The Fischbowl

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded today. I heard this story on NPR ( more info ) this morning and one line at the end struck me: A...

Dear Denver Post, While I’ve sometimes questioned your overall commitment to education, your columnists and editorials frequently stress...

Via ReadWriteWeb comes this story from Nature that any scientist that submits an article to the journal RNA Biology for their new section ...

We are currently teaching the evolution unit in Biology at my school and I wanted to share a couple of interesting changes one teacher made ...

I blogged about Free Rice previously , a website where students (or anyone) can practice building their vocabulary and at the same time dona...

Just a quick post to update you on Brian Hatak's AHS Chemistry Podcasts that I blogged about previously . Some of the technological issu...

One of the many interesting discussions in our staff development efforts revolved around the idea that many of the changes we've been di...

I shared this link with my science teachers a week or two ago because I thought it had some cool pictures of the new Large Hadron Collider ...

I first ran across the idea of podcasting Chemistry lectures about three years ago. Jean-Claude Bradley at Drexel University posted this: A...

I get a lot of email. Even before this blog and that darned Presentation That Shall Not Be Named , I got a lot of email because I'm the ...

I first posted about the Encylopedia of Life last May, now they have their first 30,000 pages up. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growi...

Thanks to Chris Lehmann and Will Richardson , I came across this video (well, actually, multiple videos). As Chris said, "This is one...

In the spirit of my last post , here's a chance to have your students work on their vocabulary (English) and fight world hunger at the s...

What do you do when you have a lot of data and not enough personnel and time to analyze it? Well, you outsource it of course. In this case, ...

1. Watch this embedded video (4:00). 2. Consider watching this TED video of E.O. Wilson (22:35). 3. Take a look at the FAQ's for the En...