Category: Climate change
Some of us walk by the bus stop and nervously glance at the scruffy-looking man carrying the ragged sign. I try not to breathe through my nose while I read...
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Category: Science education
Yet another Bio-Link blog post. The San Francisco bay area has experienced phenomenal growth in both the number of biotech companies and the need to find employees. But, no matter...
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Category: Ask a Science Blogger
Science Blogs has asked: What makes a good science teacher? Many of the science teachers that I've met can't really be described by the adjective "good." The better fitting words...
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Category: Humor
This important question, posed by Benjamin Cohen of The World's Fair, is one that cannot be ignored. And, most importantly, can be quickly answered....
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Category: Climate change
I recently completed a long trip out-of-town, giving a presentation at a Bio-Link conference in Berkeley, and teaching a couple of bioinformatics classes at the University of Texas, through the...
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Category: Announcements
Two new carnivals were posted recently that you may want to investigate. The latest edition of the pediatric grand rounds is up. You will laugh, you will cry, and you...
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Category: Science education
We can't all be like Bill Gates and help education through a large foundation, but we can do our part! My co-science bloggers have started this wonderful fund-raiser for helping...
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Category: Science education
Blogging from Bio-Link, part III High school teachers have different techniques for selling their students on the benefits of science and math. When some high school instructors step in front...
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Category: Science education
"It's all about saving Aunt Millie"
Bob Swanson
Co-Founder, Genentech
More blogging from Bio-Link
These next two posts salute instructors who teach in community college and high school biotechnology programs.
Confronted with the daily routines of doing lab work, or keeping up with latest genotyping techniques or chromatography tools, some of us might forget that there's more to biotechnology than just the science.
There are others who will never forget.
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Category: Science education
Blogging from Bio-Link, part I I am currently in Berkeley attending the 2006 Bio-Link summer fellows' workshop. It's hard to believe that it's been eight years since the first workshop...
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