John 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...
Read MoreA new organization was launched yesterday Scientists and Engineers for America, dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreThere was an article in this week’s Newsweek Magazine titled, The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon? which raised questions about what schools are doing to young students in the name of education. There is an add on...
Read MoreSuppose colleges and universities stopped using the SAT as part of their admission process into undergraduate school? Decades ago, Bates College and Bowdoin College eliminated the use of the test in the admission process, and...
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