After Censorship of History Course, Colorado Students & Teachers Give a Lesson in Civil Disobedience (Democracy Now!)

A Theological Analysis of Ken Ham

By Gene Ogorodov

Early in February the Creation Museum hosted a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both of these people are notorious for their outspoken support for their own world view. Ken Ham has been the world's leading proponent of Intelligent Design for several decades, and in 2013 Nye sparked a firestorm among Christians in the US when he (rightly) compared Creationism to Astrology. Although falling far short of the sensationalism of either the Scope's Trial, or even Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover, once again America has demonstrated the indefatigably of bad ideas, with overwhelming popular appeal. Spontaneous creation of earth and all its "kinds" six to ten thousand years ago should have died in the mid 1850's, but alas one and half centuries later the proliferation of this stupidity, like our universe, is expanding ever faster.

Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham

Richard Sennett "The Decline of the Skills Society."

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why Science Literacy Matters (Moyers and Company)

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe (Moyers and Company)

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos (Moyers and Company)

Ben Ginsberg "The Fall of the Faculty: Governing Universities in the 21st Century"

Ben Ginsberg is a Professor at John's Hopkins whose book The Fall of the Faculty (published in 2011 by OUP) details the corporatization of the American University system and the subsequent disenfranchisement of professional scholars. In the not to distant past the faculty of a College was the College. That era is over. Now professors are paid employees that provide students with a feel good service that gives the "right image" that administrators want. No longer is education about teaching; it has become an overpriced overly bureaucratic playground that manufactures credentials and perpetuates a culture of administration for administration. He shows how skyrocketing costs, fewer tenure positions, and even the fiscal irresponsibility of current paradigms on education can trace their roots to the growth of a paradisaical administrative class that is threatening to  consume the whole system. This is a must read for anyone interested in education. This  book can be found at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Noam Chomsky (July, 2013) "The Corporatization of the University"