Geology

The Earthquake of 1906 and the New Geology

Jan 3, 2006

I am in the mood to write about earthquakes. I've written about them before, and designed activities for teachers and high school students years ago. I have only experienced three earthquakes (in Columbus, Ohio (1967), San Francisco (1985) and Seattle (2001)). In the...

The Natural Selector and The Intelligent Designer: A Continuing Debate

Oct 27, 2005

A great dialog is going on right now in the midst of the Dover, PA school district's defense of insisting that teachers read a statement in biology classes that upgrades Intelligent Design to the level of Darwin's and Wallace's concept of natural selection and the...

California Earthquakes and Science Teaching

Jun 19, 2005

I've only had a few direct experiences with an earthquake (one each in Oakland, CA, Seattle, WA, and Columbus, OH), and yet this past week, California citizens experienced 4 earthquakes that rattled a number of locations, and one of the earthquakes triggered a tsunami...