The story about National Science Teachers of America refusing the "Inconvenient Truth" DVDs is not as black & white as previously reported. Sandra Porter has a good run-down.
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After recent posts related to intellectual property and more than I can count about bird flu, time to become more efficient and combine them:
Methylene blue is a well-known dye. It is useful as a biological stain, binds to DNA, and can turn your urine blue.. Incredibly, I'm opting to talk about how it's used in time-sensitive DVDs.
Someone finally did a review study on TV -- including "educational DVDs" -- and infants. Among results that should not surprise ...
Laurie David, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth writes about what happened when she tried to donate copies of the movie to schools:
I figured it was probably not as black-and-white as my fellow SB'ers were making it in their eagerness to pile on. Such stories usually aren't.
I was definitely over-eager to post without double-checking as I saw a couple of trusted bloggers post about it already. My bad.
"NSTA policy states that the association cannot endorse any outside organization's products and/or messages to its members. Therefore, we do not send any such products and/or messages directly to our members, regardless of the source."
This is no longer in the press release. What happened to it?
Similarly,
Is now missing from the end of the paragraph that begins "The partnership with API"....