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Category: Religion

Food / Religion / Scientist

Remembrances of George Washington Carver

In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the university’s president, invited George Washington Carver to head its Agricultural Department.  He spent 47 years at Tuskegee developing numerous inventions and agricultural practices.  He was …

Evolution / Religion

The Absence of Evolution in Arkansas

On January 18th, 2005 the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sent a letter to the school board of Beebe, a small town of less than 10,000 located in the Northeast Central …

Evolution / Maps / Religion / Statistics

Monkey’s Uncles, Evolution, and the South

My journey for understanding the frequently tense relationship between the South and science has led me to an unlikely place—Oakland, California. In what appears to be a former auto body …

Maps / Religion

Map Friday: Religion in the US

There are Southern Baptists everywhere here.

Maps / Religion / Statistics

The Probability That Your Pappy Was Cremated in the South

That time of week for maps!  This Friday I am looking at cremation geography.  From Statemaster, I pulled percentage of deceased persons who are cremated for 2003.  

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