{"id":652,"date":"2008-07-16T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:40:23","slug":"interesting-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Interesting stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting links are showing up in discussions among the Florida Citizens for Science members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zcBs0ZxQ9VY\">This video<\/a> is a lecture on intelligent design by Dr. Greg Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Science Friday had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/program\/archives\/200806135\">Ken Miller as a guest<\/a>, and he discussed the efforts to push so-called &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; into public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a section of a site stuffed with educational materials. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/120878\/\">Evolution: Education and Outreach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reason Online has a new article up concerning a debate entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/127549.html\">Is There Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design in Nature<\/a>? You do believe in super-intelligent purple space squids, right?<\/p>\n<p>All of the above should keep y&#8217;all busy for a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting links are showing up in discussions among the Florida Citizens for Science members. This video is a lecture on intelligent design by Dr. Greg Forbes. Science Friday had Ken Miller as a guest, and he discussed the efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-aw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":204,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=204","url_meta":{"origin":652,"position":0},"title":"Opening a can of worms","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe they have their hearts in the right place, but I think Florida lawmakers are opening a can of worms with new legislation that will allow \"high performing\" school districts to cut loose of many state controls. 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