And the Envelope, Please!

John RoachI have always been a reader and look forward to my lunch hour as much for the chance to open a book as for the chance to catch a bite. Today, it was Richard Russo’s Bridge of Sighs, a coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York.

Group Theory

SimBiotic President Eli MeirThere was an interesting news item in the October 9 edition of Nature about applying group theory to scientific authorship by

A Meeting in Memphis

SimonA few of us here from SimBioLand recently attended the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) annual conference in Memphis, Tennessee - a meeting that we’ve been regulars at for a few years now.

Should Students With Poor Grades Go to College?

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a kind of backlash opinion piece by Marty Nemko, author and former guidance counselor, arguing that lots of students in four year colleges really sh