Category: General Science
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American (perhaps North American) kids are not even close
According to a report released by SETDA and ISTE (summarized by THE), there are a number of points that should be addressed. I’ll comment on then as how I see Alberta and the U of A (in Science) might be handling this. First: Even if all students mastered core academic subjects, they still would be…
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The very first Internet and Virus
This is an interesting story from PhysOrg – plants like clover and strawberry can communicate with each other, warning about enemies (or better resources) when needed. Interestingly, there are also pathogens that take advantage of this in plant communication channel and infect it just as viri infect our computer networks… so maybe that desk potato…
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Solar/Interstellar Dust
One of the painful memories that I have being a geek in grade school was in Jr. High Science when Mr. Smith asked about the origins of life, the planet and the like (having already established that everything exists in that level of science is matter) and I answered solar dust when talking about how…
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Calculus
One of the most interesting things (to me at least… but then I geek out on Discovery) is the history of knowledge. So this morning when I saw something about Calculus being “fussed out” about 250 years earlier in India than it was in Europe caught my I and I sent it off to a…
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Poor Pluto, confused or clarified
I find it really interesting to follow what is going on with poor Pluto, being downgraded from planet, to dwarf and now… rock? It seems that just as any other paradigm shift that science goes through there is a fair amount of passion as well as a fair amount of science to define in the…