My fellow teachers, don't stress too much, but summer is about to end. There, I said it. Even though my real focus is labor and work, I really like to read about science.
And not just read. For months, I've been posting about science, including my weekly Sunday Science fun posts. This past Sunday, rserven on Daily Kos suggested I put together a list of past posts as a resource for science teachers.
Here are titles and links that will lead to more links.
Sunday Science Fun - Extremophiles
Critters that looooove extreme conditions.
Sunday Science Fun - All Shook Up
Temblors, events, earthquakes.
Sunday Science Fun - Savage Minds, Tasmanian Tigers, Digimorph
The Tasmanian Tigers are so cool - not to say the rest isn't. And there are wetas!
Sunday Science Fun - Simpsons' Math and Tibet
Women and Math Take that Larry Summers. I bet he didn't know that Dr. Sarah Greenwald maintains a SimpsonsMath website - which includes Girls Just Want to Have Sums and more links on women and math.
Sunday Science Fun - Maps to Inconvenient Truths and WMDs
Sunday Science Fun - Sunday Science Fun - Of Kiwis, Chopsticks, Thai Food, and Faces
Yes, there is an ecology of chopsticks, in particular disposable chopsticks.
Sunday Science - Pests, Bugs . . . and more
Us against the world. That's how it's always been. So check out the invasive species in your neighborhood, and I don't mean just the annoying people next door.
An Inconvenient Truth: Seen the Film? Now See the Sources
Sunday Science Fun - Life was better in the '50's
Want to relive those great years back when we all liked Ike? Who doesn't?
Sunday Science Fun - Let's get away from it all - and dealing with fallacious arguments
OK, almost all. Life wasn't necessarily that great even 450,000 years before Karl Rove was a gleam in his daddy's eye. But if you want to see a pretty neat site about a cave where homo erectus lived as long ago as 700,000 years ago, this is really it.
Sunday Science Fun - How About Them Worms?
If c. elegans is your worm, this site is for you.
Sunday Science Fun - Inconvenient Truths
For those of us who have seen An Inconvenient Truth or one of Al Gore's lectures on the subject, we have to be concerned about how our stressed environment will provide food. Take a look at Plant Stress.
Who is missing?
The People's Archive.
Its purpose is to film "for posterity the life stories of the great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time. The people whose stories you watch on this site are leaders of their field, whose work has influenced and changed our world as we know it."
There's just one thing missing . . . see if you notice it.
Sunday Science Fun - Put on Your Tinfoil Hat
And what can be more tinfoilish than the myth that people have landed on the moon? There is a website that has the photos and the explanations to debunk the claim that Apollo 16 was shot on a backlot somewhere, as well as other space-related conspiracy theories.
Sunday Science Fun - Today is mostly about our brains
Ever wonder:
1. Why do I say so many stupid things when I am drunk?
2. Why do I make myself sick, instead of just strangling my boss?
3. Why can I remember exactly what I was doing the morning of September 11, 2001 (or the day that JFK was assassinated)?
How Are You Prejudiced
Want to find out whether you are prejudiced? Have I got a test for you.
Sick at Work? It's worse than you think
We get heaps of data and studies released every day. Data and study affect policy decisions and our understanding of our world. When done right, data get us beyond our limited experience and provide the big picture. But what if it is wrong on an issue of critical importance?
Hearing the Mice Sing - Science, Race, and Gender
Sunday fun
Today there's music, global warming, evolution, and more. Missed the March 29 eclipse? Well, you can relive it all over again for the first time here - complete with video.
The Daily Show Effect
A new study out on the impact fake news shows on political involvement.
Sunday fun
Why wait till the extended? Whet your appetite by diving into a site with mysterious sounds. Or how about links to NOAA information on weather and climate. More below, including a caffeine-based clone of Drinking Liberally. Does that make it a coffee cat?
Sunday fun
If the weather's not so good this Sunday, how about a trip to the IEEE Virtual Museum?
Disaster / Pandemic Weak Links
Release your inner hypochondriac II - Bird Flu
Sunday fun
Ready for some 3-D? At the 3d Museum, you can rotate and zoom in on 3-D scans of faossils and living animals.
Sunday fun . . . and not so fun plus some interesting links
Sunday. Taxes done? Not with family or friends on a holiday? Time to kill? Here are a few links with a science and education focus. Some for fun, some to make you be informed and afraid.
This is for the birds . . . mainly
This is really for the birds. Where I sit it is late winter. Birds are starting to return. A pair of doves is even building a nest near my window. But with the windows shut to keep out the cold and the sparse number of birds, I can't hear them. If you also are missing hearing birds, you can use this site to listen to calls, the dawn chorus, and talking birds, and so much more.
From Dover to Red Hill
Just 94 miles from Dover, Pennsylvania - Creationism Central - lies Red Hill - Evolution Central. Red Hill is one of the most important sites in the world for artifacts from the Devonian Age, the era of fishes.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Today's war on abortion rights and homosexuals is nothing new. It happened before, but then it was Nazi medicine
Pahoehoe anyone?
I admit it. I have this thing for volcanoes. One of my biggest disappoints was being in New Zealand when Mt. Ruapehu was spewing and not being able to get to the area. When I flew from Hamilton to Wellington, I had mixed feelings when the plane gave the central volcanic plateau a wide berth.
Is There a Bio-Ethicist in the House?
How often have you needed a bio-ethicist, yet found the yellow pages sadly lacking? Fret no more. Now there is the UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory. They provide bio-ethics information, experts, and more.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), is holding its annual meeting this week. There are more than 200 symposia, plenary lectures, topical lectures, seminars, presidential tracks and other sessions.
That means lots of breaking reports in a wide range of areas - evolution, child care, climate change, the environment, and much more.
For example,
Caregivers hide actions to enhance careers
Organic diets lower children's exposure to two common pesticides
Penn bioethics researcher gives talk on the neuroscience of ethics at AAAS Meeting
OK, it's Monday. Back to business everyone. And for most of us that means paying attention to what counts. So here's a little help for you.
A few years back I had the opportunity to chat up a JPL manager. I, of course, had to mention the unfortunate - and embarrassing - episode of the Mars Climate Orbiter crash. Yes, embarrassing. It seems that one team was using English / American units (inches, feet and pounds) - while the other was using metric units for the final phase of landing.
If only they had had a handy unit convertor. Now you can have what the JPL didn't have.
This is for the geeks among us (me included) who are just loving what science can uncover these days. Yes, we are the folks who just a few months ago invited you to release your inner hypochondriac. Read on for links on a new human gene project and what it can mean for your health.
Post-Doctorates of the World Arise!
Are US post-docs humming the Internationale while they work?
Powers of 10
Want a few minutes of fun on the computer and very cool visuals? FSU has just the thing for you.
Cat got your mind?
Maybe not your cat, but perhaps the parasites your cat carries. Many cats carry Toxoplasma gondii, and the parasite can easily be transferred to humans. Half of humans are infected with Toxoplasma. Harmless? No symptoms? Perhaps. Or just maybe not.
Talking Liberally - About Statistics
Over the next few weeks - and perhaps even over the last weekend - you will be having troubling and annoying conversations as you are caught up in the whirlwind of holiday parties and family get-togethers.
Release your inner hypochondriac
Avian influenza, H5N1, SARS, bubonic plague. Not so long ago hypochondriacs had to work so much harder to at being obsessed with disease. Now the news is all pandemics all the time. But at a certain point the newspaper (in paper or pixel) is just not enough.
Next Sunday Science Fun - Where in the World? Extreme Geography.
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