The release of the iPad from Apple this week has people talking about the death of textbooks and how this new platform will revolutionize education. I …
How to Learn Physics Through iPhone Games
Following the herd, I bought myself an iphone a couple summers ago to see what all the fuss was about. And like many others, mine has become a game …
Great Teaching vs. Great Teaching Techniques
An article on math teaching by mathematician and teacher Paul Lockhart has gone viral on the net and reached me recently. In his "Mathematician's …
Using Natural Selection to Evolve Better Gene Therapy
In my last post, I wrote about virologists using directed evolution to produce viruses that fight cancer. Another nice example of evolution being …
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Harnessing Evolution To Fight Cancer
If we can control evolution well enough to turn wolves into poodles, why can't we use the same method to turn viruses into magic bullets for cancer? …
Teaching Evolution With a Variety of Methods
As Eli Meir has discussed, one of the take-home messages of our research on teaching natural selection is that students can benefit from repeated …
Evolutionary Biologists Track a Creepy Dog Disease
Among the useful things I learned while teaching high school many years ago were two sure-fire strategies guaranteed to get the attention of any …
Group Theory
There was an interesting news item in the October 9 edition of Nature about applying group theory to scientific authorship by John Whitfield. …
Cool Projects at NSF’s CCLI Meeting
Three weeks ago now (swish, there goes the time) I was at the CCLI conference sponsored by NSF for projects that have received funding from their …
