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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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Food is not energy


22 January 12 08:36 AM
A response to a response to my last post--NASA, food is not energy. Language matters, especially to young children trying to make sense of the world. I remember being utterly confused as a child thinking that Karl and Groucho were the same guy--how dangerous Read More...
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Open letter to elementary school teachers everywhere


21 January 12 06:38 PM
Dear Elementary School Teachers and Principals, I know you have an impossible job, and I know you're getting hammered from 73 different angles, and I know the last person you need to hear from is another high school teacher sitting on his throne blaming 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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Seeing thro' the eye...


12 January 12 09:18 PM
We are led to believe a lie When we see not thro' the eye, Which was born in a night to perish in a night, When the soul slept in beams of light. William Blake I found the light above after it passed through the multiple lenses of a horseshoe crab that 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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Oh, dear, New Hampshire, too?


09 January 12 09:32 PM
"I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It's a worldview and it's godless....Columbine, remember that? They were believers in evolution. That's evidence right there." Rep. Jerry Bergevin, New Hampshire Read More...
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Clamming: a 21st century skill


08 January 12 09:57 AM
19th century version: Yesterday I headed for one of my favorite places with one of my favorite people to do one of my favorite things--clamming. The moon is waxing and near full, so I knew low tide would fall in the early afternoon. COST: months of intermittent Read More...
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It's called biology for a reason


05 January 12 09:08 PM
I'm a pretty good teacher--I can train a young H. sapiens to recite the Calvin cycle in such a way that everyone, including the young H. sapiens , believes that she actually knows something. That same young H. sapiens can graduate high school without Read More...
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Watch the wheels....


03 January 12 08:24 PM
I've ridden motorcycles on and off (always better on than off) for over thirty years. While a few things are annoying--bugs in the teeth, bits of rotting roadkill kicked up by a car, the unexpected downpour--the joys far outweigh the negatives. The one 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 science teacher's resolutions


01 January 12 11:09 AM
Say a prayer every morning honoring a mystery. A prayer for light, for life, for gravity, for cosmic rays, for the source of water. I pretend I know nothing. I want to know what knowing nothing really means. Remind myself every morning, when I wake up, Read More...
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Faith based science


30 December 11 09:36 AM
Everywhere I look I see signs of spontaneous generation. Scum blooms in a puddle of water, flies erupt from a wintry beach, and I once found a possum carcass writhing with maggots obviously emanating from its flesh. We see this, but we all know that spontaneous 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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A shore thing


29 December 11 11:24 AM
Late December, the back bay, still autumn-warm, gets blown up the beach by the stiff breeze, and washes my feet. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." TSE A shell on the beach, once alive, now falls apart Read More...
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