Thoughts from Kansas
You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more. --Mark Twain
Search
Profile
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
The opinions expressed here are his own, do not reflect the official position of the NCSE. Indeed, older posts may no longer reflect his own official position.
Sb/DonorsChoose Drive
Thanks!
Recent Posts
- Want
- The man behind the myth: Tony's KC
- Islamophobia and its malcontents
- One of these things…
- Reason 5,293,508,690 why you shouldn't let your friends vote Republican
- Simple answer to stupid questions: Cothran and Beckwith edition
- Geoengineering and the ocean
- Does "purely natural and materialistic" imply "unguided and purposeless"?
- Dept. of Justice: DOMA is unconstitutional
Recent Comments
- Anthony McCarthy on Want
- Apuleius Platonicus on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- Bob Day on Montana legislature thinks global warming is a good thing
- J-Dog on One of these things…
- dubliner on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- apuleius Platonicus on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- Anthony McCarthy on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- razib on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- razib on Islamophobia and its malcontents
- Achemaenid on Wisconsin, Libya, Bahrain
Archives
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- August 2004
Accolades
Good posts from history
The Birth of Intelligent Falling
A failure of Intelligent Design
Why it's called Intelligent Design Creationism
Support TfK
Buy me things from my Amazon.com wishlist.
Buy yourself things!
Add yourself to the Frappr map!
About
Josh Rosenau works for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, CA. He is a Public Information Project Director, working to make sure science education is accurate, especially regarding the teaching of evolution.
Until the summer of 2007, he was a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, and he is currently completing his dissertation. His research focuses on the role of competition in the geographic ranges of species, especially mammals.
In Kansas, he learned, among other things, that biology is political science. So long as that's true, his coverage of politics will be right next to the coverage of the latest scientific discoveries.
Rosenau spends his days doing science, and blogging is a release and a way to be more than just a scientist. You'll find results from ecology and his immediate scientific field, but probably more politics, art, philosophy, science policy and interesting results from other areas of science than you might expect.
For the record, Rosenau is not originally from Kansas. He lived there for seven fascinating years, and that time had a huge impact on his thoughts. However, he was born in Chicago, with a childhood spent mostly in the New York City area. Being a liberal Jewish Kansan gives a different perspective than being a liberal Jewish New Yorker, let alone a liberal from the Bay area.
The thoughts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the opinions or policy of the National Center for Science Education. The material here is written on Josh Rosenau's own time for his own reasons. Anything discussion of topics NCSE is working on should not be taken as an official comment, those can be found at the NCSE's website. In particular, the NCSE does not speak out on elections, but in my free time, I do.
Comment Policy
Comments are property of their respective authors. Management reserves the right to edit comments, to remove comments, to ban commenters, and to take other actions deemed necessary. Management is not responsible for the factual basis of any comment, let alone the opinions expressed in them.
