Posts from the ‘education’ category

A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change

The author of The Ethics of Climate Change, James Garvey, has an interesting essay on the same topic (hat tip: OIIFTG): I’ll start with some easy…

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“Science of Climate Change” lectures: hits and misses.

This week, I get to relax a little for the ASIC course, since Allen will now take the reins and look at some of the social…

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More Intuitive Ways of Looking at Climate Data

  [Original source; Hat Tip – OIIFTG] I really like this graph for two reasons: It does a great job representing the current warming trend over…

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A Terry Science Experiment: Redux

While sitting in the kick-off ASIC class this evening, a few unconnected things Dr. Ng and Dr. Sens said resonated with me. As Dr. Sens explained,…

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The Globe 2008 Student Sponsorship Program

Happy New Year to all! And to bring the new year in on a high note, check out the great opportunity offered by the Globe Foundation…

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Share Your Student Experience with the B.C. Government

Here is a great opportunity to share your experience as a university student in British Columbia and how you would like to see that experience change.…

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Making a list,checking it twice: My Holiday Reading

I can’t stop thinking about Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ve always prided myself on being a bookworm, but her words…

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A 60 second lecture on “Human History”

Just caught this at Boingboing: Here you have history professor, Dr. Alan Charles Kors, attempting to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 60 second…

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The Art of Science – The Science of Art?

We started a new unit in my grade 12 biology class yesterday, on the mechanisms of inheritance. I wanted to impress on my students how the…

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Intelligent Design on Trial

Duh, over! Intelligent Design is not real science. You can’t teach it in science class. Debate over. Perhaps you remember the good ‘ol flying spaghetti monster.…

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