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Time Again To Help Out Public Science Classrooms In Need!
Where did the year go? Here we are at another Ada Lovelace Day celebrating women scientists, technologists and engineers everywhere. A perfect day to start another annual DonorsChoose campaign to...
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Attrition Is Too Nice A Word
Mass wasting is more like it. NOLADishu points me to a presentation given by Shell’s Donal Rajasingam at this year’s Tulane Engineering Fair. Within a pretty good collection of statistics on...
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Huh. Slate: Leading Environmental Activist’s Blunt Confession: I Was Completely Wrong To Oppose GMOs So I guess you’ll be wondering—what happened between 1995 and now that made me not only change my...
View ArticleOn Statistics, Risk vs. Uncertainty and Science Methods
Mean vs. Median: A runner friend posted this last night in that social media space which must not be named: “Just read that Americans average 4000 calories per day. Mind boggled. Also really want to...
View Article6000-Year-Old Texas
Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board...
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Science Online: Information Sharing First; The Medium Is Not The Message
Recently, several geobloggers brought up an excellent point on science communication: Now that it has been established that researchers need to do more outreach to share their work, HOW? The barriers...
View ArticleOn An Hour Of Code
and how it is going to get us precisely nowhere. President Obama wants Americans to learn how To Code [Washington Post] You’d think a person who spends most of her waking hours on a computer hammering...
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We made 2020. How do we make the future from here?
Advice for the young at heartSoon we will be olderWhen we gonna make it work? * We are in the fourteenth week of a quarantine or some kind of COVID-time physical and social limitation,into three...
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Open, Equitable and Accountable: From Conflictive Stagnation to Collective...
Crossroads, by Adam Meek Two weeks ago, I held virtual office hours for those recently out of work and/or seeking career reinvention. It was an apt culmination to a year of public talks, online...
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Galaxy Gazing from a Burning Earth
Evidently it takes us successfully placing a space telescope a million miles from Earth to write here for the first time since January 2, 2021. I’ve been short-form writing elsewhere, but let’s face...
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