Computing is becoming ubiquitous in education, College students need to have a computer and many K-12 schools are starting to hand them out to …
How The Gray Wolf Turned Black
My previous post concerned an apparently beneficial genetic variant, common in modern humans, that some researchers suspect we picked up via sex with …
Sex, Microcephalin, and Neanderthals
The publication last month of a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome stoked quite a bit of excitement, much of it over the question of whether …
Scientific Collaboration at Different Scales
Science is becoming more collaborative over time, and one trend in science education is to try and reflect that cultural change in the classroom. An …