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April 22, 2013

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2:21 PM | #HEASTEM13 Conference Reflections

Last week I attended the HEA STEM 2013 Conference . It’s taken a wee while to process all the different presentations and conversations. I was exhausted when I got home, and my head was spinning all through Friday as it tried to sort itself out. You can read through the tweets on Storify, collected [...]

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1:37 PM | Neutrinos

Let’s have a short talk on neutrinos. Neutrino is the Italian word for the ‘the small...

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1:29 PM | The flipped classroom is not about “throughput”

The Washington Post reports that universities are finding success with the flipped classroom in increasing student engagement while holding down costs. This is nice to hear, but watch out for the phrase, "saves money and boosts performance" when universities adopt new pedagogical practices.

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11:49 AM | Hobbies: idle pastimes or keys to science engagement?

Collecting and polishing rocks and minerals, hunting for shells and fossils, gardening, birding, keeping freshwater and marine aquariums – this was how I spent my childhood: hopping from one hobby to the next, all centered around the natural (or semi-natural) …

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11:25 AM | Why your armpits smell bad

tldr; = your armpits = lunch for bacteriaThe post Why your armpits smell bad appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

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7:19 AM | What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - The Receiver and the dreaded FYI

This is one in a series of blog posts about email. The other posts can be found...

April 21, 2013

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3:19 PM | Heroism Is Our Default Setting

One of the oft-cited takeaways from the past week is that people are basically awesome. In the midst of unpredictable danger and tragedy, residents (and guests) of the Boston area didn’t hesitate to help their fellow citizens. But what’s troubling about these realizations of human goodness is that they suggest an a priori doubt about [...]

Fischer, P., Krueger, J., Greitemeyer, T., Vogrincic, C., Kastenmüller, A., Frey, D., Heene, M., Wicher, M. & Kainbacher, M. (2011). The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies., Psychological Bulletin, 137 (4) 517-537. DOI: 10.1037/a0023304

Greitemeyer, T. & Mügge, D. (2013). Rational bystanders, British Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12036

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8:06 AM | Want Email?

Would you like to get your up to date microbiology news via email - on your mobile for example?The post Want Email? appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

April 20, 2013

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9:11 AM | What an Atom Looks Like

We all learnt about atoms in school. They are like our solar system, planets revolving around the...

April 19, 2013

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6:46 PM | Girls Explore Engineering with Marble Run Challenge

Getting girls inspired about engineering can be as simple as giving them the tools and a fun hands-on challenge to solve. Thanks to community support from Northrop Grumman, a group of Maryland middle school girls tested their marble run mettle...

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5:16 PM | It’s Okay To Be Smart – It Really Is

A few months ago Joe Hanson premiered his new video series called ‘It’s Okay To Be Smart‘, a joint project with PBS Digital Studios. In addition to being a true science geek, Joe has a flashy on-screen charisma that make for some pretty entertaining short films. In its first few months online, the series has [...]

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5:02 PM | #DispatchesDNLee: Ninafika Morogoro, Tanzania!

I safely arrived to Mororgoro Tanzania on Wednesday afternoon, April 17. While most of my friends in the States and Canada were rising from their sleep, I was happy to see the cloud-covered Uluhuru mountains high in the sky. I swear it felt like I was just here! As I was coming up the main [...]

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4:29 PM | Dear News, stop trying to entertain me.

No, really. Stop it. I don’t need flashy graphics, scary music and breathless reporters. I don’t need to “Find out after the commercial break!!” I don’t want you to be the first with your breaking news and speculations. I *really* don’t want you to interview heartbroken relatives, shell-shocked neighbors and terrified kids. Ever. You don’t [...]

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3:26 PM | Surface Tension in Space

If you’ve done an experiment where you drip water onto a penny, or made Tie Dye Milk, you know what surface tension looks like here on Earth. How does it look in space? Here’s an amazing video demonstrating how the surface tension of water looks in zero gravity on the international space station. Fascinating! Related [...] Related posts:Mars Curiosity Landing Video I love that filmmaker Brad Canning thanks NASA, NASA’s Jet... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another […]

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2:12 PM | Not everything that counts can be counted

My first post for physicsfocus described a number of frustrating deficiencies in the peer review system, focusing in particular on how we can ensure, via post-publication peer review, that science does not lose its ability to self-correct. I continue to rant about discuss and dissect the issue of post-publication peer review in an article in [...]The post Not everything that counts can be counted appeared first on physicsfocus.org.

