cover photo in the history of the magazine 17 years ago. She returns to the cover for the April issue. Amazing.
National Geographic has the story on how she was located.