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Science: Add Humor and Stir – Wocka, Wocka, Wocka!
Laughter can be a joyous shortcut between people. It's relaxing, and a playful way to engage our minds. Science, on the other hand, can be tough to explain and digest. Traditional methods can be hard-going. So many of us reach for humor when we talk science. Comedy makes things accessible. Except, of course, when it [...]Keep reading »
Vulnerability as strength: Thoughts on changing medicine's hidden curriculum (Guest Post)
February 19th, 2014 | 6
Guest post by Michelle Munyikwa I recently read this article in Health Affairs regarding the effects of the hidden curriculum on patient safety and, in my usual fashion, have been thinking about it ever since. Dr Joshua Liao describes an experience he had as a medical student on labor and delivery, when the dynamics of [...]Keep reading »
"How is it that life gets under our skin?" Introducing Michelle Munyikwa
There don't seem to be all that many PhD anthropologists who are also physicians. It's a long, daunting road to get there: 12 years of study to be exact. Counting her Bachelor of Science, Michelle Munyikwa has passed the halfway mark. Why she is deeply committed to this onerous dual track is as fascinating as [...]Keep reading »
Motivated reasoning: Fuel for controversies, conspiracy theories and science denialism alike
October 14th, 2013 | 55
Pieces of information, disputed and not, can be woven very quickly into competing explanatory narratives. Press the right buttons, then it can be lightning fast to order them into a line leading to this or that logical conclusion. Those narratives can cause feuds that won't quit and entrenched positions of extreme certitude from which people [...]Keep reading »
"Trust me, I'm a professor!" Evidence, medical schools & students
There are just so many young people here. I'm at the 21st birthday meeting of an organization I got to help build, the Cochrane Collaboration. More about that later. But the young people are the most striking phenomenon. They're tweeting up a storm, of course. They're bringing a blast of energy, enthusiasm, idealism and cutting [...]Keep reading »
What will the future of education look like?
August 6th, 2014 | 3
Scientific American's August supplement takes a look at the changing landscape of education in the face of emerging technology, and asks the question, how do we increase interest and engagement in STEM initiatives? Learning in the Digital Age tackles issues of using big data to better understand students, the validity of online courses, and the [...]Keep reading »
Editor's Selections: More on Syphilis, Education in India, and Classifying Things in Archaeology
Part of my online life includes editorial duties at ResearchBlogging.org, where I serve as the Social Sciences Editor. Each Thursday, I pick notable posts on research in anthropology, philosophy, social science, and research to share on the ResearchBlogging.org News site. To help highlight this writing, I also share my selections here on AiP. This week [...]Keep reading »
AiP's DonorsChoose Picks: George Orwell, Frederick Douglass, Jared Diamond, & Digital Recorders Needed
October 20th, 2011 | 3
The Science Writers for Students DonorsChoose Drive is almost over! The drive ends on Saturday and I'm hoping that we can fund at least one of the social science requests for a classroom in need. Thanks so much to Janet, Kate, and Emily, who have contributed to projects so far! Your support is greatly appreciated. [...]Keep reading »
Portrait of a Neighborhood Science Program
October 12th, 2011 | 1
New York's World Maker Faire helped spur a fantastic discussion on innovation in STEM education, highlighting the importance of partnerships that include educational institutions, communities, and private entities to ensure the broadest impact possible. I'm delighted to share that Cognizant's Making the Future has been in touch with Teach2Learn in Boston and I'm hopeful that [...]Keep reading »
#NYCSciTweetUp and The Story Collider Together—TOMORROW!
Tomorrow the #NYCSciTweetUp and The Story Collider will partner for an evening of science, stories, and beer! The Story Collider invites people to share the roles that science has played in their lives. From humble beginnings like the #NYCSciTweetUp, The Story Collider has grown immensely, attracting a diverse showing that highlights the broad, and sometimes [...]Keep reading »
Reminder: #NYCSciTweetUp and The Story Collider Together Next Week
It's almost time! Will you be there? Next Tuesday, the #NYCSciTweetUp and The Story Collider will partner for an evening of science, stories, and beer! The Story Collider invites people to share the roles that science has played in their lives. From humble beginnings like the #NYCSciTweetUp, The Story Collider has grown immensely, attracting a [...]Keep reading »
Making, Education, and Innovation: Inspiring Makers in Underrepresented Communities
September 20th, 2011 | 6
Maker Faire invites young Makers to enter a world of innovation and imagination. If you can dream it, you can build it—particularly as experienced Makers are on-hand and willing to share what they know. How can we better encourage a broader participation in this science and technology showcase by underrepresented groups—beginning in the very neighborhood [...]Keep reading »
Crossing the Streams: #NYCSciTweetUp and The Story Collider Together!
