© Frank H. Jump
Science Education
Evolution Under Siege In Florida
As the Florida state board of education prepared to consider a final draft of a new set of state science standards, Floridians offered their opinions at a last-minute meeting held in Orlando on February 11, 2008. Over eighty speakers addressed the state commissioner of education, Eric Smith, and, via webcast, the board. A video of the entire meeting is available on the department’s website. As the Orlando Sentinel (February 12, 2008) reported, “They came from one end of Florida to the other, and with views on evolution as far apart as the 800 miles that separate the Keys from the Panhandle.” Observers estimated that there were about twice as many speakers opposing the treatment of evolution in the new standards as there were speakers who applauded it. – National Center for Science Education
Life On Mars – Rodin – NASA – Bowie – Streisand? – Nothing Beats the Original
NASA Pic – UK Register Coverage
Looks more like “art” on Mars.
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David Bowie – Life On Mars?
After all these years I’ve finally come to realize all the make-up was to distract you from his horrible teeth! Still a brilliant song after all these years.
Life on Mars? Hunky Dory 1971 (David Bowie)
It’s a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair
But her mummy is yelling, “No!”
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is no where to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a sadd’ning bore
For she’s lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man!
Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a sadd’ning bore
‘Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man!
Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
By far, the worst remake of Life On Mars – is Barbra Streisand’s version on Butterfly 1974- which is also one of the worst album covers. Uninspired and misdirected, it’s not even butter- it’s margarine! And not even FLIES will eat that! Neither will life on Mars. I won’t buy either of them.
Deer Caught in the Quantum Wobble
Silly electrons, protons & photons
Frilly leptons, muons, quarks & bosons
Weave a tapestry in quantum wobble
Cloaked as wiggling strings in a Planck length cloth
Squabbling in & out some willy nilly
Lead me to believe I see deer grazing
In a cool nocturnal panorama
Silly foraging alpine white-tailed deer
Is it really me you see, smell & hear?
Or trillion charcoal black carbon copies
Floating on a roiling foamy space-time
Perhaps in unison in subspace rhyme
Or cacophonic contrapuntal screams
Falling in & out of the quantum seams
© Frank H. Jump
More on Quantum Wobble
1-in-75 Chance of an Asteroid Collision with Mars, Moon Formation Theories & More Cometary Commentary
Moon Origins & Formation Theories
Link to PBS Quicktime Moon Movie
View of Coma of Comet Wild 2 and other cometary commentary.
In a violent and unpredictable solar system, perhaps another celestial collision for our viewing pleasure.