Below is an item from the TCC (teaching in Community Colleges) list. I thought
it would be of interest to (and brighten the day of) many Tipsters:
<<<<<The best critique I have seen I found yesterday at the _Chronicle_
website:
"Harvard University's science-humor magazine, the _Annals of Improbable
Research_, last week awarded its ninth annual Ig Nobel Prizes, a spoof on the
Nobel Prizes [. . . .] Genuine Nobel laureates were present at the ceremony in
Cambridge, Mass., to bestow prizes upon 11 people and 3 institutions for
achievements that 'cannot and should not be reproduced' in areas including
biology, chemistry, environmental protection, literature, managed health care,
medicine, peace, physics, and science education."
Among the winners was the Kansas Board of Education, which "received the
science-education prize for mandating that children should not believe in
Darwin's theory of evolution any more than they should believe in Newton's
theory of gravitation, Faraday's and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, or
Pasteur's theory that germs cause disease."
The full list of awards is available at www.chronicle.com/
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Rich Cummins
Dean of Communications Technology
Columbia Basin College>>>>>
Larry Dickerson
Selkirk College
Castlegar, BC Canada
