The one pre-recorded program that I’m planning to record for use in teaching is The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli, scheduled for 5:00am Monday morning
Entries from September 2006
Book TV: Travels of a T-Shirt, and National Book Festival
September 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: BookTV · Social Studies · blog
Wikipedia, ID-creationism, and “banned books”
September 28th, 2006 · No Comments
How to stop insertion of ID-creationist bias into Wikipedia articles. Also links, including a Casey Luskin post complaining about an anti-ID bias in the science articles (!)
Tags: Evolution · blog · media
UK anti-evolutionists seek to lure parents with new website
September 25th, 2006 · No Comments
see http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060925evolut.shtml
racist revisionism in MD politics
September 24th, 2006 · No Comments
At People For the American Way, the Right Wing Watch project reports on the radio ad in Maryland which was ‘apparently intended to boost the Senate candidacy of Michael Steele, [by urging] African Americans to stop voting for Democrats, because, among other things, “Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws” and “Democrats started the [...]
Tags: Social Studies · blog
Florida law: history is fact–not constructed
September 24th, 2006 · No Comments
I have recently received requests from a couple people who want to make this available to their students but were not able to retrieve it from my earlier post on their list. So here it is again in a more permanently accessible location.
Tags: Law & Policy · Social Studies
six literal days
September 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Can somebody help me understand what this could mean? What is a literal “day,” or a literal “hour,” before the sun exists? It’s fine with me if they want construe “day” in some way other than the time it takes for earth to rotate on its axis, but in that case what do they mean by “literal”?