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A reminder to AP Biology teachers


17 February 13 10:44 AM
We're knee-deep in molecular genetics now in AP Biology--and it's not your father's biology anymore, or even your older sister's. She only had to contend with mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA. Created by WGScott , shared under CC The biology world has exploded with Read More...
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What do you care to know about the world?


26 July 12 10:13 AM
Teaching matters. We owe it to our children to get it right. What do you care to know about the world? There's a place for what used to be called boredom, for empty spaces to slide into your mind. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it lacks the dopamine Read More...
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A story about basil


21 May 12 07:06 PM
And she forgot the stars, the moon and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze; She had no knowledge when the day was done, And the new morn she saw not: but in peace Read More...
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What we risk losing


20 May 12 09:21 AM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best Read More...
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Distracted


31 March 12 05:31 PM
I lost a friend this week, a strong woman who once jumped out of airplanes to fight forest fires, and lost her fight with some vagrant cells after a long, long battle. None of us are permanent, of course, a flippant statement when one is healthy. She's Read More...
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Siemen's STEM Institute: A Luddite Wants In


06 February 12 07:36 PM
I would like very much to go to the Siemen's STEM Institute this summer, though after today, I'm not sure they'd welcome me in their midst. I've spent hours wrestling with a Flip camera , MS Movie Maker, and and apparent conflict between the chip set Read More...
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Imbolc


01 February 12 08:33 PM
An Cailleach Bhearra wandered around back in the 10th century in western Ireland, eating "seaweed, salmon, and wild garlic" (my kind of woman), looking for firewood. If the day was bright and sunny, beware--she had gathered plenty of wood and was set Read More...
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Truth


28 January 12 08:50 PM
A drum found on the edge of the Delaware Bay. Grace God, I know nothing, my sense is all nonsense, And fear of You begins intelligence; Does it end there? For sexual love, for food, For books and birch trees I claim gratitude, But when I grieve over the Read More...
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Breathing biology


23 January 12 07:36 PM
We got beans growing in our classroom. Three gorgeous rattlesnake pods hanging from a vine, the soft purple puff of a flower between the second and third bean. Most of the stuff that makes up these beans is carbon dioxide, much of it from the breath of Read More...
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A scatalogical myth


18 January 12 07:11 PM
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 3:19 KJV I teach high school biology. I happen to love teaching, and I enjoy Read More...
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National Canine Latin Barking assessments


11 January 12 09:00 PM
While immersed in the Krebs cycle in mid-January, pushing biochemical pathways on sophomores who have yet to learn chemistry, I marvel at their persistence, trying to grasp what I know they cannot, but I ask them to do it anyway. (There is something unethical Read More...
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Card carrying member of The Anti-Anthropomorphizing League of Rational Thinkers


01 January 12 05:46 PM
A repost. Hey, it's my blog.. . In Galway Bay, nestled on the west coast of Ireland, lives Fungi, a lone male dolphin who seeks the company of humans, as he has for over a quarter century now. He's a tourist attraction, and an enigma. No one knows why Read More...
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A late December walk


29 December 11 06:51 PM
'Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor, The watery shore, Is given thee till the break of day.' William Blake Today is the last day of the darkest two weeks of the year, the shadows stretched long on the beach like languid lovers Read More...
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Late December oyster


29 December 11 10:08 AM
What is the lifespan of Crassostrea viginica , our local oyster? What is its maximum size? The experts will tell you it gets to 20 years old, and about 8" long. I found the shell of one 3 years ago today that just misses 9 inches. Its shell tells a story Read More...
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Catechism in the classroom


17 December 11 08:59 AM
I have a lovely cross-section of an ash tree in class, about an inch thick and almost two feet wide. It makes a great sound when I rap it with my knuckle, its heft is just right, and it still smells great. Bored students count its rings, so I know it Read More...
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