Education and Outreach
A new University of Missouri study found the impact of the engineering curriculum and obstacles, including self-efficacy and feelings of inclusion, can impede women’s success in the predominantly male discipline of engineering.
Unemployed? Bored with your job? Thinking about a career change? The United States needs 200,000 more science and math teachers in the next 10 years, according to a story in the Christian Science Monitor.
Hallmark has announced a recall of its jumbo snowman snow globes due to the possibility of fire.
If only the designer had read the same newspaper article as a young lady who was working on a report for the laser teaching center at SUNY Stony Brook.
Were those of us who believed an Obama administration would be more friendly to science right?
Learning Methods helps the Learner to learn irrespective of thier skill level.
Global warming, intellgent design
Students from Asian countries were top performers in math and science at both the fourth and eighth grade levels, according to the most recent reports of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.
It's been a long year with a presidential election campaign that never seemed to end and a stock market that exploded with volatility, mostly on the down side.
So why are the powers that be adding more than the usual one day to this leap year, and why should you care?
I'm coming up for air during my hiatus with a request to Science Blog readers.
I want to use the quote below from Jacques Yves Cousteau as a featured quotation in a chapter on undersea exploration in a children's book I'm writing. It's all over the Internet, but no one cites the place it first appeared.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Can anyone here help? If so, you can post it here or find an e-mail link at my website.
Thanks all,
Fred Bortz
Darwin's anniversary, the tale of the mockingbirds, and Lonesome George.
As the hippest people in the community, scientists have an important role to play. It isn't all sexy glamor.
The Kids' Science Challenge is a nationwide competition designed to engage 3rd to 6th-graders in practicing science––and discovering how much fun it can be. Students will be able to submit experiments and problems to real scientists in very exciting, kid-friendly fields and then follow along as scientists and engineers attempt to do the experiments and solve these problems.
Palin takes on basic science research as an example of government waste.
Join the Science Blog crew this Friday, October 24 at noon in Los Angeles to discuss Obama, McCain and the sciences, courtesy of Farmlab.
I don't usually go for advocacy, but I can't believe that the Bahamas allow sea turtle fishing. Go to Oceana's website and sign up to help convince the Bahamian government to prohibit it. It takes 30 seconds - and it could really make a difference.