Edit: The Story Collider is a ticketed event. The cost to attend is $8.00 and tickets can be purchased at The Story Collider website. At the door, the price to attend will be $10.00. There is no fee to attend the #NYCSciTweetUp. Like science? Like stories? Well, hold on to your beakers and field [...]Keep reading »
Picturing Science: Secrets of the Museum Revealed
July 21st, 2011 | 3
To the public, museums are mysterious, magical places. Science, history, and context are carefully preserved and displayed—though the guy-wires are carefully hidden so as to not disturb the experience of the visitor. The work that goes into constructing the fancy dioramas and exhibits, the science that helps construct the scenes that we view as visitors [...]Keep reading »
Scientific American Science in Action Winner Kenneth Shinozuka
It's no secret to Scientific American readers that we feel a special obligation to support the next generation of science enthusiasts, whom we hope to inspire both with our science coverage and our education initiatives, including the Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair. The awards event was held a [...]Keep reading »
Putting Science in Action in Swaziland
In 2012, the Scientific American Science in Action award became part of Google Science Fair. Last month, one of the judges for both, T.H. Culhane, traveled to Swaziland to work with our 2012 winners as well as another finalist and more; we had a Swaziland Hangout during the visit. Now I'm thrilled to bring to [...]Keep reading »
A Hangout with Google Science Fair in Swaziland
You know what's awesome? Seeing a bunch of young people at work on changing the world to make it a better place for all. Today, I hosted a Google Science Fair Hangout On Air on Sustainability in Swaziland, and I got to have that privilege. Now I want to share it with you. My fellow [...]Keep reading »
A Hangout IN Air–Off a Cliff Face–for Science
When I last did a Google Science Fair Hangout On Air with Jason Osborne and Aaron Alford, founders of Paleo Quest, they were diving in a swamp looking for fossils. Yesterday, they took their fossil quest to new heights, rather literally: this time, they hung on ropes off the side of a cliff for a [...]Keep reading »
Hangout with Canopy Researcher Margaret Lowman
Margaret Lowman, who also goes by the nickname "Canopy Meg," is chief of science and sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on life and ecosystems at the top of the forest canopy in far-flung places, including the Amazon and Ethiopia. In a Google Science Fair Hangout On Air conversation with me, [...]Keep reading »
Scientific American Editor Testifies at U.S. Senate
At a hearing on the future of federal research investment, a science magazine editor and three noted scientists asked the U.S. Senate to support basic researchKeep reading »
Thank You, Guest Editor LeVar Burton
We at Scientific American share several passions with the actor, producer and educator LeVar Burton: fostering children's literacy, science, social good and education. And, of course, Star Trek. So perhaps it's only natural that this past Wednesday we welcomed Burton as our Guest Editor for the day. Burton conducted a "site takeover"—making story assignments, deciding [...]Keep reading »
Star Trek's LeVar Burton to Be Scientific American Guest Web Editor June 11
June 9th, 2014 | 4
NuqneH! Buy' ngop! That's "greetings" and "good news" in Klingon. These otherworldly tidings seem like a fitting way to let you know that LeVar Burton, who played the U.S.S. Enterprise's chief engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, will be guest editor of Scientific American's Web site on Wednesday, June 11. Burton [...]Keep reading »
Kid Scientists Make Real Fossil Finds at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Kids searching for fossils using SharkFinder kits at Scientific American's booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Credit: Jason Osborne Jason Osborne was trying to grab a quick lunch away from the crowds when his wife called his cellphone. "Jason, you've got to come see this boy at the booth. He's amazing!" When Osborne, [...]Keep reading »
Scientific American at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
I'll write a fuller post about the amazing things that kids are doing at Scientific American's booth 1311 at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, but I wanted to share the short video below. In it, you'll meet the festival's co-founders, Larry Bock and Ray O. Johnson of Lockheed Martin (which itself has a booth [...]Keep reading »
Talent on the Sidelines: The Widening Gap in Excellence
October 22nd, 2013 | 6
An alarming report on the current state of excellence in the United States has been released today. The conclusion of the report "Talent on the Sidelines: Excellence Gaps and the Persistence of America's Permanent Talent Underclass" is that the United States is relying on less than half of its talent, with large percentages of our brightest students [...]Keep reading »
Why Education Needs More Radioactive Spiders
September 9th, 2013 | 4
Education needs more radioactive spiders. Stay with me. Remember Peter Parker? His childhood wasn't easy. Both of his parents– Richard and Mary– were killed on a mission as double agents. Raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May in Queens, Peter spent most of his childhood without an identity. Now, Peter was a good student. [...]Keep reading »
Why Math Teachers Feel Poorly Prepared
July 13th, 2012 | 14
When William Schmidt, an expert on math education at Michigan State University, moved his family from East Lansing to Charlottesville, Virginia for a year's research leave, his work took a personal turn. He noticed that the public school his daughters would be attending outside Charlottesville was academically behind the one they had attended in Michigan. [...]Keep reading »
School Turns Engineering Faculty into Superheroes
May 18th, 2012 | 1
A recent survey by Intel found that only 28 percent of teenagers had ever considered becoming engineers and that only 5 percent associated engineering with the word "cool." That's not terribly surprising given that engineering ranks in the bottom half of professions with which teens are familiar, falling below teacher, doctor, nurse, police officer, chef, [...]Keep reading »
Evolution and Climate Change Should Be Taught in Schools, Say States
May 11th, 2012 | 67
One day after new test results showed that only 32 percent of U.S. 8th graders are proficient in science, a group of 26 states has helped draft a document that may bring about a major overhaul of science education in this country. Known as the Next Generation Science Standards, the draft sets ambitious new expectations for [...]Keep reading »
Earth Day Science for Kids: How Rain Drops Form
Two graduate students from the City University of New York's NOAA-CREST program showed me this simple experiment, above, for young kids. The three of us volunteered at an Earth Day fair at a New York City elementary school on Friday, and kids were mesmerized by it. It illustrates the concepts of accretion — when [...]Keep reading »
Spring Science Festivals Mix Stars from Sky and Screen
April 14th, 2012 | 1
Earlier this week The New York Times profiled the director of the M.I.T. Museum and founder of the Cambridge Science Festival, John Durant. The piece mentioned that science festivals have been multiplying across the country; last year there were more than 20. According to the Times: "A science festival has more in common with a film, [...]Keep reading »
Food Safety: A Job for 10-Year-Olds?
