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South-Asian / American

Thursday, July 22, 2010

[A dusty desert dive bar in the Antelope Valley. A clean-shaven  South Asian gentleman enters wearing a collared shirt and jeans.  He nods, cocksure, to the bartendress, who recognizes him and smiles. He takes a seat at a dark corner table, gestures to order a glass of merlot, and begins to read his Nook by the [...]

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The Fallow Fields of Today’s Society

Friday, July 3, 2009

It is a beautiful but hazy morning in the San Joaquin Valley, as I ride the Amtrak #701 north to Sacramento, sipping my habitual coffee as I type. In the early morning light, the endless fields of crops – the farms, vineyards, and orchards that supply the nation with a third of its food – [...]

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Rethinking Public Education

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

by Nalin Ratnayake
I haven’t written anything but technical memos for a long time, so to get back in the zone I’m going to take a transition approach. This is an edited and expanded article that I published some time ago on another blog.
Time and time again I see articles and blog posts, mainly on [...]

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Anti-(Anti-Evolutionism)

Saturday, November 26, 2005

by Nalin Ratnayake
In Donald Eiken’s letter of Nov. 23rd to the East Valley Tribune, he reels off four so-called “facts” about evolution that he claims go unchallenged by the scientific community. I would like to rebut:
1. There are intermediary gaps in the fossil record. Well ok Mr Eiken, let’s say I have two fossils, Fossil [...]

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