| Marlena
(a nom de plume) has contributed to the Virtual Fossil
Museum since inception with images, writings
and editing.
She holds a doctorate in psychology, but her knowledge and
interests are eclectic. She a self-admitted humanist, anti-creationist,
evolutionist, and a strong proponent of women’s rights,
and really much more. She also confesses to a belief that
effective teaching needs to use rhetorical tools such as
those for which Mark Twain is famed, that is, irony, sarcasm,
sardonism and so forth. She believes that facetious remarks
and jokes convey meaning that people will remember, and possibly
evoke critical thinking, a skill that she believes is atrophying
in this too-much-information-age. As for non-critical
thinkers, sociopathic CEO’s, many politicians, fundamentalist
religions, and particularly creationists, she reserves scorn
and ridicule, without remorse. It seems that personality
disorders abound among humans, with part nurture and part
nature etiologies, and that they are mostly incurable. She
is also a half-hearted blogger, and the VFM has agreed to
post some of her wit (mainly the tamer stuff), believing
it will spice up the site, and further our shared goal of
fostering critical thinking. We will name her page eclectic
fossils. In turn, she’s agreed to assist in creating
some education content and PowerPoint slides, and generally
help build some content for educators. In the meantime, you
can surely visit her Tumblr blog, aptly named Eclectic
Irony. |
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