Earlier this month, I watched groups of kids ages 9 to 16 present their own original ideas for solving major food safety problems. They were participating in the annual First Lego League challenge, the robotics competition founded by inventor Dean Kamen and Lego. We heard ideas for better ways of monitoring the pH level of [...]Keep reading »
U.S. State Science Standards Are "Mediocre to Awful"
February 1st, 2012 | 40
A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States. But it also reveals some intriguing details about exactly what's going wrong with the way many American students are learning science. Standards are the foundation upon which educators build curricula, write textbooks and train [...]Keep reading »
Science Education Experts Respond to Obama's Speech
January 25th, 2012 | 1
In his State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama spent less time than in years past discussing his ambitions to reform science education. He referred to his administration's offer to let states opt out of No Child Left Behind (" … grant schools flexibility to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching [...]Keep reading »
Museum Plans to Put Scientists on Display
January 20th, 2012 | 4
Imagine walking through a science museum and, among the usual displays of dinosaur bones, butterflies, and amphibians you come upon a series of windows into state-of-the-art research labs. Inside, scientists from nearby universities and veterinary schools work on projects related to biodiversity, genetics, nanoparticles, and animal health and welfare. In front of each window is [...]Keep reading »
Ask Brian Greene Anything–Really
November 9th, 2011 | 9
Tonight PBS airs the second of its four part series "Fabric of the Cosmos," (9 pm ET/PT) based on the bestselling book by Columbia physicist and mathematician Brian Greene. He spoke with Budding Scientist about the NOVA series, which aims to demystify such concepts as multiple universes and bring viewers up to date on the [...]Keep reading »
Cosmos: The Second Coming
July 22nd, 2013 | 7
I've been waiting a long time for this. Fresh from its debut at San Diego Comic-Con, the first official trailer for the reboot of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: In August of 2008, I attended the third annual SciFoo conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. That's a whole other subject, which I've touched on here [...]Keep reading »
20 Questions with the Space Station
I've been a freelancer for over 20 years. It's not quite accurate to say there aren't benefits. There are; they just don't include health care and employer-matched IRAs. The benefits are such things as not having to use an alarm clock or wear pants everyday, if you don't feel like it. You can. But you don't [...]Keep reading »
It only takes one day: bringing scientists into the classroom
August 31st, 2011 | 2
"I have an idea," my brother said to me last winter. Jacob is an elementary science teacher at a neighborhood charter school in Northeast Philadelphia and, at the time, I was working as a lab technician in the same city. "How would you like to come into my classroom and talk to my students about [...]Keep reading »
Technology Revitalizes Hands-On Education in Classrooms
November 7th, 2014 | 1
Technology has abstracted the educational sphere in the way it has abstracted all other aspects of our lives. Pencils and paper have given way to the more amorphous cloud-based computing, kids are presenting more with Prezi than on poster boards, and work can be turned in online instead of in-hand. Like any technological "progress" or [...]Keep reading »
Play, Informal Learning Cultivate Kids' Interest in STEM
When I was eight years old I couldn't speak English. I'd been born in another country and came to the U.S. because my father's postdoctoral medical research brought us here. Frustrated with my inability to communicate with others, I stopped trying. I didn't want to play with the other kids anyway – at least that's [...]Keep reading »
Teaching Kids to Love Science, and Falling in Love with the Kids
December 30th, 2013 | 3
Put a science writer in a classroom with two-dozen ten-year-olds and I promise you this: the writer will learn more than the kids. I've just had that experience, not for the first time but in an especially fulfilling way, while talking about science to a group of fourth and fifth graders at Public School [...]Keep reading »
A Universe Made of Stories: Why We Need a Science and Technology Dialogue
November 29th, 2013 | 4
In quantum mechanics, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle holds that it is impossible to determine both the position and momentum of a particle. Heisenberg's breakthrough relates to a subject of vital importance to America: the need for better communications practices in the science and technology fields. Communications is my profession, and I am concerned by what I [...]Keep reading »
The Outdoors as a "World of Wonder" for Children
July 21st, 2011 | 2
How a local program is changing the way families experience nature. Ten families hiked into Davidson College Ecological Preserve on a bright Saturday morning to get a glimpse of the kudzu-eating goats, usually off-limits to the public. The outing was part of an environmental education program, World of Wonder (WOW!), a partnership of the Davidson [...]Keep reading »
Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform
July 19th, 2011 | 19
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being [...]Keep reading »
The educational value of creative disobedience
July 7th, 2011 | 23
"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers" –Jean Piaget Looking back on my childhood, the times I remember most fondly were spent with my father, learning how to [...]Keep reading »
Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students
June 27th, 2011 | 4
June was the busiest month of the academic year for New York State high school teachers and their students. In addition to getting their students to hand in any last minute assignments, NYS high school teachers had to make sure that their students were fully prepared to take required standardized tests, called Regents examinations, [...]Keep reading »
Girls' science, TIME magazine and the American Association of University Women report
August 30th, 2010 | 11
"I'm from Britain, and when I first moved here I couldn't believe that American kids got three whole months of summer vacation. Back in England our children only get six weeks. But here…it's…bleech!" This rather unkind comment was uttered by a woman sitting next to me at Mathnasium, a math tutoring center located in Chatham, [...]Keep reading »
What is: ScienceOnlineTEEN
This is a group post written by the teens on the ScienceOnlineTeen planning committee. Naseem, 16 years old: What is ScienceOnlineTeen? Imagine a bunch of people from all walks of life with one interest in common -science- all in one place at the same time. These people are not ordinary; they each offer unique experience [...]Keep reading »
Building Africa's Scientific Infrastructure
May 23rd, 2014 | 10
Africa has the lowest scientific output of any continent, despite being the second most populous. Combined, its 54 nations generate approximately the same amount of scientific research as the Netherlands. On Tuesday, the Planet Earth Institute, an international NGO and charity working for the scientific independence of Africa, sponsored a panel discussion at the office [...]Keep reading »
Firstborn Girls Most Likely to Succeed
May 1st, 2014 | 15
Bossy, know-it-all older sisters everywhere now have something else to lord over their younger siblings: Researchers have found that firstborn girls are the most ambitious and successful children in their families. A slew of real life examples appear to back this up: Beyonce, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Sheryl Sandberg are all firstborns. Oldest children [...]Keep reading »
Brainy Watson Computer to Tackle Cancer and Other Medical Research
January 9th, 2014 | 3
After vanquishing humans on Jeopardy!, IBM says its Watson computer is ready to help save human lives. The company on Thursday announced it has created a new business unit specifically to advance Watson and deliver its artificially intelligent wisdom to research organizations, medical institutions and businesses so that they can process "big data" for detailed [...]Keep reading »
Global STEM Alliance Adds SUNY and Buenos Aires to Education Network
The future of tomorrow's global economy relies on the education of children today and the technology they will be able to produce, which is why the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and Cisco established a partnership earlier this year to encourage children to take on professions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known [...]Keep reading »
Global STEM Outreach Effort to Target Middle Schoolers in Barcelona and Malaysia
A global alliance aimed at educating and empowering youth to become the next generation to enter the information and communication technologies (ICT) workforce was announced today in Barcelona, Spain, at Cisco's Internet of Things World Forum.. Established in response to a growing demand for workers in this field, the Global STEM Alliance will be modeled [...]Keep reading »
Socioeconomic Gender Gap Is Closing Worldwide, but Far from Eliminated
October 28th, 2013 | 5
The world's gender gap along economic, political and other social dimensions continues to narrow, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum, but lack of equality for women remains a major roadblock in most countries, including the U.S. The report quantified how close countries have come to gender parity and shows improvement [...]Keep reading »
U.S. Falls Short in New Measure of Human Capital
October 7th, 2013 | 9
Businesses in Switzerland, Finland and Singapore milk the most economic value out of their workers—and the U.S. lags pretty far behind them. According to the World Economic Forum's new Human Capital Index, in which researchers attempt to quantify the factors that help a country unlock the capabilities of its workforce, the U.S. has a lot [...]Keep reading »
Bell Labs Lead Researcher Discusses the Edge of the Internet [Video]
Apple introduces the latest "i"-gadget; Samsung takes the reins as the world's leading smartphone provider; Blackberry mounts an all-or-nothing comeback. Just a typical day of tech headlines, right? Dig deeper, however, and you have to wonder what impact all of these new multimedia devices will have on the networks that give them life. Short answer: [...]Keep reading »
Can Children Teach Themselves?
