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The electric slide


18 February 12 09:32 AM
I occasionally borrow a hand-cranked generator from the physics folks a floor below. It's a very simple device, exquisitely crafted by someone likely dead now. It should work well for another hundred years. It's simple, and makes the concept of "generating" Read More...
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What ales us


29 November 10 06:50 PM
"Because when you’re set in your ways, you stay true to yourself." Coors commercial I'll give the wealthy Coors family this much. They've managed to sum up the crisis in education, in our culture, and in our experiment in democracy in a succinct piece Read More...
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Diffuson confusion


18 November 10 07:26 PM
I used to be able to "teach" the concept of diffusion in less than two periods. I threw in the sucrose solution in dialysis tubing demo, its slowly increasing turgidity eliciting giggles from my larval humans. I even tossed in fart jokes. Now it takes Read More...
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Melomel, cosmos, and teaching biology


16 October 10 05:21 PM
Yes, I know, same old same old...I write for Leslie. When I walk, I walk with Leslie. When I eat, I eat with Leslie. When I sleep, I sleep with Leslie. When I share melomel, I share it with Leslie. This morning I watched a couple of bees trying to suck Read More...
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On ignorance


07 August 10 05:56 PM
The sun slips toward the water. The breeze brings with it the thump-thump-thump of a karaoke box from Harpoon Henry's , a shore joint just over the dune. We barely here it over the waves, but we hear it. I wandered into the muddy bay, up to my waist. Read More...
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