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This evening, Paul and I were channel-hopping, and we thought "Super Tornado" looked good. Normally, I find shows about natural phenomena really interesting, so it seemed the right choice. But when we started watching (a little after it had started), the programme was focusing on the staff and children at one of the two elementary schools that was hit.
I watched for a couple of minutes, wondering why it would occur to anyone to film this on their cameraphones rather than doing everything they […]
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This past week was the last week of the first Scifund Online Outreach Class, in which more than a hundred scientists and educators from around the world got together to improve their outreach skills. I was excited to participate in the class, and ended up enjoying it more than I ever expected.My former advisor, Stephen Richter, identifying stream insects with local biology teachers.Science outreach is loosely defined as any activity that raises the public's awareness of science.
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On June 3rd, the Supreme Court upheld the practice of collecting DNA at arrest. “Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,” wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the 5-4 majority decision. “DNA is another metric of identification [...]The post UPDATE: DNA Swab at Arrest is Affirmed by Supreme Court appeared first on Genetics Generation.
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“Honey, your skirt is a little short.” To be fair, it was a little short. It was short intentionally. I was dressed in a science officer costume from Star Trek: The Original Series. Not the sleek little work-appropriate but still sexy jewel tone tunics from the new movie, but the flared, strangely-constructed, unapologetically teal and [...]
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School and family science weekly spotlight: investigate to find out how often each color of M&M's appears. What are the odds of pulling your favorite color? Find out in these math and statistics projects.
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Paul Bruno has a good post offering a theory for why merit pay often fails to raise test scores. In short, Bruno thinks teachers simply aren’t sure how to increase student achievement, and thus it’s problem of ingenuity, not motivation or effort. This strikes me as the right way to look at things, and I’m [...]
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For those of us that are unable to travel to Australia for World Oceans Day, Tourism and Events Queensland is bringing the reef to the world. Starting at 10am (AEDT) on June 7th (which is 8pm EST June 6th for those of us in North America) the coverage will be live-streaming for 12 solid hours. [...]
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I've spent quite a bit of time in the last week marking exam essays about papillomaviruses, so it's good to relax by reading about .... papillomaviruses ;-)The post Because you can never hear enough about papillomaviruses appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
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Levels of Biological Organisation
Imagine we are in space, and we are zooming in onto a forested area on the Earth. We see different levels of biological organisation.
1) Biosphere: This is the first level of Bio Organisation. It is the layer of the Earh that supports life, namely, the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, etc.
2) Ecosystem: As we zoom in onto our forest, we find many features, such as lakes, sand, trees, animals, etc. These constitute the ecosystem. They have a living (e.g.,
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When we were packing up all of our boxes for a recent outreach activity (the Keele Community Day), we were discussing what the first outreach activity we had ever done was. Unsurprisingly, Richard and I did the same event: a Chemistry Cluedo event as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Start-Up Science Master [...]
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Over the years I've put a lot of my microbiology videos on YouTube.The post I made you some videos appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
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Author suggests that a cognitive precursor underlying the ability to interpret data is the realization that events [sometimes] leave traces in the world, and that by examining the traces one can [sometimes] make ...
