Peter Buckland

• Age: 33
• Gender: Male
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: Teacher, Student, and Editor
• Location: My neural architecture : Pennsylvania : United States
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About Me

I am a graduate student in Penn State's Department of Educational Theory and Policy, a teacher, father, husband, progressive, atheist, and a metalhead. I agree with T.H. Huxley that "[t]he foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge." In order for the human animal to live most effectively into the future, it must understand its biological and cultural development in its personal, social, cultural, biotic, earthly, and universal environment. This undertaking, though vast, must come about by the systematic exploration of everything available to us - from where our food comes from to the space shuttle, from cave painting to heavy metal, from ancient religion to modern science - and no assumption should remain unchecked no matter how popular or seemingly obvious. NOTE: This blog is in no way affiliated with Penn State University. It is a private blog.

Why are the most "educated" people on Earth also the most wasteful?

Interests

• My wife
• my son
• mu writing
• reading
• XC single-speed bicycles
• love
• life
• science reading
• sical composition
• guitar playing
• atheism
• my family
• my friends
• microbrew beers

Favorite Movies

• Seven
• Schindler's List
• The Pianist
• Lost In Translation
• Monty Python: The Holy Grail and The Meaning of Life
• The Root of All Evil
• Growing Up In The Universe
• Walking with Dinosaurs
• Office Space
• The Matrix

Favorite Music

• Cynic
• Penderecki
• Lutoslawski
• Schnittke
• Mahler
• Shostakovich
• Stravinsky
• Sibelius
• Reich
• Death
• Metallica
• Pink Floyd
• Necrophagist
• Sepultura
• Helmet
• Decapitated

Favorite Books

• Night
• The Painted Bird
• The Things They Carried
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Tools for Conviviality
• Experience and Education
• Moral Principles and Education
• Individualism Old & New
• Freedom and Culture
• The Sixth Extinction
• What Are People For?
• The Unsettling of America
• The Last Refuge
• Ecological Literacy
• Letter to a Christian Nation
• The God Delusion
• The Devil's Chaplain
• The Dragons of Eden
• The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
• The Earthsea Trilogy
• Breaking the Spell
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• The Panda's Thumb
• Creation's Trojan Horse
• God Is Not Great
• Living with Darwin
• Science
• Truth
• and Democracy
• Abusing Science
• The Devil in Dover
• Creationism's Trojan Horse

My Blogs	Team Members
3E-COE	Zachary Bullock 3E-COE: Environment, Ecology, and Education Jared Blumer Alexandra D'Urso
Forms Most Beautiful
Sustainability Now	Show host