Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Danica McKellar exclusive for Scienceblogs [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  Tara of Aetiology, after reviewing Danica McKellar's book "Math Doesn't Suck", posted an exclusive blog interview with Danica, which you can (and should) read here. Read the comments on this post...

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• A cynical take on a study about high school science [Galactic Interactions]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Science Education Amp Outreach

  students perform in all science disciplines in college, whereas studying one science in high school doesn't help their performance in other science disciplines in college. There are a few conclusions that are drawn. The article quotes people who suggest that the "Physics First" movement— that argues Physics should be taught first,

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• Cool science of cooling [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  How do air-conditioners and refrigerators work? Scientific explanations for this can be cranky or patient. You choose. Read the comments on this post...

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• A visit to the galaxy zoo [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  this from the Washington Science Teachers Assocation. Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are looking for your help in sorting out different galaxies. It's a cool opportunity for anyone to go where few non-astronomers have gone before and help do real science at the same time. What does this involve? Go to the Galaxy Zoo,

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• The Deep Voice Gas - Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6)

  Published: August 4, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Science Education

  WackyPack Meal and got your Science Book!!! I did all of the experiments in class for my teacher and classmates. I am so glad that I can purchase some of your science kit items at Hobby Lobby too. I love buying them and showing my friends! Thanks for all you do for kids and teachers. My teacher told me that I should tell you about winning

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• New phds.org job board

  Published: August 4, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  Convention Thousands of science teachers found their way to St. Louis for the 2007 National Science Teachers Association convention, and we wanted to make sure they had something to take back to their students. So, we loaded our trucks with experiments and products from the website along with 5,000 rolls of MENTOS stuffed into plastic test

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• Water Flowing Uphill?

  Published: August 5, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Science Education

  he was starting yet another science […] I met Harry Lee when he was 12 years old and made a trip to Colorado. I invited Harry and his sister, Alexandra, to be my guest on our weekly television segment on KUSA-TV doing one of his favorite experiments. Harry recently relocated to Australia and told me that he was starting yet another

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• Geyser Tube Toy Helps Set New Mentos Geyser World Record

  Published: August 5, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  WackyPack Meal and got your Science Book!!! I did all of the experiments in class for my teacher and classmates. I am so glad that I can purchase some of your science kit items at Hobby Lobby too. I love buying them and showing my friends! Thanks for all you do for kids and teachers. My teacher told me that I should tell you about winning

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• The Importance of Communication Skills in Science

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:00 am

  Tags: Science Education

  of Communication Skills in Science 500 Soda Geysers at NSTA Convention Thousands of science teachers found their way to St. Louis for the 2007 National Science Teachers Association convention, and we wanted to make sure they had something to take back to their students. So, we loaded our trucks with experiments and products from the website

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• Inherit the Wind still relevant

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:33 am

  Tags: Anti Science, Courts, Entanglement, Media, Myths, Politics, Church State, Creationism, Epperson V Arkansas, Film, History, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Science Education, The Scopes Monkey Trial

  I caught the 1960 version of "Inherit the Wind" which starred Fredric March and Spencer Tracy on TCM this weekend. I always liked the film because it was based on the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" where a school teacher was put on trial for teaching Evolution. At the time state law forbade the... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for

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• Intelligent Design people are back with a brand new bag

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:44 am

  Tags: Anti Science, Entanglement, Groups, Lies, Media, Myths, Politics, Church State, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Science Education

  After the Dover, PA smack down when on December 20, 2005, Judge John E. Jones III, in The United States District Court For The Middle District Of Pennsylvania, ruled that the Dover District School Board violated the US Constitution when they changed the 9th grade Biology curriculum to include... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for

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• Overwhelmed by information? [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:14 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  Bertalan Mesk shares his strategies for keeping up and gives instructions so you can do the same. He shows how you can save your favorite PubMed searches and have NCBI send you e-mails about new papers. He describes some third party PubMed tools that make pretty graphs. Last, he discusses RSS readers, Connotea, and BioWizard. It's all very

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• A high school at the zoo! [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: September 8, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  of their classes in science, English, mathematics and social studies. Students become actively involved in learning through problem solving and using the zoo as their classroom." "AHS Zoo School teachers collaborate with N.C. Zoo educators and other zoo staff to allow students to experience science on a daily basis." "The AHS Zoo

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• Student Science Blogging, Part II [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: September 14, 2007, 8:59 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  teachers and students to the Science Blogging Conference - Asheboro is barely an hour away from RTP. There, they can schmooze with other students, scientists, science blogging stars, publishers, science teachers, science writers and journalists and participate in all the sessions, including the two education-focused sessions, the first about

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• Student Science Blogging, Part I [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: September 14, 2007, 8:19 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  indeed, it will be his Neuroscience students who will be guest-blogging this semester. And today, they started. They were thrown into a lions' den, but they are doing great, holding their own against the famously ruthless Pharynguloids who call them 'kids' and then slam them anyway in many, many comments (they are all among the 'most active

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