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The Art of Junk Science

by Jack Hassard | May 23, 2007 | Issues

I read an article in the local paper that a U.S. Senator had evoked the phrase “junk science” when explaining why Rachel Carson’s work should not be considered for an award in the U.S. Senate. He was speaking...

Project Green Classroom

by Jack Hassard | May 8, 2007 | Environment

This has been a year so far where the concept of “green” is moving into the mainstream, and is no longer relegated to “environmental activists.” However, we need to remind ourselves that it was the...

Air Quality Awareness

by Jack Hassard | May 2, 2007 | Environment

This week is the EPA’s Air Quality Awareness Week. And it was a good choice of weeks to select as the ground-level ozone season has begun in Atlanta, and other cities, I am sure. I live in the Atlanta area, and yesterday...

Gliese 581c Inhabitants Visit Earth: Mission to the Blue Planet

by Jack Hassard | May 1, 2007

As this week’s Newsweek article said, if you are Looking for Life? Try Gliese 581c. It turns out that astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Chile indirectly inferred the existence of an earth-like planet...

Mission to the Blue Planet

by Jack Hassard | Apr 30, 2007 | Space Science

Last week, astronomers in Europe announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System. It was discovered this month, and it orbits the star Gliese 581, which is a red dwarf star located a little more than...

The Value of Student-to-Student Exchanges

by Jack Hassard | Apr 24, 2007 | Citizen Scientists, Technology

For nearly 20 years, I was involved with a project that started in the 1980’s with people to people exchanges between educators and psychologists in North America with colleagues in the Soviet Union. We made annual visits...

Silent Springs of Past

by Jack Hassard | Apr 22, 2007 | Environment

Today is Earthday, 2007. On today’s CBS News Sunday Morning Program, one of the feature stories was The Legacy of “Silent Spring.” We all now know that Rachel Carson, the author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring...

The Green Year?

by Jack Hassard | Apr 21, 2007 | Environment

Tomorrow is the year 2007 Earth Day, which started in 1970. Could the year 2007 be the Green Year, the tipping year in which government and industry embraced the importance of environmental sustainability just as the public is...

How to teach science education courses real good?

by Jack Hassard | Apr 15, 2007 | Teacher Education

Science methods courses ought to be just as interesting and exciting as the best high school geology or physics class. How to teach science education courses to achieve this goal is the subject of this weblog entry. We’ve...

Goldilocks Climates: Do You Live in One?

by Jack Hassard | Apr 3, 2007 | Environment

In today’s NYTimes, Andrew C. Revkin, the outstanding science reporter and writer, published an article entitled Wealth and Poverty, Drought and Flood: Reports from 4 Fronts in the War on Warming. In it he compares and...