Posted on December 11th, 2012 by gpazymino
New England Science Public Reaches The Community Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2012 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “…New England Science Public will sponsor simultaneous events across institutions to celebrate iconic scientific achievements, their relevance and value in modern society. Via the NE-Science Public Reports, the initiative will publicize meta-data documents [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2012 by gpazymino
Mauna Kea Telescopes To Sink in The Pacific – Hawaii [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2012 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “…before the Dim End, all land telescopes will wear off and turn obsolete and… orbiting-the-planet observatories will likely replace them. Eventually, the [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2012 by gpazymino
On the Wrongly Called “The God Particle” [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2012 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth [A book-review format of this article is available at Amazon.com] “…without mass, no atoms would exist, no galaxies or stars, no solar systems or planets [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2012 by gpazymino
Massachusetts Gets an A- in Science Standards [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2012 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Massachusetts just got an A- on The State of State Science Standards, a 2012 report released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Although “The Bay [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2012 by gpazymino
Rejection of science threatens to be epidemic [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2012 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “…There is a civic duty all citizens can exert to rectify the politics obscuring education: Cast our votes for candidates who sponsor proper schooling and [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2011 by gpazymino
United States ‘exceptionalism’ built on backs of the 99 percent [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “A sense of inner exceptional nature probably drives the existence of most individuals and seems to be a Darwinian adaptive trait. [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2011 by gpazymino
Hayden Planetarium carries standard of scientific study [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Science is just a refined device for resolving ordinary curiosity and a powerful liberator of superstition. It is the subsistence kit to defeat re-emerging [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2011 by gpazymino
Harold Camping wrong at forecasting “Biblical End” [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Scripture is a silly source of insight to forecast the end of the world. But science helps us hypothesize more fascinating phenomena than the [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by gpazymino
All History is Black History [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Illustration by JH Matternes, click on image to access more of artist’s fantastic work An African American blogger just settled an online dispute over human [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2011 by gpazymino
Why Accepting Evolution Matters …New England professors accept evolution, but they are religious… [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth People do not “believe” in evolution; we either accept it, or doubt about it, or reject it. But [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2010 by gpazymino
Can We Forecast the Fall of Today’s Empires? [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2010 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth History reminds us that empires can supplant one another… The Inca Empire (1430s-1530s) relied on an ingenious system of numeric recording, the quipus, [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2010 by gpazymino
Can Atheists Be Our Leaders? [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2010 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth atheistsand agnostics are among the most educated citizens in the United States. They rank highest not only in knowledge about science, American history, literature, politics and [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2010 by gpazymino
On Whales and a Whaling Museum [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2010 Department of Biology, Univesity of Massachusetts Dartmouth To be reassured that evolution is true one just needs to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Three mounted skeletons of a 50-foot North Atlantic [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2010 by gpazymino
Faith Healing vs. Medical Science [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2010 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “If a sense of disease produces suffering, and a sense of ease antidotes it, disease is mental. Hence the fact in Christian Science that the human [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2010 by gpazymino
To Deny Evolution is To Deny History [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2010 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth History is evolution and evolution is history. Charles Darwin (photo © left G. Paz-y-Miño C. 2010, British Museum of Natural History, London) felt enthralled when [...]
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