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1:57 PM | "The Kepler spacecraft has certainly turned out to be a rock star of science"

“The Kepler spacecraft has certainly turned out to be a rock star of science” - So says...

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11:29 AM | My Hummocks

Flagella - they're not just for swimming.The post My Hummocks appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

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5:17 AM | Video of the Week: Visualizing 150 Years of Health Data

Technology has transformed the process of science—this fact is indisputable. It has allowed us to detect elusive particles like the Higgs boson that remained invisible to generations of physicists, to probe the cold vacuum of outer space for habitable Earth-like planets with unmanned spacecraft, to simulate the complex pulses of …

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4:23 AM | Was the Push For an Assault Weapons Ban a Bad Idea? Digging into the “Door In the Face” Technique

The Senate’s sad failure to pass any kind of gun control legislation has led to the rehashing of what can now be deemed failed political tactics. Much of the focus has been on the decision of gun control advocates to initially pursue an assault weapons ban: Congressional consideration was also delayed by gun control proponents’ [...]

Cialdini, R. & et al, . (1975). Reciprocal concessions procedure for inducing compliance: The door-in-the-face technique., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31 (2) 206-215. DOI: 10.1037/h0076284

Feeley, T., Anker, A. & Aloe, A. (2012). The Door-in-the-Face Persuasive Message Strategy: A Meta-Analysis of the First 35 Years, Communication Monographs, 79 (3) 316-343. DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2012.697631

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April 18, 2013

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6:17 PM | Weekly Science Project Idea/Home Science Activity Spotlight: Flip-book Animation

School and family science weekly spotlight: create easy and fun flip-book animations to explore the optical illusion behind animation.

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11:10 AM | Is a new approach needed to fight XDR-TB?

There is one major disease where the battle is still being badly lost - tuberculosis.The post Is a new approach needed to fight XDR-TB? appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

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11:00 AM | Google Glass & Dynamic Textbooks

Google Glass, an upcoming glasses / camera / internet hybrid, is finally in the hands of developers. There are a few videos of people walking around and doing ... normal things, but the one that really caught my attention was this go kart race by Google's Josh Armour. This video shows off the smooth, high definition video that can be captured at decent speeds.My imagination runs wild in terms of STEM education. Imagine bringing a group of kids to a carnival and having […]

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8:34 AM | Three Quarks for Muster Mark

Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark. —James...

April 17, 2013

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4:19 PM | Oil and Water

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2:22 PM | Exploring the “New National Lab,” tonight in Philly with the Association of Women in Science, Philadelphia

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12:11 PM | Guidance on Challenging Plants and Medicines now available!

We recognise the Challenging Plants and Challenging Medicines resources contain a huge amount of information in the form of presentations, handouts, worksheets and experiment sheets for teachers and students. With 100 resources in Challenging Plants and over 50 in Challenging Medicines it is difficult to see how the resources link to each other and how seemingly biology-based resources are linked to topics taught by teachers every day. We have now provided pedagogical overviews for Plants and […]

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11:32 AM | Fleas and smaller fleas: virotherapy for parasite infections

The idea of controlling a pathogen with another microorganism is not new.The post Fleas and smaller fleas: virotherapy for parasite infections appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

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4:45 AM | Why You Should Always Confront Prejudice

What goes through your mind when somebody makes a racist or sexist remark? Perhaps you feel a strong desire to expose their morally bankrupt worldview through an artful recitation of contemporary philosophy and social science research. Perhaps the potential awkwardness of scolding an acquaintance leads you to avoid confrontation. Whatever you’ve done in the past, [...]

Rasinski, H., Geers, A. & Czopp, A. (2013). "I Guess What He Said Wasn't That Bad": Dissonance in Nonconfronting Targets of Prejudice, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, DOI: 10.1177/0146167213484769

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April 16, 2013

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7:56 PM | To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science

Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas. As STEM becomes more important in our increasingly interconnected [...]

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5:06 PM | Project MERCCURI microbe sampling at San Antonio Spurs game!

This post is by David Coli and it originally appeared on MicroBE.net The Science Cheerleaders, in partnership with SciStarter and UC Davis, conducted our first large-scale public microbial sampling event for Project MERCCURI (a.k.a. Microbes in Spaaaace!) at the San Antonio Spurs game on April 12! Around 330 teachers from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference bought tickets to the game. After the game many of them came down on the court to take photos, shoot baskets and […]

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