Sam Seder v. Libertarian Prof. Walter Block: Freedom, Slavery, & Civil Rights Act – Video

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Sam Seder v. Libertarian Prof. Walter Block: Freedom, Slavery, Civil Rights Act
PART 2: Professor Walter Block proposed that laissez faire free market exchanges are the best way to organize society, how Block thinks the United States limits freedom, debating the minimum...

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Freedom moves closer to first girls lacrosse playoff berth

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Within seconds of Macey Walker's fourth goal Thursday night, the skies beyond the south end zone at Bethlehem Area School District stadium lit up in a short but intense fireworks display.

"I set that up, you know?" the Freedom senior captain said with a grin.

Had they come about a half-hour later, they would have helped celebrate a critical victory for the Patriots' girls lacrosse program

Walker and fellow senior Lauren Fodale combined for seven goals to help Freedom move within one victory of the first postseason playoff berth in the program's three-year history. The led the way to an 11-7 Lehigh Valley Conference win over crosstown-rival Liberty on a night when seniors on both teams were honored in the first-ever lacrosse game on the Frank Banko Field turf.

Freedom (8-8, 4-6 LVC) can qualify for the District 11 tournament with a win over Moravian Academy on Monday or at winless Quakertown on Wednesday.

"Oh man, to go out as a senior in districts, it doesn't get much better than that," said Walker, who has been with the program since Day One. "And to beat our rival to take some pressure off of having to win both those games, it really doesn't get much better than that."

"We're looking to win out,' added Freedom coach Chris Innarella. "At the beginning of the season I set the tone high for them, because I believed these kids were capable of greatness. I told them if they worked hard and stood tall together, great things would happen and success would come. They know where things are at, but you coach one game at a time, and today put us in a really good situation."

It was a freshman, Emily Rowan, who got the Patriots off running with a goal just 14 seconds after the opening draw. Macey's first three goals helped the lead grow to 5-1, and goals by Fodale (12 seconds into the second half), Rowan, Walker and Christina Youwakim made it 10-3 with 16:56 left.

Liberty (2-11, 2-7) didn't go quietly, however, closing within 10-6 with 4:25 left on the fourth of Ceci Barron's five goals. Hannah Beegle, Freedom's freshman goalie, kept the Hurricanes from getting closer with several saves on point-blank shots over the 12-minute span before Freedom senior Kristen Bell delivered the final blow with 3:53 left.

"She's a goofball, but she was amazing," Walker said of Beegle's play.

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The Need for Astronomy: Teaching Science in Tanzania (Op-Ed)

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Mponda Malozo, an amateur astronomer, works with the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture as an environmental and agriculture expert, is coordinator for Universe Awareness-Tanzania, and is the Tanzania coordinator of Astronomers Without Borders (AWB), and the Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) and Star Peace in Tanzania. Chuck and Susan Ruehle are trained teachers, retired Lutheran pastors, and thefounders of AWB's Telescopes to Tanzania. The authors are collaborating with a Tanzanian non-governmental organization in the development of a Center for Science Education and Observatory. The authors contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Four years ago, Chuck and Susan Ruehle went on a mission trip to Tanzania to visit schools, hospitals, orphanages, clinics and churches. Everyone in the eight-member delegation talked about what they were going to take for the schools they were going to visit, and being visual astronomers in Racine, Wisc., the Ruehles took three small telescopes . They shared a few simple supplies for teaching science and for observing the night sky with schools and communities and people were very interested and committed to using those tools.

Through Astronomers without Borders, the Ruehles were introduced to Mponda Malozo, and together they planned a two-week teacher training event using astronomy as a vehicle for teaching science, math and geography. In a teacher training session, one teacher stated: "It sounds like you are saying that the sun is a star." It was that single comment followed by myriad more that committed the Ruehles to working with teachers to build a better understanding of the universe.

From that two week experience, the vision for the Center for Science Education and Observatory for northeast Tanzania was born.

Now, that center is poised to become a reality. The center demonstrates how classroom-taught theories can be transformed into student-motivated explorations of science questions. Astronomy will become the center's tool to explain the underlying principles of science, math and engineering disciplines.

In June 2014, a specially selected group of teachers, scientists and education officers will gather near Arusha, Northern Tanzania, to develop an astro-science model for the nation and as a model to be shared throughout Africa. As for the facility itself, the center has been using a donated office facility with space for workshops and secure storage for science materials but teachers and students are waiting for the center's centerpiece, a 12-inch Cave Cassegrain telescope being refurbished and readied for transport from the United States.

Below are our personal thoughts about the effort, and if you wish to support the project, you can learn more on our donation site.

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Living in a land where the majority of people are trying to attain the basic needs of life, changing the archaic lecture-based education system is perceived as prestigious and too expensive.

Looking at the history of Tanzania, very few people have managed to surface and give back to society. Even teachers, who are paid very small salaries, must devote precious preparation and learning time to bringing additional resources for their families' incomes.

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Inventor of the camera used on Hubble telescope has died

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This colorful collection of Hubble Space Telescope images of portion of the Monkey Head Nebula reveals a collection of carved knots of gas and dust silhouetted against glowing gas. The cloud is sculpted by ultraviolet light eating into the cool hydrogen gas. NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Bruce Woodgate, the principal investigator for the Hubble space telescope camera that has helped scientists discover black holes and supernovas has died, NASA officials confirmed Thursday.

Woodgate died earlier this week after suffering several strokes in the past month.

A nearly 40-year NASA veteran, Woodgate was most well known for overseeing the design and development of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). The STIS was added to the Hubble space telescope in 1997.

"He was a good guy, and what I always thought a scientist should be: Curious, inquisitive, willing to try to figure out if something made sense (and willing to stick his neck out if it was anywhere near the borderline of possibility), and fascinated by the amazing and varied science his camera made possible," Phil Plait wrote in Slate. Plait worked on the STIS with Woodgate in late 1990s.

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With this technology, the STIS has been a game changer in astronomy research.

Scientists have discovered supermassive black holes, merging "antennae galaxies," and planets around other stars using STIS. It has also detected an exoplanet's exosphere and the invisible high-speed collision around supernova 1987a.

In addition to STIS, Woodgate was developing a photon-counting UV detector using the latest in solid-state physics and nano-fabrication techniques.

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