"Is Intelligent Design Science?"
National Geographic interview with Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome
project and a Christian, from February 2007:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0702/voices.html
Homepage for Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author of the current
bestseller, "The God Delusion":
http://richarddawkins.net/home
Is spiritual belief an evolutionary adaptation? Sunday NY Times Magazine article, "Darwin's
God":
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?ei=5090&en=43cfb46824423cea&ex=1330664400
Related topics:
Is science always certain? A 2005 NY Times article by Brian Greene, professor
of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, about the
Uncertainty Principle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/opinion/08greene.html?ex=1270612800&en=c87d6bab356df279&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle explained, from the web site of the American
Institute of Physics:
http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm
Sunday NY Times Magazine article about "Dark Energy":
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11dark.t.html?ex=1331182800&en=95ca4e035aa630cc&ei=5124
"Are Human Beings Rational?"
Yale University study about "loss aversion" that biases the choices primates
make:
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=4629
Are markets rational? An article about the work of economist John Kenneth
Galbraith from the Christian Science Monitor (2006):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1228/p09s02-coop.html
Related topic:
Animation featuring Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, that illustrates
the difficulty of comprehending large numbers in making decisions:
http://www.truemajority.org/oreos/
"Gender Roles from a Scientific Viewpoint"
NY Times article about women in science:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/science/19women.html?ex=1324184400&en=b477e30131a2ccdc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Research about the genetic basis for gender differences:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/health/10gene.html?th&emc=th
"The Net Generation"
A book about the Net Generation, published by Educause:
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=5989&bhcp=1
Study about the Net Generation's self-image:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0302/p01s01-ussc.html
Chronicle of Higher Education article, "The Net Gen Goes To College":
http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i07/07a03401.htm
A PBS documentary about the influence of mass media:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
Christian Science Monitor article, "We Swim in an Ocean of Media":
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p13s01-lihc.html
From The Journal of Adolescence, "The effects of violent video game habits
on adolescent hostility, aggressive behaviors, and school performance":
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/FACULTY/dgentile/Gentile_Lynch_Linder_Walsh_2004.pdf
Article about cyber bullying on YouTube:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/nyregion/13video.html?ex=1176609600&en=a0ff29bf15b201e9&ei=5070
Report card for America's high schools in 2005 (the National Assessment of
Educational Progress):
http://www.edukey.net/2007/02/28/a-bad-report-card/
The Net Generation's own views, from the graduating class of 2007 on the NY Times Blog:
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/amathias/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/awilson/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/jmoser/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/merler/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/mkurzweil/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/tmitchell/
http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/author/tgraf/