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April 26, 2013

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2:10 PM | Hey, awesome blog plus those cute drawings of yours. =)))
Thank you very much ^_^. I really appreciate that ! I’m just trying to make learning fun and...
Carbonstuff
Education
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1:50 PM | Citizen science at the Philadelphia Science Festival and NASA Space Apps Challenge
Science Cheerleaders bring “citizen science” to the Philadelphia Science Festival and the NASA Space Apps Challenge. Learn how you can get involved in our research project to compare microbes on Earth to microbes on the International Space Station!
Science Cheerleader
Education | Policy
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12:04 PM | Let’s Put Women In Charge
They’ll probably be more ethical: Women select into business school at a lower rate than men and are underrepresented in high-ranking positions in business organizations. We examined gender differences in reactions to ethical compromises as one possible explanation for these disparities. In Study 1, when reading decisions that compromised ethical values for social status and [...]
Peer-reviewed by my neurons
Education | Psychology
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11:45 AM | I don’t like oral sex but don’t know how to say so
Recently my advice column for The Telegraph answered a question from a woman who wasn’t sure about receiving oral sex....
Dr. Petra Boynton
Education | Health
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11:16 AM | Citizen Science visits New Orleans: a 24-hour BioBlitz
Source: http://www.nps.gov/jela/barataria-preserve.htm Each year since 1996, the National Geographic Society joins with the U.S. National Park Service to host one BioBlitz, and this year it will be held down on the bayou! On May 17th-18th citizen scientists will join field biologists to map and inventory the living creatures in the Big Easy’s Jean Lafitte National Historic [...]
Science For Citizens
Education | General Science
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10:25 AM | Defining physics: What’s in, what’s out?
In this month’s Physics World, Peter Main and Charles Tracy debate how physics should be defined. It’s a tricky issue if you want to do better than the old adage: ”if it moves it’s biology, if it smells it’s chemistry and if it doesn’t work it’s physics”. As physicists we know that’s not good enough. The [...]The post Defining physics: What’s in, what’s out? appeared first on physicsfocus.org.
physicsfocus
Education | Physics
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4:36 AM | “We thought this system might be extreme enough to show a...
“We thought this system might be extreme enough to show a breakdown in general relativity, but instead, Einstein’s predictions held up quite well”. So says Paulo Freire, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany. We know that Einstein’s theory of gravity, General Relativity, although very successful, is not the full story. It is not very compatible with quantum gravity, which leaves scientists with a gaping hole in their understanding of our […]
Carbonstuff
Education

April 25, 2013

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9:27 PM | #DispatchesDNLee: In Tanzania, Reflecting on World Malaria Day
Today, April 25, 2013 is World Malaria Day. I learned about Malaria in junior high school. Along with Yellow Fever and the Flu of 1918 these were the headline diseases we learned about in Health Class. Later in high school biology and social studies courses, I learned about these diseases again. In college I learned [...]
The Urban Scientist
Education | Evolution
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6:39 PM | Getting students involved with linear algebra through poster projects
Application projects that culminate in a public poster presentation are a great way to help students learn not only linear algebra and its applications but also presentations skills and a few valuable life lessons as well.
Casting out Nines
Education | Mathematics
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5:26 PM | Iron Man and Fiber Optics—Technology at the Speed of Light
Verizon FiOS teams up with Science Buddies in support of science literacy. Fiber optics technology offers high-speed data delivery, but what's going on in a fiber optics system? Look to the 'light' for answers with hands-on science projects that let...
Science Buddies Blog
Education
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12:00 PM | Curiosity Kills The Gap: Helping Kids with STEM
This week's White House Science Fair is another great example of presidents using the White House to push a scientific agenda. Levar Burton, one of the co-hosts of the event, often repeated Obama's saying that you should be invited to the White House whether you win an sports championship or a science fair. Not only is it great to see young scientists celebrated on a national stage, but you also get super adorable photos like this:Levar Burton and Bill Nye The Science Guy help […]
ShareefJackson.com
Education | General Science
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11:44 AM | Drawing the line – they shall not pass?
The Wallace Line may not protect Australia from the spread of viruses.The post Drawing the line – they shall not pass? appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
MicrobiologyBytes
Education | Microbiology
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11:25 AM | Law of Conservation of Mass
Mass is neither created nor destroyed. This ubiquitous statement of the law of conservation of mass...
Carbonstuff
Education
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8:33 AM | Thumb-type keyboard takes on Qwerty
wildcat2030: See on Scoop.it - Cyborg Lives Researchers create a new keyboard which they claim lets...
Carbonstuff
Education
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4:11 AM | How Knowledge Can Make You Stupid
(cross-posted from The Inertia Trap) The human ability to infer what other people are thinking is a big reason we’re able to understand and cooperate with others. Along with the ability to take pictures of our food, it’s what separates us from lesser primates. But we’re not born with this ability. Experiments involving what’s called [...]

