I'm at the Ecological Society meeting this week, where we're doing a big introduction of our SimUText Ecology chapters. In the cracks I've been going …
Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Hop
Transitional fossils offer tangible evidence of evolution. Examples include feathered dinosaurs, tetrapod-like fish, and the pterosaur I described in …
Home Computers Increase the Digital Divide
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 …
Help Study Mendelian Pigs
We use research to help design our virtual laboratories. Some studies we do on our own, but for many we need help from faculty willing to try a lab in …
Male Antelope Lie To Get Sex
Earlier I mentioned examples of critters that lie to get what they want. Last week in American Naturalist Jakob Bro-Jørgensen and Wiline M. Pangle …
Octopus Aces Physics Homework
Here's a question from my daughter's physics homework. A balloon with a weight tied to it just barely floats. If the balloon is pushed down under the …
