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December 22, 2010

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6:07 PM | Eight-Year-Olds Teach Themselves About The Bees

Birds come next. Discover | Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal Their paper, based on fieldwork carried out in a local churchyard, describes how bumblebees can learn which flowers to forage from with more flexibility than anyone … Continue reading →

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12:22 AM | GenSpace DIY Biotech Lab Opens In New York City

Some explosion in DIY Science activity in the last few weeks. So, any interest in making these for sciences other than biology? Anyway, How To Write A Science Article: Wired Science | DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC “If … Continue reading →

December 15, 2010

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1:45 AM | How Do I Get My Kids Interested In Science?

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Get out of the way! And get out of the way as a minimum. As a maximum, further stimulate curiosity by surrounding kids with things that they can explore on their own.”

December 09, 2010

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6:44 PM | Televisual And Accessible

In Not Fit For Television, Dr. Petra recounts her experience repeatedly declining a gig as TV Subject Matter Expert, only to be told by the show’s producers that they wanted her because “I was ‘televisual’ (wow, lucky me), I was … Continue reading →

October 05, 2010

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7:48 PM | Science Bloggers For Students!

Please support my efforts in the Science Bloggers for Students challenge, a friendly month-long competition (10/10/10 through 11/9/10) between science blogs to see which can do the most to help low-income classrooms on DonorsChoose.org. Pick a Science, Technology, Engineering & … Continue reading →

September 09, 2010

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8:31 PM | Working Women: Society’s Double Standard

Angelina Jolie and science have little to do with one another, unless you want to stretch and include her in the Nerd Pantheon for Hackers. If one of the aims of Science 3.0 is the advancement of research, however, it … Continue reading →

July 29, 2010

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2:54 PM | Replacing Slashdot?

How does a pirate scientist stay informed out here on the lonely high seas, I ask ye. From ReadWriteWeb: Why is Slashdot [now] almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to … Continue reading →

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1:13 PM | Early Childhood Values

NYTimes | The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers Students who had learned much more in kindergarten were more likely to go to college than students with otherwise similar backgrounds. Students who learned more were also less likely to become single … Continue reading →

July 28, 2010

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6:48 PM | Avast!

Just this morn I sat on the poop deck and wondered, “It was my interest in geology, which requires laboratory facilities and access to field education, that motivated and propelled me through university, i.e. what is otherwise a factory conveyor … Continue reading →