In high school policy debate, we teach students to prove that there is a significant problem, to demonstrate the harms that problem causes, to show that the status quo cannot solve that problem, and to propose and defend a plan…
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Agriculture Secretary Walt Bones is boosting the state's propaganda effort to force local governments into line with the state's "Get Big or Get Out" ag-industrial policy. For years, South Dakota has given preferential treatment to massive concentrated animal feeding operations.…
An eager reader shares Florida scientist and science popularizer Rob Krampf's discussion of errors in the Science FCAT, a standardized test administered to all Florida fifth and eighth graders. The FCAT is high-stakes testing of the sort that South Dakota…
Here's a round-up of research not being conducted at a South Dakota university run by Monsanto executive board member David Chicoine: Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup damages mouth cells and DNA: To reflect occupational exposure, human buccal epithelial cells were exposed…
I have in my hands a copy of the 2012 Interim Study Survey, a list of 20 policy topics proposed by various legislators and their committees for scrutiny and discussion over the summer. (Remember: legislators, like teachers, don't really get…
The 1950s must have been an exciting time to be alive. Asimov and Heinlein were leading a golden age of science fiction. The new magic of television set homes aglow with technological wonder. And in South Dakota, the Legislature declared…
...however, constant anti-abortion activism might.... Last September, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court issued a mostly bad ruling on South Dakota's 2005 anti-abortion law. The only bright spot was the Court's rejection of South Dakota's attempt to force…
Dr. Newquist provides a thorough account of the National Science Foundation's withdrawal of funding from the science lab South Dakota is trying to develop in the old Homestake Mine in Lead. The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory may not…