dinosaurs, mars, and kareem abdul jabbar: science books for the kids on your shopping list
It’s the time of year again for my annual guest post on the science books I chose to add to my niece’s and nephew’s growing …
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guest post: gifts for the littlest scientists on your list
My hypothesis is this: Children can never have too many good books to read. In order to prove/disprove this hypothesis, I have set up the …
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love among the equations
[NOTE: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific America.] Four years ago on this date, the Time Lord and I officially tied …
gimme an “e” for education
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten," Rudyard Kipling once observed. The same could be said for science. …
i think that i shall never see / a carbon offset as lovely as a tree
I overhead an exasperated parent the other day: “The kid just won’t stop asking ‘why’ all the time. Everything I say, she challenges. She’s driving …
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boyz will be boyz
Since joining Twitter earlier this year, I've become a Tweet-happy fool, easily overtaking the Spousal Unit in sheer volume of Tweets. (It helps that so …
we are in…like…so much in trouble… episode two.
In my grouchier moments (one of which I am having right now), I am considering a public relations campaign to make fun of people who can’t do simple math and shame them into either acquiring some fundamental skills or staying quiet and not bothering the rest of us with their ignorance.
_+3=5+7=_: it depends what ‘equals’ equals
Pop quiz! Answer the following before reading further: A: 6+9=__+4 B: __+8=12+5 C: __+3=5+7=__ D: True or False: 6+8=3+11 E: 160=___ I've become painfully aware …
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_+3=5+7=_: it depends what ‘equals’ equals
Pop quiz! Answer the following before reading further: A: 6+9=__+4 B: __+8=12+5 C: __+3=5+7=__ D: True or False: 6+8=3+11 E: 160=___ I've become painfully aware …
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we can haz diversity?
A couple of months ago, co-blogger Diandra wrote about scientist stereotypes she encountered in a 4th grade class, in which very few of the kids …