{"id":1707,"date":"2012-10-08T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2012-10-08T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T01:47:50","slug":"10-8-12-this-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"10.8.12 This & That"},"content":{"rendered":"

— Yup, I know. U.S. Representative from Georgia Paul Broun is on a science committee and yet denies basic science: “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” he said. But did you know that he’s among like minds on that committee? Paul Broun’s not the only GOP member of the House Science Committee who’s a bit iffy on the whole science thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Well, I guess that the Nobel Prize itself comes from hell: The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— And some good news here in Florida: Future physicists in 7th, 8th and 9th grade tapped for new program, to get encouragement from profs at FSU, other schools<\/a>. And here is the Future Physicists of Florida<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Yup, I know. U.S. Representative from Georgia Paul Broun is on a science committee and yet denies basic science: “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-rx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=58","url_meta":{"origin":1707,"position":0},"title":"Nobels are great, but what about education?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So, America has dominated this year's Nobel prizes. Outstanding. But there is also warranted concern over the future, and I'm glad this article focused on that. The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":161,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=161","url_meta":{"origin":1707,"position":1},"title":"Florida math-science education research","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We here at Florida Citizens for Science have been following this fairly closely. We were actually rooting for another university to get the one year grant, but you certainly can't always win when politics are involved. 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