My Catholic school not only had very strong science courses, but the religion courses also focused on religions of the world. There was not enough philosophy, although one Christian brother managed to get the school to allow him to teach very basic logic.

Same experience. Catholic school, not a Catholic myself, my dad is a university prof in a STEM field so I grew up a big science nerd, and nothing I was taught at school contradicted solid science. Religion was taught in religion class, and science was taught in science class. They didn’t overlap. (And the Catholic…

It’s mostly white evangelicals.

I sure hope that Pew broke it down by denomination. Even though I’m a former Catholic, I went to a Catholic school and the science classes were not only solid, they were a year ahead of the public schools. And while the Catholic Church still takes it on the chin for Galileo, they have pretty much embraced modern…

Less scientists than US adults think Astronauts are essential for the future of the US Space program?

Oh, good to know. I’ll correct.

I didn’t know about it! It’s a big legion, and I’ve mainly been focused on super-local things in the last year, rather than legion-wide projects.

Please tell me Hanks plays the father with MS. Please. I would not be thrilled to find out she was playing Hanks love interest. Come on, no.

No, she has not.

You could’ve had fucking Jesus himself in that film and the entire film watching world would’ve still gone ‘well this is bollocks’.

It’s not really going to be a flashback, as Latour mentions Gwen will frequently hop over to the main Marvel universe to hang out with Miles and Peter.

Yeah, I admit this looks pissy devoid of its original context. These were originally responses to one of those Open Channel articles Ria posts almost every day, from about a month ago. This particular one was “What Do People Most Commonly Get Wrong About Your Job?” In other words, it was an open invitation to rant.…

So... a list of reasons from librarians of the many ways in which we are all wrong and the many reasons that we should all shut up.

Why do we need to? It does. Who made you Lord Commander of the Comments? It better add some serious gameplay advances if it is going to look like a 15 year old game.

Point is, the retro design is great, the geometric spaceships, the kitsch colors, awesome ideas, but that’d work with modern shaders and lightning!

Oh sure. But there was a helluva lot of cgi in JW than there was in JP.

Hold on, you’re telling me actors used to interact with actual props and not just a green screen? I don’t believe you.

I did a class on Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the obscenity trial, and the lecturer pointed out that none of the people who were prosecuting it as obscene picked up on an anal sex reference presumably because it wasn’t stated directly and you’d have to know what was being discussed to understand it.

The graphic novels in question, Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last Man Vol. 1, and The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House, are four of the ten graphic novels included in the course’s curriculum, and Shultz has complained about the nudity, sex, violence and torture contained in them.

For the past two years I’ve taught The Watchmen in my freshman composition course. While I’ve never had a student complain, I have had parents bitch to the bookstore about how comics aren’t books or that the violence of The Watchmen is inappropriate for college freshmen. It’s never gone any farther than that.

When I…