In these tough economic times, waste not, want not, right?
So, an enterprising Explainer at the Exploratorium thought well, there must be some good use for all these cow eyes we dissect on the museum floor every day.
So, yup, you guessed it. Kudos to those crazy kids for the following recipe:
Tacos de Ojo (Eye-ball Tacos)
Makes […]

They just keep on coming! There are so many workshops for teachers, I wonder how useful it is to let you know about them. But, if there’s one in your area, and you’re available, it never hurts to dip your toes into an enrichment experience, right? See my previous post for other […]

Here’s a problem most of us never have. How do you raise tadpoles in the classroom without killing them off? Which species are best? And then what about the resulting frogs? A teacher recently raised this on the Exploratorium teacher email list, and perhaps others can benefit from these words of […]

Firstly, I just have to say how beautiful the view is outside the airplane window right now. It’s been an extraordinarily bumpy ride on my trip from San Francisco back to Denver, and I’m a real nail-biter when it comes to turbulence. But now we are above the clouds and the sky is […]

A (sort of) recent story in the NY Times highlighted the wonderful work of Satre Stuelke, a medical student and former art professor who co-opted the CT scanner for his own aesthetic purposes. Below is just one of the images that resulted — a wind-up toy bunny:
Photo: Satre Stuelke

He says: This is a […]

Our latest Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears podcast from the NSDL is up!

What’s For Dinner? Teaching Arctic Food Chains
We already know why polar bears don’t eat penguins, but what do they eat? In this episode, we’ll share a simple activity that opens a window to understanding a unique ecosystem as one example of a food […]

A sort-of recent volume of Science News had a feature article about attraction and the evolutionary basis of our conception of what makes someone beautiful. As writer Elizabeth Quill says (I love this quote) — “For humans, there is osmething captivating and unforgettable about the arrangement of two balls, a point and a horizontal […]

Wow, I just stumbled upon this and it was so beautiful I had to share:

Thanks to Tibchris on Flickr for posting this (and making it available with Creative Commons).
If you’re looking for freely available images for presentations or in-class use, there are two great places to look:

Wikimedia Commons images are all licensed under Creative Commons, […]

You can adopt me (and many other fine examples of my breed) at Adopt a Physicist.   Registration open until April 5th!
This APS/AAPT program connects high school students with physics graduates via online message boards. In this supervised forum students and physicists can talk freely about careers, school, work, and family balance.
Help high school students explore […]