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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Could you pass 8th grade math?

I still could. And in just 2 minutes. One wonders if Richard Cohen, the columnist for the Washington Post who advised a young girl failing math that algebra was something she'd never need to know and shouldn't bother with.

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Via the inimitable PZ Myers at Pharyngula, a biologist who rightly tore Cohen a new one over this ridiculous assertion.

¶ 11:26 AM

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