Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
It’s Parent/Teacher night – you may know it as teacher feedback, parent/teacher conferences. They’re all pretty much the same. I get a list of dozens of students names the day before. I take masses of journals and files down with me to a hall, get given a badge, find a table with my name plaque [...]
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Welcome to the beginning of 2009 and the Guide to Postgraduate study at Praxis! Sometimes it’ll appear to be a carnival about careers in academia; sometimes it’ll seem like life lessons and the way your scholastic endeavors change your world and others. Here, the experts investigate, interrogate and enlighten with their wit and wisdom – [...]
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Sheesh, maybe they should do some reading instead: UPI.com: Officers said they caught the four teenagers, ranging from 13 to 15 years old, crawling out of a Stripling Middle School window with backpacks, pillows and blankets about 1 a.m. Sunday, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday. The teenagers, who were taken to a juvenile detention [...]
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New articles out – that mention a range of states! ‘Just think: it’s important’ in the Sydney Morning Herald: …A former physics teacher, Mr. Ellerton introduced the philosophy and critical thinking program to Calamvale after joining a network of Queensland teachers which promotes and spreads the teaching of philosophy in high schools throughout the state. [...]
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I was going to just pop this into the miniblog… but it got me thinking beyond the subject it talks about: teaching evolution in modern times and changes made to the education system in Florida to cater for this. Besides, I have about three hours to kill whilst sitting here at Gatwick airport, and I [...]
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I’m heading out tonight for a Science Week event with some friends (and really very glad about the opportunity – after being on the road for qualitative research in the north of the state, I thought that I’d miss everything that was going on) – here’s a teaser before I write a review: National Science [...]
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Yes, I’m certain you have, as I have been, following Science Women’s blog after PZ ‘Pharyngula’ Myers pointed out that she’s live-blogging the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Two things that get to me: First – like her, I look forward to the day when nobody notices that there is either girls (or boys) [...]
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Although I question the concept of luck, I am more than willing to say that there is such a thing as a beautiful coincidence. I noticed the science blog on WordPress called Mon@rch’s Nature Blog has a lovely picture of a bird called the Osprey. It also contains a very detailed discussion of the dynamics [...]
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