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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher. Follow Dave on twitter @dnghub.

- Vince LiCata is a faculty member in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Louisiana State University (LSU). His laboratory studies protein-ligand interactions, protein folding, and biothermodynamics. He also writes plays that have been produced in a number of different US cities, and, oddly enough, in Thailand.

- Benjamin Cohen was a co-founder and is now Blogger Laureate at The World's Fair. He teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). Now you can find him at brcohen.net.

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Bill Rees - Towards Sustainability: Does Science Matter?

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Recently, we had an opportunity to host a variety of great talks for science teachers. One of the talks was by Dr. William Rees. It was a nice little introduction into the conundrum of our reliance on "progress" to...

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Posted by David Ng at 5:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Candy Hierarchy Anew (Halloween Experiment Debriefing '08)

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

New breakthrough in this year's stratigraphy. Big news. Huge, chewy news. Sticky, chocolatey chewy news.

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

October 28, 2008

Killing Pigs Old Style, Killing 'Em New Style

Category: Industrial Agriculture

Same ole same ole when it comes to animal slaughter.

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:00 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Our High School Science Teacher Conference - It Rocked!

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

So, this is one of the things that has been keeping me busy the last couple of weeks. Essentially, the lab hosted a largish conference for high school science teachers (about 95 registrants) - as well, we took the tact...

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Posted by David Ng at 10:33 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

October 27, 2008

Engineers and poetry

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Friend of the Fair Oronte Churm has a note on engineers over at The Education of Oronte Churm, "The Engineers Think On It." Eating at a diner with a book of poetry in hand, he posits the engineer's quest for...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb (Landscape and Modernity: Series 3)

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

In which we see: soldiers (humanity), nuclear blasts (inhumanity), and the sky (supra-humanity).

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

October 26, 2008

"A Partial History of My Stupidity"

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Forgive me, faith, for never having any.

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

October 24, 2008

Look at the Size of U.S. Nukes, and Other Things Too

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

The Telegraph's website has an "Atlas of the Real World." There are 18 different versions of the world map, where software depicts "the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 5:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

October 23, 2008