February 27th, 2013 | 9
Sugata Mitra gave street kids in a slum in New Delhi access to a computer connected to the Internet, and found that they quickly taught themselves how to use it. This was the moment he says he discovered a new way of teaching. He calls it the grandmother technique, and it goes like this: expose [...]Keep reading »
Qualcomm Kicks Off CES with Superfast Snapdragon Mobile Processors (Endorsed by NASCAR, Big Bird and Captain Kirk)
January 8th, 2013 | 1
LAS VEGAS—In a sign of how wireless technologies have moved to the fore in consumer electronics, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs kicked off the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here Monday night with a keynote spotlighting the impact of superfast processors on mobile apps, gaming and even ultra high-definition television (Ultra HDTV). Smart phones, tablets and [...]Keep reading »
Still Bringing the Science Crazy in NC
February 8th, 2013 | 18
So you thought the nuttiest thing we did in North Carolina this week was appoint a director of child development and early education who was against … um, early education. What's wrong with you: have you never heard of North Carolina before? This is the NEW North Carolina, with a new governor and bulletproof majorities [...]Keep reading »
Does Nature Need to be Nurtured?
June 12th, 2014 | 10
Some say that the differences between boys and girls are just aping nature, but studies of primates tell a more complex story "Boys will be boys" is a popular refrain in schools. A bit of rough and tumble at break time? That's natural. Likewise, "girls will be girls" is accepted without question. Some feel justified [...]Keep reading »
HHMI, with Sean B. Carroll, Premieres New Films for Teachers
"Film is a powerful way to tell stories. … The right story, told well, can be engaging, informative, and memorable." —Sean B. Carroll The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is adding four new films to its award-winning catalog of short science documentaries for the classroom. Click below to watch a composite sample of the four [...]Keep reading »
The Royal Institute's Christmas Lectures Online Now
January 11th, 2013 | 1
I've never had the pleasure of being in the UK at the time that the Royal Institute of Great Britain have aired their very famous Christmas Lectures, but I hear often from followers and friends in the UK on social media how many of them have been positively impacted by these lectures. The history of [...]Keep reading »
Science Video Brainstorming, and Some YouTube Science
Looks like I'm in for a great summer full of science video goodness! At the end of June, both Carin and I will be heading to an unconference (taking a clue from Bora from Science Online) called BrainSTEM at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada (maybe I'll get to wave at Stephen Hawking!) We will be [...]Keep reading »
Blackboards Make You Stupid (Or Is It Just Me?)
August 31st, 2013 | 1
I just finished my first week teaching after a few years out of the classroom. Whenever I teach, I'm struck by how much detail I need to put in my notes to make sure I don't say something absolutely ridiculous when I'm in front of the class. Even with careful preparation, I sometimes arrive back [...]Keep reading »
Neuroscientists Break into the Brain to Expose Its Workings
October 30th, 2014 | 3
The brain is a dazzlingly complex web of somewhere around 100 billion neurons, each of which communicates with others through thousands of connections. The idea of manipulating such a complex system to figure out how it works seems, on the face of it, improbable. Yet a few intrepid explorers have set their sights on this [...]Keep reading »
Multitask at Your Own Risk
July 2nd, 2014 | 2
// Editor's note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act. Below is a synopsis of the eighth video in the series written by a guest on this blog, Roni Jacobson, a science journalist based in [...]Keep reading »
Cultivate Your Character [Video]
The term "character" has numerous and widely varied meanings. It defines each of these letters and symbols I am typing. It can be used to refer to features of wines, and it captures fictional folks in movies in books. I often call funny or stand-out individuals "characters," too. In psychology, however, "character" most often adheres [...]Keep reading »
Who Needs Stimulants for ADHD?
