I love bacon. I can’t help it. It hasn’t yet reached the level of an addiction; however, I have found that I sometimes spend a little too long in the bacon aisle at the grocery store. Nevertheless, I’ve always been told that the secret to life is to find something you truly love and...
It always amazes me to see so many people think they need expensive equipment to teach the basics of science. Did Newton need a digital scale to study the effect of gravity? Did Einstein use a telescope to study the relationship between light and the planets? I’m afraid not. Most of the historical giants...
I knew I was in for trouble the minute I looked at the schedule. The curriculum I had been provided for my eighth-grade science classroom contained rocks and minerals, astronomy, chemistry, and (drumroll please) human reproduction. I was doomed. My first instinct was to run as fast and far away from this place as...
Let’s face it, science is rooted in communication. If scientists could not work together to share their ideas or discoveries, the fields of science would slow down to a crawl. But how do we encourage young scientists to share their knowledge and discoveries with the world and still provide a safe internet environment? I...