Daily Shizu (neither a daily, nor a shizu)

The director of education at the Royal Society says that creationism should be taught in school alongside evolution and the big bang. Professor Michael Reiss says it's been his experience that in giving the impression students' beliefs are wrong they are unlikely to learn much about the science that one really wants them to learn. He suggests including creationism in the discussion of theories of the universe presented as a cultural world view. I still say it's turtles all the way down.

The American Museum of the Moving Image has put together a web site called The Living Room Candidate, which is a repository of US campaign ads right back to 1952. A great companion for keeping up with the truth and lies of the presidential campaigns is FactCheck.

I liked Charlie Kaufman after seeing a movie he wrote called Being John Malkovich, and even purchased a movie-script of his (when I went through a movie-script phase) for the movie Adaptation. Now he's directed a movie, called Synecdoche, New York. He was interviewed in the CBC offices in Toronto to promote his movie in the TIFF. (A cool word used in the interview: synecdoche is a literary term that means "a part standing for the whole.")

Another problem with fertilizer and assorted run-off from farms and such: algae blooms in lakes that have become "nutrient-rich" now have toxic water that isn't cleaned even by boiling. This is happening in the communities around Prince George, and residents have been issued an advisory to avoid drinking or bathing in their tap water, if it is drawn from lakes.

Here are ten things you don't know about the Earth. The one tidbit my mind caught: there are at least five different objects we could call a "moon" of Earth... sort of...

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (A song by Mr. Yankovic done in palindromes.)