February 13th, 2014 | 15
In 1970, 150,000 U.S. children were taking stimulant medications. By 2007, that number had risen to 2.7 million, according to pediatrician Sanford Newmark of the University of California, San Francisco. In the video embedded in this post, titled "Do 2.5 Million Kids Really Need Ritalin?" Newmark analyzes the reasons behind the rise in prescriptions, which [...]Keep reading »
Teen Builds Gateway to the Brain for Girls
November 6th, 2013 | 1
The Synapse Project "encourages young women to enter the field of neuroscience through information and mentorship," according to its website. This endeavor, an amalgam of outlets for kids, information for teens and career advice for young women, turns out to be the brainchild of … a child, one keenly interested in the brain. Sixteen-year-old Grace [...]Keep reading »
The Making of a Mathematical Mind: 1 Step at a Time
August 15th, 2013 | 5
One time when I was in the third grade, I got sick and missed a week of school. My dad wanted me to keep up with my schoolwork, so he brought my assignments and books home. I did the required work in the math workbook quickly, or so the story goes, and went on to [...]Keep reading »
How to Avoid the Self-Esteem Trap
August 9th, 2013 | 6
I have always assumed that having a strong sense of self-worth was important. I figured it made a person happier, healthier, more successful, and easier to be around. Turns out that these benefits of self-esteem are rather hard to prove. Having high self-esteem has some modest pluses, studies suggest. It makes you more persistent, for [...]Keep reading »
Hear Me Talk about Social and Emotional Learning!
On Monday, May 13, at 7pm, I'll be moderating a panel at The New York Academy of Sciences. If you are in the area, please attend! Here a description of the event: Social and Emotional Learning: Preparing Our Children to Excel Monday, May 13, 2013 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM The New York Academy [...]Keep reading »
How to Make Kids Smarter—and Ease Existential Terror
April 17th, 2013 | 1
A few months ago, I logged on to Lumosity.com to play my daily dose of brain games. The company had given me a free, temporary account so that I could try out their system as part of my research for an article I was writing on brain training. My then 11-year-old son wanted to play, [...]Keep reading »
Do Music Lessons Make You Smarter?
March 1st, 2013 | 18
Practice makes progress, if not perfection, for most things in life. Generally, practicing a skill—be it basketball, chess or the tuba—mostly makes you better at whatever it was you practiced. Even related areas do not benefit much. Doing intensive basketball drills does not usually make a person particularly good at football. Chess experts are not [...]Keep reading »
Build-A-Monster From the Inside Out
Spongelab has taken their popular Build-a-Body educational anatomy app and given it a Halloween makeov- umm, makeover is the wrong word. Halloween skin? No, that's not it. Ew. Build-a-Monster! Learn more about the NSF and Science award-winning Build-a-Body here and see Spongelab's newsletter for more science-ed and Hallowe'en goodness. Spongelab @Spongelab on Twitter and Ello [...]Keep reading »
Science on a Sphere & Falling in Love Again
This week, the only dedicated science illustration conference in the country is taking place in Boulder, CO. The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators' annual gathering is in full swing and there are fascinating developments to convey. First off, on Monday the keynote speakers addressed two sides of the same question: how can we engage more [...]Keep reading »
Speaking of Tax Dollars… Do You Like Yours Spent on Teaching Creationism?
January 29th, 2014 | 19
After the State of the Union address last night, everyone is talking about how best to spend tax dollars. So it seems appropriate to bring this into the conversation. Slate published a critical interactive map this week showing schools that allow the teaching of creationism in their science classrooms while receiving public funding. It's a [...]Keep reading »
Iran's Position on Evolution? Not What You Might Expect.
August 9th, 2013 | 7
If you had asked me before yesterday what the official Iranian position on evolution was, I would have shrugged my shoulders and said, "skewed?" As such you can imagine my surprise when I found out that Neil Shubin's popular book, Your Inner Fish, has been translated into Persian: And here I must admit: I'm more [...]Keep reading »
The Promise and Perils of Pinterest
March 16th, 2012 | 18
The Promise – a bold credited, copyright future Initially, I was enamored by Pinterest, the image sharing and collecting site. It's like a visual scrapbook of all the things you love online, and does what Tumblr has neglected to do, and requires a link back to the source of each image. Amazing. A boon for artists, illustrators [...]Keep reading »
Spongelab: gaming the art of science education
September 12th, 2011 | 4
"What famous painting does this remind you of?" I was sitting in the offices of Spongelab Interactive about a month ago speaking with Jeremy Friedberg, molecular genetics and biotechnology professor, now science education game-guru, and we were discussing the interactive opening image of History of Biology, an expansive mystery game. The image in question, above, contains [...]Keep reading »
2 Hydrogens and 1 Oxygen–a Recipe for Cognitive Enhancement?
July 23rd, 2013 | 3
Bioethicists have engaged in endless hand wringing in recent years about whether substances that purportedly allow us to remember and process information more efficiently should be available to everyone, not just kids with ADHD. If you can make your brain work better in some way that doesn't entail poring over a pre-calculus text for hours, [...]Keep reading »
Alien Investigations and the Montauk Monster
December 2nd, 2012 | 20
Tonight, Channel 4 here in the UK screens a new TV show called Alien Investigations [adjacent screengrab from here on the Channel 4 site]. I believe that it has already been screened on the Science Channel in North America, where it was titled Alien Mummies. I haven't yet seen the show so cannot comment on [...]Keep reading »
When Being Borinqueña Acquired New Meaning
November 15th, 2014 | 1
I knew my idea was not unique, mainly because it originated from a collective need. Like many others, I felt the need to have a voice and to form a space for a community that would highlight and represent the women in science of Puerto Rico. This was my personal desire and aspiration, but one I [...]Keep reading »
For Female Physicists, Peer Mentoring Can Combat Isolation
Women physicists are often isolated at work. Just consider the numbers: 86 percent of American faculty physicists are male; 89 percent of PhD physicists working in the science and engineering industry are male; and it was just in 2012 that the number of physics PhDs earned by women reached even 20 percent. To increase the [...]Keep reading »
Middle Schoolers Develop App to Help Visually Impaired
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Editor's note: During National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), Ciencia Puerto Rico and Borinqueña are celebrating the work of organizations inspiring, supporting and empowering Latinas in STEM fields. You can read the following post in Spanish here. Latinas have a bright future in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Latina girls love [...]Keep reading »
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Para leer esta entrada en Español, presione aquí. Few communities encompass as many challenges and opportunities as the 53 million Hispanics living in the United States. Hispanics or Latinos have the second highest poverty rate and the overall lowest educational attainment[1] [2] in the nation. They also have some of the lowest levels of science [...]Keep reading »
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Addiction remains a topic riddled with bad science commentary and outdated beliefs, mainly because no one wants to talk about it. One of my favorite drug and addiction writers Dirk Hansen has tied his posts, those covered in his Addiction Inbox blog, together in an anthology — a fascinating and detailed one, about questions and [...]Keep reading »
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I've asked a scientist who has struggled with mental health issues and substance abuse through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduate school to write about it, to highlight the pressures faced and the way problems are noticed, exacerbated and often, perhaps unintentionally, masked over the course of education. This as well as other recent [...]Keep reading »
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The Occupy Wall Street movement may do wonders in fighting outlandish bouts of capitalism on the upper echelons of society, but it got me thinking about egregious waste on our own ground, right here within the 99%. Let's consider, for a moment, the question of substance use and abuse. Alcohol Our U.S. consumer culture spends [...]Keep reading »
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1. Power Mimic (A; P; Dark) You copy someone else's mutation. Choose wisely! Minor Action; Close Burst 5; Target: One ally in burst with a readied Alpha Mutation.; Effect: Choose one Alpha Mutation the target has readied. You gain the Alpha Mutation's benefit until the end of your next turn, or you can use its power once before the end of your next turn. The target's Alpha Mutation is unaffected.; Overcharge: When you use this power, you can roll at d20.; 10+ You gain the Alpha Mutation's benefit until the end of the encounter instead, or you can use its power once before the end of the encounter.; 9 or less: A random enemy of the GM's choice gains the same benefit or power use as you from the chosen Alpha Mutation.
