Education and Outreach
I tagged this with every category since I review books in all realms of science.
Though I plan to maintain my Science Shelf archive of book reviews, I will now also publish the reviews on Science Blog.
Somebody told me that he loves math. Brilliant! I love numbers since times when computers wasn`t such available as today and so I discovered that a number (any natural number!)
The glory days of the cartoon environmental spokesperson have diminished since the 90's. Isn't it time for someone to step up in the new millennium?
My personal observation is referring to the fact that, even it disposes of an infinitesimal small energy, the light particle are traversing in time infinite large,frozen spaces. And that`s why my questions. Which are my conclusions? First,
The fight to make Pluto a planet again is picking up momentum. Maybe a little presidential politics will be able to resolve the dispute. In unrelated news, cancer still isn't cured.
For those of you have have been wondering about whether ScienceDebate2008, the latest news is that it has morphed into a different but still viable form.
It won't take place in PA, but it may take place on PBS.
Click for the latest message from the organizers
National Public Health Week 2008 - April 7-13, 2008
This year's theme is Climate Change: Our Health in Balance.
Since I'm a science book reviewer, I thought I'd pass along a news release I got about this year's Orion Book Award winner and other nominated titles.
The National Science Foundation awards around 900 graduate fellowships each year to a wide variety of sciences, including everything from linguistics and mathematics to physics. These fellowships are a big deal, being both very hard to get and making a significant impact on the finances of the awardees.
So which universities get the most?
How did the Civil War and the Cold War affect the acceptance of evolution in the United States? The Missing Link - a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology - has just released the second show in a three-episode series on the fascinating history behind the evolution-intelligent design controversy.
I've taken a trip to Mars and returned home safely.
Like any tourist, I made sure to document my travels with a picture.
Have you read a good science book? Post it on the thread!
The lives of today’s college students have always included computers and the Internet. That technology now has moved from the ether into instruction. A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a “hybrid class” that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter-grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format.
Some people feel that our portrayal of chimpanzees in the media is harmful. Surprisingly, very few of them were stuntmen for "King Kong". (Yes, I know Kong is a gorilla.)
I got this from the folks at ScienceDebate2008 and I'm passing it along.
