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AskScience Live a Success! (I think) #askscilive
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 12, 2013 Ever wondered if we could identify someone by their breath? How fast you can propel a rocket using fusion power? If you can shoot at a plane with lasers and cause the pilot to burst into flame? Watch AskScience Live! Despite some technical hurdles with the G+ event, I’d say it went well last night.…
Ask Science… Live! Thursday at 6pm EDT #askscilive
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 9, 2013 I’m trying something new. For several years now, I’ve been contributing to an online community called r/askscience. It’s a place where curious people can ask questions, and have them answered – often with great, yet understandable detail – by expert scientists that have a passion for explaining their work. It’s an amazing forum, and I’m…
Lecture 3a – Cell Biology and the Organization of Multicellular Life #SC-214
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 18, 2013 [This past fall, I taught a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first-time college instructor] One of the biggest challenges in organizing this class was figuring out how to incorporate readings into the class material. Since I wanted to give the…
PeerJ – the science journal we need and deserve
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 12, 2013 I spend a lot of time thinking about the scientific method. I don’t mean that thing you learned in high school, where you make an observation, form a hypothesis, design an experiment etc etc. That’s certainly part of the scientific method, but the linear formula that freshmen are typically forced to memorize sucks the life…
AskScience: Is it possible to get multiple different colds/flu viruses at the same time?
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 15, 2013 There are a lot of reasons that posts to this blog sometimes don’t happen for months at a time, but one of them is that I can often get sucked down the rabbit hole that is Reddit. If you don’t know about reddit yet, you may not want to click that link, but if you…
Lecture 2b: Genes, Traits and the Central Dogma.
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 13, 2013 [This past fall, I taught a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] In my first lecture, I used Powerpoint (well, technically Keynote), but I personally like chalk-talks a quite a bit more. Never mind the fact that classrooms…
Lecture 2a: Intro to Evolution
Posted by Kevin Bonham on December 22, 2012 [This past fall, I taught a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] Most of this post was written back in September, when it still seemed possible that I would be able to teach the class, write the…
I’m back baby!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on December 21, 2012 I disappeared for a while to teach a class. At the outset I had grand plans – Not only would I design the course from scratch, give the lectures, and grade the assignments, I would also write up all of the lectures for the blog and maintain my same level pf productivity in the lab.…
Lecture 1: Why is Science Awesome? #Emerson #SC214
Posted by Kevin Bonham on September 10, 2012 [This fall, I'm teaching a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] Lecture 1 That was a scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, demonstrating the lighter side of the plague. Who knew there was a lighter…
Plagues and Pandemics – Emerson SC-214
Posted by Kevin Bonham on August 28, 2012 For the past 3 years, I’ve had the opportunity to spend a week in a house on a beautiful lake in Vermont. Usually, this week is a chance to completely unplug. I take some photos, buy a bunch of books from Northshire and read them, and lounge around. On this past trip however, I received…