Sommerville, J., Bernstein, D. & Meltzoff, A. (2013). Measuring Beliefs in Centimeters: Private Knowledge Biases Preschoolers' and Adults' Representation of Others' Beliefs, Child Development, DOI:

Peer-reviewed by my neurons
Education | Psychology
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1:23 AM | India is Drowning in its Own Excreta-Can Science and Engineering Come to the Rescue?
Just a few weeks ago, I flew into India to join other new media specialists and journalists with the International Reporting Project to examine issues of child survival and health. (Before I continue, I simply must extend thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for providing a portion of the IRP funding to make [...]
PsiVid
Education | Science Communication

April 24, 2013

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7:32 PM | It Grows. It Glows. #realtimechem
It was the Salters’ Festival of Chemistry  at Keele today, organised by Dr Jane Essex from Education. The school children did two lab based activities then were sent to the lecture theatre with me for a chemistry magic show. I did the usual demos (for me) with liquid nitrogen, hydrogen balloons, the blue bottle, the [...]
Endless Possibilities v3.0
Chemistry | Education
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7:28 PM | Name That Ant!
“Never judge an ant at first glance,” warns Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, myrmecologist and head of the School of Ants project. Meet Forelius pruinosus. At first glance, it may seem a little unimpressive, even underwhelming. However, the more you learn about Forelius, the more you realize there’s more to it than meets the antennae. For one, [...]
Science For Citizens
Education | General Science
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6:52 PM | White House Seeking Stellar “Citizen Scientists” as White House Champions of Change
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog. April 23, 2013 Every day, across the country, ordinary Americans known as “citizen scientists” make critical contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by collecting, analyzing, and sharing a wide range of data—from weather phenomena, to sightings of [...]
Science For Citizens
Education | General Science
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2:02 PM | Mars One mission could go horribly wrong — if it ever gets off the ground
For the space-inclined, the week got off to an interesting start on Monday with a press conference from the team behind Mars One, the Danish not-for-profit organisation that’s planning to broadcast the establishment of the first human settlement on Mars like a reality TV show. It was a fascinating conference, more for what the Mars [...]The post Mars One mission could go horribly wrong — if it ever gets off the ground appeared first on physicsfocus.org.
physicsfocus
Education | Physics
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1:15 PM | Excitement About Iron Man Fuels Student Science Inquiry
With the third Iron Man movie coming to the big screen next week, now is a great time to spark science and engineering excitement among student fans. With Marvel's Iron Man 3 hitting theaters on May 3, excitement among sci-fi...
Science Buddies Blog
Education
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11:08 AM | Incoming: Tracking Virus Evolution
The ongoing dance between a virus and its host shapes how the virus evolves.The post Incoming: Tracking Virus Evolution appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
MicrobiologyBytes
Education | Microbiology
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6:05 AM | Asteroid to meteorite
Asteroid to meteorite
Carbonstuff
Education
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12:40 AM | Where Did The Moon Come From?
As long as we’ve been around, it’s always been there.  It rises and sets each night.  It cycles through its phases every 28 days.  It controls the tides, it’s been helping with our navigation for hundreds of years, and (as everyone knows) it brings out the werewolves every month or so (hahaha). That being said…have […]
Dinner Table Science
Science Communication | Education

April 23, 2013

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8:04 PM | The Attention Deficit Disorders or: pay attention!
The idea that made me write this entry arose over a photograph that I took of a cardinal bird, honestly I just saw the cardinal but my good friend Roberto Estévez made me a comment: it seems the bird is looking at you!. My response to that comment was that surely the bird was watching paying attention to every detail since they are being a wild creature there are around several predators, also because it has to compete for food. Two days later, my husband went to a meeting to another city and […]
Talking about Neurocognition and learning
Education | Neuroscience
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7:49 PM | Hudson Valley Climate & Species Changes
Lake Mohonk Mountain House, on the Shawangunk Ridge in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York, has long kept an invaluable record of daily weather conditions and phenological changes in the area.  Phenological changes are dates of periodic biological phenomena like the first appearance of certain migrating bird species in the spring, the first flowering of specific plants, the singing of spring peeper frogs, etc.Keeping of these records started in 1896 with naturalist Daniel […]
Hudson Valley Geologist
Education | Geosciences
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6:34 PM | What Do “Corporate” Education Reformers Really Want?
There’s a story about the current state of U.S. education policy in which the key actors are a cabal of wealthy businessmen who are plowing money into “reform” organizations so they can profit from the gutting of our public education system. It’s a story that’s detrimental to constructive debate because regardless of what you think [...]
Peer-reviewed by my neurons
Education | Psychology
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3:58 PM | Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry: I love organic chemistry. It is my favorite science. There is...
Carbonstuff
Education
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11:56 AM | Major changes to Bioscience Horizons
1. Now the International Journal of Student Research – we accept papers from across the world 2. Now accepting papers from taught masters as well as undergraduate 3. Now accepting multiple authors (to include supervisors) although the student must be the primary author. http://biohorizons.oxfordjournals.org/  The post Major changes to Bioscience Horizons appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
MicrobiologyBytes
Education | Microbiology
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11:00 AM | How A Barack Obama Hug Led to the Harlem Shake
It was an unexpected journey, from the George W. Bush Shake, the Barack Obama Hug to the Harlem Shake. Appreciation from the President of the United States is one of the highest honors any American can receive. No, it wasn’t me, but the best part is that it was one of our students. I have…
Dean's Corner
Education | General Science
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