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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

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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 (!)

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see http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060925evolut.shtml

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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 [...]

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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”?

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Religious critics of evolution have trained their sights on one of the world’s pre-eminent fossil exhibits — Louis and Richard Leakey’s extensive skeletal collections illuminating the origins of man.

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