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  • So You Want to Overthrow the State: Ten Questions for Aspiring Revolutionaries

    09/15/2020 7:34:24 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 11 replies
    9. What will I do with people who aren’t willing to go along with my revolution? Walter Williams once said that he doesn’t mind if communists want to be communists. He minds that they want him to be a communist, too. Would you allow people to try capitalist experiments in your socialist paradise? Or socialist experiments in your capitalist paradise (Families, incidentally, are socialist enterprises that run by the principle “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”)? Am I willing to allow dissenters to advocate my overthrow, or do I need to crush dissent and...
  • Kansas University's course about Intelligent Design designed to mock Christian fundamentalists

    11/25/2005 2:12:03 PM PST · by TheDotte · 13 replies · 872+ views
    Lawrence Journal-World ^ | November 24, 2005 | Sophia Maines
    In a recent message on a Yahoo listserv — a venue where groups of people post questions and comments on a particular topic — Paul Mirecki, chairman of KU’s department of religious studies, described his upcoming course “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and other Religious Mythologies.” “The fundies want it all taught in a science class, but this will be a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching it as a religious studies class under the category ‘mythology,’” Mirecki wrote. He signed the note “Doing my part (to upset) the religious right, Evil Dr. P.”
  • Professor to describe 'uncanny physics of comic book superheroes'

    02/16/2004 9:07:30 AM PST · by AdmSmith · 131 replies · 1,115+ views
    University of Minnesota ^ | 15-Feb-2004 | Press release
    MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation of momentum by calculating the force of Spider-Man's web when it snagged the superhero's girlfriend as she plummeted from a great height. Kakalios will describe a freshman seminar class he teaches, "Physics of Comic Books," at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle. His talk is part of the symposium "Pop Physics: The...