Well, I bet they’re all that cute.
But I don’t care how big and manly you are, you know you’re moved to scritch it behind the ears and say “who’s a cute little kitty? That’s right, you’re a cute little kitty. Waschawhaschawhuh.”
From the original article at National Geographic.
June 29, 2009—The discovery of ten lynx […]

A pretty standard lab for introductory physics is to chart what constant speed (or constant acceleration) looks like, and graph it versus time. There are all different ways to do this, but one is to use a ticker-tape timer, which I think is wonderfully cool. The idea is to attach a piece of […]

I guess that I’m the last person to see this, but this YouTube video on digital technology and college education from Kansas State University made the rounds a while back. It’s a very moving presentation of how distanced students feel from their own learning and the role that technology plays in that.
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Here was an interesting discussion on a science teacher’s listserv, which came down to the question — can a vacuum become a conductor? What is it that we really need in order for charge to flow between two points? What is the physics of electron flow? The physics teacher in question wrote:
The […]

I came across a new science blog recently – A Schooner of Science — and really enjoyed Sarah’s fresh and funny writing style about all sorts of things that this blog doesn’t tend to cover — namely, biology and chemistry. (I write about them when I can, but, well, it does all come down […]

I’ve had a set of “bad science movies” on my Netflix queue for a while, and every once in a while I dip into it. Each time it feels a bit risky, like trying some weird new combination, like cherry dip on my mint chocolate chip ice cream cone. Sometimes it’s OK. […]