October 2008

Donate to classrooms through ScienceBlogs

October 5, 2008

ScienceBlogs is helping raise funds for classroom projects in math and science.  Check out the website for the different projects sponsored by the different blogs.  Many of the schools asking for donations are in high poverty regions.  You can help sponsor a project on solar energy, get DNA model kits for a classroom, or buy [...]

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Advice for girls in science & the meritocracy

October 5, 2008

Advice for a girl.. One of the students in my Adopt a Physicist class just asked me: Hi! Lately I’ve had to think about what I want a career in and what I would like to study in college. The two choices that have always interested me most are either being a physician or an [...]

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Whack a Stack

October 3, 2008

Needing to teach Newton’s Laws?  Don Rathjen, staff educator at the Exploratorium, has been teaching mechanics to students for over 20 years.  This one’s an old favorite — a noisy activity with wood flying everywhere.  You can listen to Don demonstrate how to teach the activity (and geekgirl has some fun with it too) on [...]

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Beautiful slime molds

October 2, 2008

Several amazing photos of slime mold. Gorgeous! Slime and mold are two words guaranteed to send a shiver down many a spine. However, plasmodial slime molds, fungus – like organisms with about eight hundred and fifty species worldwide – possess a strange beauty that you might not expect. Come and take a look at a [...]

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Magnetic silverware in restaurants

October 2, 2008

Regarding magnetic “silverware” in restaurants from NPR’s Car talk (week of 9/22) PUZZLER: A Magnetizing Dinner Chez Magliozzi Over dinner, Ray’s wife notices that her knife and fork are stuck to each other, her knife was magnetized. Ray’s son’s knife was magnetized too, but the polarity was the reverse of her’s. Ray’s niece offers an [...]

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Blogs are rolling all over us

October 2, 2008

Here’s some link love for the last few weeks… Ms. Ouellette has a delightfully morbid post about preserving corpses (including those from the Body World exhibit) over at Cocktail Party Physics. If you’ve got a morbid streak (like I do), here’s also my little post about the science of death (which, not surprisingly, refers to [...]

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