From Hypatia of Alexandria to Katherine Hayhoe, women have made and continue to make important contributions to the physical sciences. Now, you can get the “Notable Women in the Physical Sciences
Here’s the deal. Continue reading The Ultimate Science Stocking Stuffer, Also Fights the Patriarchy!
Which is worse, being in the basement of a low-lying Nuclear Power Plant during a Tsunami, pulling the trigger on a gun you thought was empty and accidentally killing your 4 year old little sister, being hit by a German Satellite, or being eaten by a shark?
Before answering that question, I’d like to remind you that you need to go here and donate ten or twenty bucks to the Donors Choose program. Then, when you come back, you can read the rest of this post.
Continue reading Fallacy: Something Else is Worse, so Don’t Worry
If your answer is “yes” than you need to update your meds.
Continue reading Could you sustain the energy level required to be a teacher?
I am fed up with people’s unending numb-skull suggestions on education reform, and I’m about to offend some people in that regard.
Check your twitter feed, your facebook streams, your other snorking tools over a period of time and you’ll see the occasional comment on either what is wrong with our system of education, or what can be done to fix some problem or another. If you’ve got nothing along these lines in your recent snorking streams, try an experiment: Put up a facebook post, or send out to the twittosphere a tweet that brings up something about the education system. With that bait, you’ll see what is annoying me.
Continue reading I am fed up with all this talk about education reform. Coming from you.
It is the first or second week of class in most US schools, and this is when students, parents, and teachers find out what’s new. One of the things being added in schools around the country this year, as has been the case several years running, is the requirement that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited in class every morning, or in some cases, weekly. You can work against letting this happen in your local school.
Continue reading Demand that the Pledge of Allegiance Not Be Recited in Your Local School