Headlines Barnes & Noble - Books, Textbooks, eBooks, Toys, Games & More Venus Zine: { women in music, fashion, culture, d.i.y. } Gorton’s Law Over at the World’s Fair… Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What’s that exactly? Well, first read this excellent primer by Samuel Arbesman, which basically provides a step by step description of how to do this effectively. Then have a go at your own blog. If all goes well, I’d like to create a page at the Science Creative Quarterly, that collects (and links to) the good ones. The credit for this scientific eponym goes completely to Jason Robertshaw at Cephalopodcast, the formalization is mine. Gorton’s Measure states that the time for someone to ask “Can you eat?” where theta=time for someone to ask “Can you eat?” This is related to Gorton’s Constant (Gamma) that states that the question “How well does it go with lemon and butter?” Dr. Craig McClain is the Assistant Director of Science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, created to facilitate research to address fundamental questions in evolutionary science.
Bamboo Magazine History Commons for people who know everything cool already !! — this.hearts.on.fire. Green Is The New Red — Activism Is Not Terrorism When I received this collection of comics, I had to drop everything and read all of them. Liberator is a series about young vigilantes who go above the law (and go underground) to rescue animals from vivisection labs, dogfighting rings, and anywhere else they are abused. What I love about the series is that it presents a counter-narrative to the political reality of “eco-terrorism.” The Spanish translation of Green Is the New Red received an excellent review in “Filosofía Hoy,” a very well-respected magazine in Spain. I love the image as well! Los Verdes Somos Los Nuevos Rojos was published by Plaza y Valdes. Kentucky is the latest state to consider “ag-gag” legislation, which would make it illegal to photograph animal cruelty on farms and slaughterhouses. There are only a few days left in the legislative session in Kentucky, and the lawmakers behind this dangerous proposal are moving quickly. Mashable asked me to respond to the NSA’s address at TED 2014.
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Infobase Publishing - Home Animal Rights Quotes-Library | Animal Rights History Timeline Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching - Teaching By Dan Berrett Cambridge, Mass. A growing body of evidence from the classroom, coupled with emerging research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, is lending insight into how people learn, but teaching on most college campuses has not changed much, several speakers said here at Harvard University at a daylong conference dedicated to teaching and learning. Too often, faculty members teach according to habits and hunches, said Carl E. In large part, the problem is that graduate students pursuing their doctorates get little or no training in how students learn. "It really requires someone to be doubly expert," Mr. Such approaches would demand much more of students and faculty. "We assume that telling people things without asking them to actively process them results in learning," Mr. Many colleges routinely hold seminars on teaching and learning. The Hausers wanted their money to have a broad effect across Harvard's departments and disciplines. Confronting Misconceptions Mr.
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