2. "Two-Headed". (A; P; Bio) You grow a second head that watches your back and keeps you from feeling lonely during those long nights. Benefit: You gain a +4 power bonus to Will and don't grant combat advantage. Overcharge: When you start your turn, you can roll a d20.; 10+: While this card is readied, you can take an extra standard action during each of your turns.; 9 or less: You are dominated by your second head (save ends). While under this effect, your second head resents your allies and tries to attack them or humiliate them.
3. Dehydrated Man (O; P; Ishtar) This jar of white powder is labeled "Powdered Scientist—just add water!" Special; Minor Action; Effect: You deploy the dehydrated man in an unoccupied square adjacent to you. It occupies 1 square. Enemies can't move through its space, but allies can. Whenever you take a move action, you can move the man 6 squares as a free action. The dehydrated man's defenses are all 20. If a single attack deals 20 or more damage to the man, it's destroyed. While the man is deployed, you gain a +5 power bonus on Conspiracy, Mechanics, and Science checks. At the end of the encounter, roll a d6. On a 1–3, the dehydrated man collapses into lifeless powder. On a 4–6, the man leaves to pursue its own goals.

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November 14, 2014
In a move that does not come as a surprise to those that have been following the company closely, WWE has opted to release the Great Khali. His profile has been officially moved to the alumni section on the company website. Reports are saying that his contract expired, and management felt it was financially beneficial to not renew the former world heavyweight champion, even though he was considered a marketing asset.
November 14, 2014
Before the WWE Network was shoved down the throats of fans on a weekly basis, the company was promoting a social media website called Tout. They constantly mentioned the service, and they had several of their performers utilizing it to interact with the fans. WWE invested approximately $5000 into the company and signed a two year agreement. Stephanie McMahon was even on their board of directors. It looks like the deal is now over, as reports has surfaced that WWE was not interested in renewing the contract.
September 3, 2014
Reports have surfaced that the contract between Bully Ray and TNA has now officially expired. The two sides had been trying to negotiate a new deal, but financial terms could not be met. The former world heavyweight champion is still listed on the official roster page on the TNA website. The belief is that the company might wait until a new television deal has been signed before renegotiating with some of the bigger stars.
August 25, 2014
Back in July, Austin Aries decided to go silent on Twitter because he was protesting the decision by TNA to allow fans to vote on the return of the six sided ring. For those that are wondering, the X Division Champion has already came back to the social media website. He has been posting regularly. Aries is even promoting Impact Wrestling on there, so it looks like he's back on good terms with the company.
August 16, 2014
Those that watch Impact Wrestling already know that Low Ki is back with TNA. The former X Division Champion has also been added to the official roster page on their website. Reports are now surfacing that Low Ki isn't just back as a wrestler. He's also working as a backstage agent for the entire X division, which means that he will be in charge of scripting the stories and the matches.
July 31, 2014
TMZ has quite the fascination with WWE nowadays. The tabloid website recently reported that Nikki Bella, who recently received her real estate license, was spotted showing homes to Cameron and her boyfriend. The couple is getting pretty serious and is wanting to move in together. Cameron, who is one of the stars of Total Divas, stated that she wants a five bedroom place.
July 21, 2014
When the company moved CM Punk from their official roster to the alumni section yesterday, WWE created a bit of a stir. Things escalated even further when management removed his merchandise from the WWE Shop website. Apparently, there was some miscommunication within the company on the matter. All of his merchandise have been returned to the online store.
July 17, 2014
Reports are going around that CM Punk could be officially gone from WWE now. The former world heavyweight champion has been removed from the active roster list on the website. His profile has been moved over to the alumni section, which the company normally does when a performer is gone. Punk's contract is said to be expiring later on this week, so it's interesting that WWE pulled the trigger on the roster change ahead of time.
July 15, 2014
With the company in Japan for a tour, WWE stars were in for a bit of a rude awakening this weekend. A 6.8 earthquake struck the island country. Several of the stars made note of the incident through their social media website. Hulk Hogan revealed that his bed had moved around the hotel room. Fortunately, though, this particular earthquake did not produce devastating tsunamis like the last one.
July 12, 2014
If you're a fan of John Morrison, now is a good time to head on over to the Amazon website because Hercules Reborn, which the former WWE performer stars in, is being released and shipped today. Interestingly enough, the website credits Morrison as the director as well as the star. However, that might simply be a typo because Nick Lyon sat in the director's chair for the film.
