Guest Post: bridging the work-skills gap
Anna Trainer and I share the love for Brontosauruses. Specifically, of Brian Switek’s “My Beloved Brontosaur“: it was during one of Switek’s readings that I first met Anna. We continued to bump into...
View ArticleSci-Ed present at Scio14
Tomorrow, Sci-Ed team members Cristina and John start their journey to attend Science Online 2014. The conference starts on the 27th and is packed with science communication topics (in fact, there are...
View ArticleNo time for coats: Jupiter is outside.
I only noticed the cold after my fingers had stopped responding. I wasn’t able to press the camera shutter button any longer. In that 20 degrees F night, I was standing in the sidewalk with Science...
View ArticleGuest Post: The NBA family tree
Here in Sci-Ed we like to link science with popular topics, so we can draw in some more resistant learners. Atif posted about NHL Hockey for teaching statistics, and I wrote about NFL football...
View ArticleSci-Ed joins Lemur Week (video)
Their ghostly eyes are lovely windows to their souls. Lemurs are primates – they have long tails, tree-climbing hands, and incredible curiosity. At least that’s what I encountered on my visit to the...
View ArticleDo lemurs like to move it-move it? (video)
Lemurs had their 15 minutes of fame, back when DreamWork’s Madagascar came out in 2005. This year it’s time for IMAX Island of Lemurs: Madagascar to shine a spotlight on this primates. We discussed...
View ArticleSay Hello to the Nation’s T-rex
“Anyone here doesn’t like T-rex?” No hands were raised, but the packed auditorium welcomed Jack Horner with laughter and enthusiasm. The paleontologist climbed into the Smithsonian stage, and with...
View ArticleGuest post: Interpreting Lemurs
Chris Smith was one of the first people I met in Raleigh. He showed up at the hotel in a big van, carrying a clipboard with a list of 20 names. Chris and I had been talking before. We had … Continue...
View ArticleGuest post: Summer research programs offer a window to academic careers
To remove the cobwebs on this Sci-Ed blog, we welcome new poster Yoo Jung Kim, a recent Biology graduate of Dartmouth College and a post-baccalaureate research fellow at NIH’s National Human Genome...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Nobel’s Might-Have-Beens
Our contributor and illustrator Yoo Jung Kim is already back with more! Last week, James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, auctioned his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for $4.7...
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