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Tiger Woods Reads Physics?
Despite the unfortunate nature of Tiger Woods’ return to top fold news this week, it has encouraged the sale of the book Get A Grip on Physics by John Gribbin. This book is definitely going to t… more →
Just Call Me Ms Frizzle
The Unconsidered Life
reillyn wrote 1 week ago: A little piece from RDF with A.C. Grayling that grasps a few points on literacy and values. … more →
Tiger Woods Reads Physics?
Becky wrote 2 weeks ago: Despite the unfortunate nature of Tiger Woods’ return to top fold news this week, it has encou … more →
Denialism: Science and Public Debate
Benjamin Steele wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve just come across the name of Michael Specter. He has received some attention lately beca … more →
Literacy Movement
Becky wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been taking a class on literacy in the context of science class and this EdWeek article w … more →
Classroom Current Events Day
Becky wrote 3 months ago: I’m always thinking of ways to incorporate current events into a science classroom. Recently, … more →
Point by Point: Electric Universe Theory
Troythulu wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a little exchange I found on an astronomy forum between an Electric Universe advocate a … more →
NOVA scienceNOW
Becky wrote 5 months ago: While I was watching last night’s episode of The Colbert Report, I was pleased to see that Ste … more →
Dominion Institute Poll
andrewdsmith wrote 6 months ago: A number of newspapers have recently published stories bemoaning Canadians’ ignorance of Canadian hi … more →
Book Review: The Scientists
Becky wrote 7 months ago: I was browsing through a book store the other day when I found The Scientists: A History of Science … more →
Book Review: The Last Book In The Universe
Becky wrote 7 months ago: Awhile ago, I wrote a post expressing my desire to add a literacy component to my high school scienc … more →
Science Books On My To Do List
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Becky wrote 8 months ago: Here’s a list of books that have been recommended to me, but I haven’t yet had the chanc … more →
Science Textbook Review
Becky wrote 9 months ago: The Teach Science and Math blog has published a review of some science textbooks here. … more →
Scientifically illiterate science pundit: Ben Goldacre
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Henry Bauer wrote 11 months ago: My previous post, “Scientific illiteracy, the media, science pundits, governments, and HIV/AIDS” (15 … more →
Units and Books
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Becky wrote 1 year ago: I was thinking the other day about how I could possibly create bigger units for the year to add some … more →
Fact checking
doubledogblog wrote 1 year ago: This really steamed my trunks. I heard this little snippet from the esteemed Senator McCain during t … more →
The "science staff" of MSNBC consists of one monkey at a keyboard, drunk as usual.
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truthwalker wrote 1 year ago: The United States maintains a military presence in Japan. The Navy, in particular, has kept a ship d … more →
Science is Misunderstood
eric_o wrote 1 year ago: Jonathan Drori on “Why we don’t understand as much as we think?”: Common misunders … more →
God is in the banana
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isamizdat wrote 1 year ago: Every so often I am bombarded by evidence that no one is imparting even the most basic level of scie … more →
Welcome To The New Dark Ages
grinningthorn wrote 1 year ago: Did you ever wish you lived during some exciting time in history, or, given all that is going on in … more →
