PZ Myers. 2005 Feb 25. Cafe Scientifique ala Morris. <http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/cafe_scientifique_ala_morris/>. Accessed 2008 Dec 01.
Posted on M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr on Friday, February 25, 2005
Cafe Scientifique ala Morris
It looks like the site has been up and down and flaky and sluggish all day long—sorry about that, I've been out of town and haven't been able to patch things up to work more smoothly. I'll be tearing stuff out and simplifying this weekend to try and make it all a bit more robust.
Anyway, the reason I've been away was to attend an organizational meeting at the Bell Museum on the Twin Cities campus. I have a new tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge: we're going to be implementing the Cafe Scientifique here in Morris, and I'm going to be the local coordinator. They've been doing this at the UMTC campus for a while now, and are looking to expand to the various branch campuses, and I was quick to volunteer. Today we were getting suggestions on how to organize and put together these public discussions of science; now I just have to recruit a few students to help out, line up a venue and some speakers, and put together a monthly show. Oh, boy!
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Hey, great stuff PZ. Pulling science out in public and pulling students in sounds like a neat project.
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Looks like they're doing it at my school too, but the list of speakers for this semester looks a bit social-science (yeah, I'm a hard-science snob who could use a bit of culture).
They're part of CafeScientifique, but it's more "research" than "science." - Wow that sounds like a good idea.
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Any time you figure that the audience needs to be told more about dolphin biosonar sound production than they want to know, you know where to find me.
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Speaking of great stuff, here's another spendid post from Carl Zimmer's weblog The Loom about the evolution of language:
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/02/25/building_gab_part_one.php#: Posted by on 02/25 at 11:16 PM -
PZ, it appears the
nuttersgodwhacksnice conservative Christians are combing through your site to find things for which they can express their righteous shock and horror, and have so far made it back to the Jan. 9 post about "Scripture Scrubs."
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/ow_my_eyes/
A nice lady named Kristina has posted her ultimate aghastness at this evil liberal effort to destroy all things good:
"Amazing! This is what the world has come too- Lord forbid someone might actually show a ray of faith...?!?!?!" etc., etc., etc., all in the same overheated vein -- the seeming main point of which is that we evil totalitarian atheists, in our booted billions, are crushing the spiritual life out of the poor, downtrodden, pitifully-few Christians, heartlessly refusing to hear their cries for the equal rights which are the birthright of every good Christian American.
I count 37 exclamation marks in 5 paragraphs of comment.
What I really hate about certain religious people is not the illogic, not the dull, sheeplike mentality, not the slick deceptiveness, not the merciless ongoing assault on the rights of everybody else, couched in shrill complaint about how the unjust world treats poor little THEM.
No, what I really hate is that they're thoughtlessly using up the world's supply of punctuation. Because of them, some day all the printed matter in the world will consist of run-on sentences.