July 8, 2014
When TNA announced at Slammiversary 2014 that Devon and Bully Ray were going to be inducted into the hall of fame, it led to a lot of speculation about the status of Devon with the company. It looks like the former television champion is making a return to TNA, as his profile has been restored on the official roster page on their website.
June 17, 2014
There are a lot of rumors going around right now about John Morrison making his return to WWE in the near future. The speculations stem from an article that was on the official WWE website that listed performers who could replace Seth Rollins in the Shield. Out of all the names given, Morrison was the only one that was not currently under contract to the company, so people began whispering.
June 9, 2014
The TNA Knockouts website has undergone a bit of a makeover, with the company making some modifications to the layout and adding some new performers. A quick glance at the site shows that TNA now has nine Knockouts on the roster. Some new pictures of ODB, Christy Hemme, Velvet Sky, Taryn Terrell, Gail Kim, Santana Garrett, Angelina Love, Madison Rayne and Brooke Tessmacher have been uploaded.
May 31, 2014
Despite never climbing the ranks and becoming a main event performer, WWE recognized the skills and passion that Joey Mercury had for the profession. In a feature on their website, the company put some spotlight on Mercury, who is now working as a trainer and backstage agent for WWE. Paul Heyman, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns had quite a bit of praise for Mercury.
May 21, 2014
A website called New Mature Tube has been trying to lure professional wrestling fans by promising naked videos and pictures of Beulah McGillicutty online. While the former ECW star has posed naked before, the site is actually using a strip tease video of a porn star instead.
May 13, 2014
In a very rare interview, Vince Russo addressed the rumors that he was still working with TNA. The former head writer noted that he has not been under contract with a professional wrestling company in approximately two years now. Russo revealed that he is living in a house in the mountains of Colorado and working on a new website project.
May 6, 2014
A little stir was created earlier this week on WWE.com, as the website teased a dream match between Sting and Undertaker, which is something that fans have been clamoring to see for the last several years. Unfortunately, though, nothing is in the works at the moment, as this was simply something concocted by the technology department to increase traffic.
April 26, 2014
On their official website, WWE produced a list of the greatest talkers in the history of the business. The top five consisted of Ric Flair, Rock, Dusty Rhodes, Roddy Piper and Steve Austin. The more interesting inclusion, though, is CM Punk, who is listed at #16. The company has not made much mention of him since he walked away a couple of months ago.
April 25, 2014
It's always fascinating to see which professional wrestlers remain friends after they leave WWE, and it appears that Armando Estrada and Shelton Benjamin are two of those people. Estrada posted this message on Twitter to mock his friend, which prompted a response from Benjamin.
February 19, 2014
Through Twitter, Armando Estrada posted this message in regards to smoking.
February 6, 2014
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The 2 are not related, I've never questioned why our tier bonus for tanking is damage and not healing/avoidance of some sort. I can say that building to the 4 piece set is golden with the IBF duration being increased.
Doesn't this fall in line with other 2 pc sets, I mean normaly the first part of the set is only icing and not the cake, to enjoy both you have to invest in all 4 pieces. The Pally 2 piece increases their hit rating, and the 4 piece increases their dodge.
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Do you have a restore point from before this happened? If yes, you can simply restore the computer to its working state and it'll be like the last 28 hours never happened.
2 days ago or so I was playing the game fine. but then an addon popped up and it was my anti-virus saying something of WOW was a threat..i didn't really read it just said move it to the vault..So it did. So since this I haven't been able to play wow ..log on or do anything I had this problem before because I did the same thing before. but anyways I tried the steps I did before and it still isn't working...I turned off my firewall(s) and anti-viruses and uninstalled wow and installed it again and still it wont let me play. now all of a udden it started to install and once it sgets to 98 percent complete the installing stops and it says it cant change the name of the file its downloading to another name and everything shuts down. When I click on the WOW launcher it says I cant open the launcher and play the game unless its in the same folder as the game ...but the game hasntbeen able to download at all anymore. I looked in all my folders and nothing and this has been a headache ...well a pain in the ass for a good 28 hrs now....I put out many tickets to GM's but they take forever to answer back. anyway I tried running as an administrator as I did before but even that isn't working..i deleted the caches and the folders they said to delete and still nothing it just seems to get one problem after another...I don't know much about computer but I do have 2 firewalls..one from windows that doesn't see WOW as a threat and allows it in and Norton which I turned off but its the AVG that doesn't seem to allow it through even if I delete the whole anti-virus. it still lurks somewhere in my system I suppose. Well I guess im wondering if any of you have had this problem before and how you resolved it..i tired to give as much detail as possible...ty its been 28 hrs of frustration.
Do you have a restore point from before this happened? If yes, you can simply restore the computer to its working state and it'll be like the last 28 hours never happened.
the only thing I could've done was restore them form my recycling bin but by the time wow actually started failing to install altogether I had deleted the items so they are long gone unless theres a way to get everything back I deleted in the last 28 hrs from my recycling bin...if I could get the item back I emptied out of my recycling bin I could get it back but idk how to do that.
Sounds to me like you have some kind of virus infection.
Start running some scanners for that before you continue on, and realize that the one you are using now is probably compromised and untrustworthy now, since the virus already got past that.
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you know the funny thing is -is that the same thing happened to my laptop and I took it to get it fixed and they couldn't even fix it. and I took it there twice and I just bought this computer a month ago from some extra bucks but my laptop my internet kept crashing and the Work Offline thing kept coming on even though I didn't turn it on..it would turn itelf on right away no matter what I did...and for me to think its a problem on blizzards end is today I filled out a ticket and he asked me to check if the Work Offline was on that could be the problem so the problem to me is with the game itself...it has to be..its a brand new computer. on my laptop id check the box or make sure Work Offline wasn't on but it'd go right to Work Offline again on its own..and eventually I couldn't even get on the interent at all so maybe the same is happening again..eventually I might not even be able to post. that's what happened last time.
oh and too add I did run a scanner with both my AVG Anti-Virus and Norton and it says WOW is fine...I deleted AVG altogether and still there must've been something I missed because after I downloaded or was installing the game the AVG threat popped up and asked me or told me WOW was a threat again..so its proably the AVG I heard that AVG and WOW don't go well together. I look at all my files and delete the AVG I thought I got them all last time but I guess not if threat warnings are popping up after I delete the anti-virus.
so to delete my AVG totally it says I need permission from my system and I was wondering how to do that
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While companies like Denon, Integra, Marantz and Pioneer Elite may come to mind first when thinking of mid-high home theater receivers, Sony's ES line of gear holds its own among those brands. Strangely, the products are a little hard to find.
