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profile.gif David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.

profile.gifBenjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.

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Books that are just good - literature in general:

Don't you just hate the difference between seeing things 'as they are' and 'as they ought to be'?

Where viewer and viewed are fused into an indivisible whole. More on Errol Morris, with Richard Powers back to help again.

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Or, From Crimea to Prussia to Scienceblogs

"Invention stopping the fluctuations of nature": Part 7 in a series on truth, evidence, and everything there is.

The 100-Mile Diet. Could you eat only food grown and produced within a 100 mile radius of your home?

It looks like a lot, but really it's not (hey, that rhymes) Clearly, food is a hot topic these days. You see it constantly in the cultural dominance of things like the Food Channel, Martha Stewart, or The Iron...

Vonnegut Week Continues at The World's Fair

Ode to "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" (1950). The "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" was Vonnegut's first published story, appearing in Collier's. That was while he was working at GE in public relations, and after he was a chemistry major,...

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

How great is this book? It's that great, that's how much. But beyond superficial (and meaningless) qualifiers like "great," this book does a remarkable job of fascinating me, interesting students, and standing alone as entertaining fiction. I use it in...

Science book #5: About nothing to do with science, about everything to do with science - "Once Upon an Ordinary Day at School" by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura

This book is a lovely piece of prose with geat artwork that looks at the power of how certain experiences, and more specifically certain teachers can provide the inspiration that ultimately makes a person who they are....

Science book #3: About picking up the jargon - "Katie and the Dinosaurs" by James Mayhew

This book makes the cut, not necessarily because I find it particularly endearing (although it is a lovely story, and ever so British in a Paddington Bear sort of way), but because this is the book responsible for my kids,...

Science book #2: About silliness and running amok with a scientific theme - "Your Disgusting Head" by Haggis-On Whey

In Norway, you say "buse." As a geneticist, I am a lot more familiar with the concept of snot than one might suspect. And although this may appear to be a sort of an odd soundbite, it can be...

Science Book #1: About pace, and the desire for fixes - "The Missing Piece" by Shel Silverstein

I thought I would start with this great picture story book, although in truth I could have easily started with another by the same author (the always irrepressible, but sadly missed away Shel Silverstein). The other, of course, is...

Something I'm guessing, you wouldn't expect on scienceblogs.com: Children's Book Review Week.

As alluded to earlier, I'm attending a Children's Book Workshop this week. So to stay in theme (hence also the post about the Von Trapp Children), I thought I would try to provide a children's book review for each of...

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