The brave ACLU clients involved in this 21st Century version of the Scopes Trial are making a difference not just in their communities, but are influencing a nationwide debate that is about more than just science education – it is about the role of religion on our society and our government.
Day: October 20, 2005
"Mission Accomplished" Dept.
Quake ‘is UN’s worst nightmare’
Fiddling-While-Rome-Burns Dept.
…Take the Inuit word for June, qiqsuqqaqtuq. It refers to snow conditions, a strong crust at night. Only those traits now appear in May. Shari Gearheard, a climate researcher from Harvard, recalled the appeal of an Inuit hunter, James Qillaq, for a new word at a recent meeting in Canada.
One sentence stayed in her mind: “June isn’t really June any more.” ” (New York Times )
And: Bird flu has taken another human life. A Thai man is the 67th victim as the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus crawls from Asia to Europe and toward Africa. More ominous yet, an Indonesian cluster of infection in the same family suggest the possibility that the feared mutation allowing human-to-human transmission, the precondition for the pandemic, has occurred. This Reuters piece is a good summary of the current epidemiological status of the viral threat.
Astrologer Predicts Own Death
Kunjilal Malviya, 75, who lives in Sehara village, about 125 miles south of state capital Bhopal, was meditating in his house after announcing he would die on Thursday.” (Reuters)
Update: He’s still here. (Reuters)