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19 Nov

An Open Letter to John McCain regarding Planetaria and Science Education [A Vote For Science]

An Open Letter to John McCain regarding Planetaria and Science Education [A Vote For Science]

An Overhead Projector I was recently contacted by Glen Gould, a reader who is also a relative regarding the repeated mention by Republican Candidate John McCain of the "Overhead Projector" earmark for a planetarium in Chicago. Glen, together with my sister, Bunny Laden, are very se...

Bury ScienceBlogs October 20

In praise of planetariums (and Laser Floyd) [The Island of Doubt]

I was going to post a rant about John McCain's dishonest reference to Barack Obama's "overhead projector" earmark in Tuesday's presidential debate, but Joe Romm beat me to it. Again. So let me just say this about planetariums (planetaria?) instead: Read the rest of this post... | Read...

Bury ScienceBlogs October 09

Phil Plait: Why does John McCain hate planetariums?

[Note: this is a shortened version of what I wrote on my own blog. Feel free to drop by there for a longer rant.] As an astronomer and educator, I had a slap-in-the-face moment last month when I read that John McCain called funding planetariums (in the biz we call them planetaria) "foolishn...

Bury HuffingtonPost.com October 09

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