February 27, 2009
A recent volume of Science News had a feature article about attraction and the evolutionary basis of our conception of what makes someone beautiful. As writer Elizabeth Quill says (I love this quote) — “For humans, there is osmething captivating and unforgettable about the arrangement of two balls, a point and a horizontal slide on [...]
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January 10, 2009
In this week’s episode of Science Teaching Tips, we look at my favorite thing — light. Light, like, rulez. Dude. And so does my old mentor, Paul Doherty, who will tell you one of his best stories from the history of science about how the spectrum came to be the spectrum. I mean, what the [...]
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