Last Fall, I wrote a Katrina online activity entitled, Hurricane Katrina: A Citizen Resource. This citizen resource is designed to help us understand the magnitude of this natural disaster, and to point us toward ways to reduce...
Read MoreI came across an interesting article No, One Quake Did Not Lead to Another, in New York Times Online. The article pointed out that following Hawaii’s 6.7 quake on October 15, two other big quakes occurred, a 6.8 near...
Read MoreIn the wake of the mid-October Hawaii quake, scientists are not sure whether the >6 aftershock was an aftershock, or an independent earthquake. The first quake, which was measured at 6.7 on the Richter scale occurred at 7:07...
Read MoreThe other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don’t read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: “My, what a strange place for an...
Read MoreThe other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don’t read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: “My, what a strange place for an...
Read MoreThe short answer is yes. Here’s a longer answer. In 1986, Richard Rhodes published the Pulitzer Prize book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb giving us a sweeping account of the making of the first atomic bomb, including who...
Read MoreI’ve changed the Word Press Theme for my site, and I hope you like the new look. It’s called Neptune, and reflects the content of the site more closely in that we talk about science and science education. The theme...
Read MoreThe U.S. government is using scientific atmospheric tests to determine whether or not North Korea exploded an underground nuclear device. Air samples taken by the Pentagon have been analyzed, however, with contradictory results....
Read MoreJohn C. Mather of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and George F. Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics. They will split the $1.3 million prize. They headed a team of...
Read MoreThe first of five Nobel Prizes was awarded today in Sweden to two American scientists “for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.” The recipient were Andrew Z. Fire...
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