by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 2, 2008 | Citizen Science, Science Policy, Social network science
Winner: Bart Leahy. Congratulations! Your Science Cheerleader T-Shirt is on its way. Bart was the first to respond to this post in which readers were challenged to read science fiction books and report back on what “real science” was learned. See here for...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 27, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science
Bart, from Huntsville, AL, posted a comment to this article where I asked what you think the federal government should do to prepare K-12 students for the science and technology driven 21st Century? (One of seven questions recently presented to Congress by a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 24, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science
In Friday’s post, I asked readers this: What do you think the federal government should do to prepare K-12 students for the science and technology driven 21st Century? (One of seven questions recently presented to Congress by a consortium of science...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 13, 2008 | Citizen Science, Social network science
If you’re anything like millions of other adult Americans, you were of legal drinking age before you learned that all engineers do not work on trains. Engineers are the source of technology. They take scientists’ basic (and critical) research and they...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 10, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science, Science Policy
Yesterday, like thousands of other people, I returned home from Washington, D.C. wrapped in the comfort of an Amtrak train. Somewhere close to Baltimore, MD, the conductor announced, “Due to the excessive heat, we will be 15 minutes delayed at every stop.”...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 4, 2008 | Citizen Science, Science Policy
Go ahead. Let it go. Unload the memories of telling your mom: “Why do I have to study this stuff? I’m never going to use it!” Forget the dated science textbooks with the tea-stained pages and that huge, impossible-to-memorize elements chart Mr....
