life science education

I admit it is hard to imagine a National Center for Science Education without Genie Scott; the NCSE was Genie, and Genie was the NCSE. But I think I know what Genie would say if she heard me say that. The NCSE will be fine without her, Ann Reid is going to do great, etc. etc. And, I'm sure that is all true, owing both to Ann Reid being an excellent choice of Executive Director, and because Genie and the other staff at NCSE have done an excellent job. Here's part of the announcement of the change in leadership, which happened yesterday: Ann Reid is joining NCSE as Executive Director,…
There is an updated version of this post here: "Is Blood Ever Blue, Science Teachers Want To Know!" According to one of the leading experts on the human circulatory system, blood flowing through veins is blue. I'm not going to mention any names. All I'll say is this: A person I know visited a major research center last year and saw a demonstration of organ removal and some other experimental stuff. A person also visiting asked the famous high-level researcher doing this work if blood was ever blue. What he said was not recorded in detail, but it was very much like this statement I found…