You can't find the ES products on Sony's main web site, which is mostly just an e-commerce site (ES products are only sold through authorized brick and mortar dealers). ES stands for Elevated Standard, which in other words also means more expensive—Sony's non-ES receivers range from about $200-$400, while the ES models exceed $1K, and they're not the kind of systems that go on sale due to Sony's strict minimum advertised price policy. The upshot is that you won't need to worry too much that one dealer is gouging you because they all sell them for about the same price. The downside is you can't price shop online. With high-end gear you'll want to go to a knowledgeable dealer anyway who can explain the system and also install and set up is you need that.
The STR-DA5700ES is the top model of the 2012 ES line, and as such it's got all the standard receiver goodies like high power output (7.2 channels, 130 watts per channel), 3D pass-through, high resolution audio processing (Dolby TrueHD, DTS Master Audio, DSD) and multiroom/multisource capability. Because the receiver is no longer just a box for connecting your source components and speakers into, this model also comes with a number of streaming services built in for music and video. One of the less usual features the model includes is the addition of four Ethernet ports that serve as a switching hub.
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With any receiver, before plugging in and jumping out of the gate, you need to go through a standard setup routine to balance the speakers and make sure all the parts of the system are talking correctly to each other. This is one area where the Sony excels probably better than any receiver I've used recently. A very friendly Easy Setup wizard will walk the user through all the in/out and network decisions, and then a simple speaker calibration wizard will make the level adjustments. To setup the speakers you plug in a supplied microphone and place the mic in the user's listening position, then the receivers sends out a series of test tones to the speakers which are picked up by the mic, and adjustments are made automatically.
After that process was done I tested the levels with my own sound meter, and the results were good—it did poke the subwoofer a bit higher than normal, but I tend to like it that way (though my family doesn't) anyway.
The power of a receiver (aside from its actual, you know, power) is its ability to integrate all your sources and devices into one accessible device and interface. At this the Sony mostly succeeds very well. The key is the Home button. Press the home button and you're taken to a screen that offers you a number of options, such as Watch, Listen, Favorites, etc. Use the remote to highlight one of those options, and you're taken to more options. Selecting Listen will offer you a menu of all the audio devices you have connected. You can then further select internet services for things like Pandora and Slacker. Color icons are used to make the menu friendlier to navigate. A similar list of options is provided in the Watch menu. To make matters easier, there are Listen and Watch buttons directly on the remote, so you really never need go to the Home screen unless you want to get to something like settings.
Another nice feature is called Easy Automation. Easy Automation is a feature that works kind of like an activity-based macro. You can assign a group of commands to one button and have it labeled Movie, Music, Party or Night. Then when you select that option, all those commands will be executed at once. Included in the commands you can add is the ability to select your preferred soundfield mode or sound optimizer.
Hard buttons for Easy Automation are on the remote, or you can get to the selections through the Home button.
Speaking of buttons, the remote has a lot of them, and unfortunately, they're not all easy to get at. For an ES-level receiver, I'm shocked that the remote isn't backlit. If you're watching TV at night, you'll definitely need some light in the room to operate this remote. Like most receiver remotes, the source buttons are small and all shaped the same. I'd like to see a company that made at least two of the source buttons extra large: Cable and Blu-ray. Those are the only two most people really need, so make them prominent. Also the important Watch and Listen buttons are equally small and buried. The biggest offence though is the placement of the volume control. Its way down at the bottom of the remote, so when you hold the remote normally in your palm, you have to dislocate your thumb to adjust the volume.
While the remote my not be stellar, ES line can be controlled through an ES app. Theoretically you can use either an Apple or Android device for this, but I could locate no ES remote app in Google's app store on my Samsung Galaxy tablet. There was another Sony remote app, but that was for Blu-ray players, and not anything from the ES line. Luckily I did find the ES app for my iPhone 4S. Once I downloaded and launched the app, I scanned for devices and was connected to the receiver in about five seconds. From there operation was pretty self-explanatory. I had access to the all-important volume and input controls, which makes an app an ideal secondary remote—especially for using in the dark. As usual for these things, the app didn't have access to everything the receiver does. The major omission was that I couldn't select any streaming music services from the app remote—only with the physical remote.
To be fair to the ES line, probably most users won't stick with the supplied remote anyway. The receiver can be integrated with control systems via IR, RS-232 or IP. If I owned this system I'd put the receiver on a good universal remote or universal app right away, and so would any integrator.
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The foundation of the SLR is its nylon composite shell, with its 'composite' designation being derived from its 10% carbon fiber content. Essentially, this mix provides the shell with a boost of support, while still providing a natural level of flex for comfort. However, as it does share SLR designation, it dimensions vary from the boilerplate 131mm width and 275mm length to a 145mm width and a 275mm length. It also differs is in its level of padding. Selle Italia ranks this saddle as an 'L3' in its Identity Matching System, meaning that it possesses a similar level of firmness to SLR Super Flow and the Max Flite Gel Flow saddles. In terms of padding, you'll find that the SLR is quite ample. In fact, the L3 designation is reserved purely for comfort. And, in addition to this, Selle Italia also gave the SLR a shock absorber. This makes it ideal for those with large-width sit bones and high pelvic rotation. And for anyone who also prefers a medium-profile design, the SLR has one of the higher measures from rail to top-of-cover in the Selle Italia line (57mm).
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