Science Education Is Under Attack in the State of Texas (Again)
Category: Texas
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Donate Seed Magazine to a High School of Your Choice
Category: causes
Seed just announced that it's making available discounted subscriptions to Seed for donation to high schools. If you're interested, click here, and you can donate a year-long subscription for $14.95 (discounted from $19.95). Surely, exposing students to more interesting, diverse,...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:55 PM • 2 Comments •
Seed Announces Matching Funds for 2008 ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge
Category: DonorsChoose
Seed just announced that it will be matching up to $15,000 in donations to this year's ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge. This is great news, and if you haven't donated already this is a great reason to do it now. There's only one...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:55 PM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose Update: Let's Step it Up!
Category: DonorsChoose
Seed announces prizes for donors, so now there are more reasons than ever to donate to my challenge.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:15 PM • 0 Comments •
We Need You to Help Fund Science Classrooms! ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2008
Category: DonorsChoose
Give early and give often!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Science for a Brave New World
Category: philosophy of science
Is there a certain suite of legislation that needs to be passed now in order to provide a greater assurance of scientific good in the near future?
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:20 PM • 2 Comments •
An Open Letter to Texas Regarding the Forced Resignation of Chris Comer
Category: creationism
If you work for the Texas Education Agency, don't even think about not being neutral about the teaching of intelligent design in science classrooms.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:30 PM • 11 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Raises over $69,000 for Science Classrooms
Category: causes
Thursday was the last day of the month-long DonorsChoose challenge, and ScienceBlogs did incredibly well. You can view the full leaderboard here, but Janet of Adventures in Ethics and Science offers these details: 20 Sb blogs mounted challenges; 12 of...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 12:08 PM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge Update
Category: causes
We've raised $295 at The Scientific Activist on just one week, but we still have $705 to go.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2007: Let's Raise Some Money for Science Classrooms!
Category: events
It's that time of the year again, so give early and give often!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:39 AM • 0 Comments •
Free DonorsChoose Gift Certificates Available from Six Apart Until Noon Today
Category: events
This announcement is related to another bigger one that's coming in just a few hours. Six Apart (who runs MovableType, the blogging platform we use at ScienceBlogs) is giving away $30 philanthropic gift certificates for use on DonorsChoose. The only...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Academic Research: Solving Puzzles or Solving Mysteries?
Category: academia
My message to undergraduate researchers.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Good Science-Related Causes
Category: causes
A categorized list of several worthy causes for readers interested in supporting those working for the progress of science in our society.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:37 AM • 4 Comments •
Pluto: The (Really) Broader Social Context
Category: philosophy of science
For such a small planet (or non-planet now), Pluto sure has been making waves the last couple of weeks. I haven't really weighed in and instead deferred to the experts. I'm not going to really say much now either, but,...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Evolutionary Biology No Longer a Science
Category: Fantastical Fridays
...according the US Department of Education, at least!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:40 AM • 7 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: The End of the Hard Sciences?
Category: Fantastical Fridays
It has been known officially since 2002 that the sciences are hard, and, as much as we scientists love it when our friends and family tell us how smart and wonderful we must be since they could never understand what...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:10 AM • 3 Comments •
Results of DonorsChoose Challenge
Category: events
The ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge is now officially over, and Janet Stemwedel has the results at Adventures in Ethics and Science: 195 of you made donations. Together, those donations added up to $16,097.27. You also helped 4 of the 19 challenges meet...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:10 PM • 2 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Being a Good Science Teacher
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Most of the general qualities that make someone a good teacher in any subject translate to the sciences, but I think there are three things in particular that good science teachers do really well: showing enthusiasm, making things interactive, and drawing connections.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:28 PM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose Update
Category: events
The latest word on the ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose fundraising challenge is that as of Tuesday the total amount of donations had reached $12,325.59, plus $10,000 in matching funds from Seed. Here at The Scientific Activist we've raised $345.00 in generous donations, bringing...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:08 PM • 0 Comments •
World's Science Academies Endorse Teaching of Evolution (Duh!)
Category: evolution
Today, the Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), an organization of 92 scientific academies from around the globe, released a statement endorsing the importance of teaching evolution as a fundamental scientific principle. The IAP emphasizes several uncontested evolutionary facts and stresses the need to teach science as a means of describing nature through a process of inquiry, fundamentally built upon the formulation of testable and refutable hypothesis.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:24 PM • 2 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Off to a Great Start
Category: events
As I've spent my entire weekend alternatively sitting in front of a ginormous magnet running NMR experiments and in front of a computer screen analyzing the data from those experiments, the blogging has unfortunately been light. However, I just wanted...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Organic People Chemistry
Category: Fantastical Fridays
Lurking beneath the surface here at ScienceBlogs is a force that compels people to do extremely gimmicky things on Fridays. Since I know that I'm no better than anyone else, I've decided to join in on the fun. Therefore, I...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:55 AM • 11 Comments •
Help ScienceBlogs Raise Money for Science Classrooms
Category: events
DonorsChoose.org gives us a way to help teachers get the job done. A bunch of us at ScienceBlogs have set up Bloggers Challenges which will let us (and that includes you) contribute to worthy school projects in need of financial assistance. We'll be able to track our progress right on the DonorsChoose site. And -- because we like a little friendly competition -- we'll be updating you periodically as to which blogger's readers are getting his or her challenge closest to its goal.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Is Oxford Shortchanging Its Students Through Overspecialization?
Category: science education
When an Oxford professor blamed a lack of general knowledge in the graduate community on its makeup of "unexceptional students", I challenged him on whether the real cause was a degree structure that causes the overspecialization of Oxford students.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:21 PM • 6 Comments •
