An interesting article caught my attention as I was scrolling through the New York Times online. It was entitled Emblem of the West is Dying, No One Can Figure Out Why. The emblem? The Aspen Tree. Image: A Stand of Aspen Trees...
Read MoreTaking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 is a new report soon to be released by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The report was supported with grants from the National Academy...
Read MorePerhaps one of the important trends over the past 20 years in science teaching has been the “science and social responsibility movement†which resulted in programs that have impacted K-12 schools, not only in the US,...
Read MoreJames Lovelock’s new book, The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity, deal with this issue, and he makes the claim that it should be the central part of a mix of energy sources to power...
Read MoreFor the past several years, James Lovelock, has proposed the use of nuclear power plants as the solution to the problem of greenhouse gases, and their impact on the earth’s temperature. In fact he suggests that huge...
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