Animalcules
The next issue of Animalcules is coming up soon - this Thursday on
Discovering Biology in a Digital World. Send your micro-entries to:
sandy at geospiza dot com
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Carnival of the Godless #39
Carnival of the Godless is up on Unscrewing The Inscrutable, with a
day's delay, as nobody knows what happened to the host! And I so
wanted to post a "Godless vs. Spineless" post yesterday after Circus
of the Spineless came live!
Anyway, next Carnival of the Godless will see the light (of day) right
here on Science And Politics, on May 14th. Send your entries by May
13th at 5pm EDST to: Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com
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Teaching Biology without Evolution...
...is like teaching English without verbs.
What is left are nouns and adjectives.
DNA, enzyme, long bone, ductus arteriosus, pretty bird.
Rote memorization.
The reason why my (adult education) students are afraid of and bored
with science to begin with.
I am starting my biology lectures tomorrow. I have no control over the
syllabus. The pages and chapters on evolution were removed from the
syllabus.
Sorry, but I am starting with evolution tomorrow night.
I cannot speak English without verbs.
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ART AND THE NEW BIOLOGY OF MIND
Videos from this conference can now be found here.
Why did they let the scientists give talks, while artists were just
sitting there and "responding"? Did the organizers think artists have
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