Science Education & Policy

I have just finished four slides (well, five, if you count the cover) which I will show at ESOF 2010, the "EuroScience Open Forum" which is starting in Torino tomorrow. At ESOF, Sense About Science has organized two interesting sessions. One of t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2011 - 5:17pm

Discovery of the quaternion waltz

When some members of a discussion group asked me to write a small course on Hilbert spaces, I decided to define that Hilbert space over the quaternions. Futher I wanted to indicate the relation between this Hilbert space and quantum logic on the one hand ...

Blog Post - Hans van Leunen - Jul 5 2010 - 10:38am

Why Don't Science Writers Write About Science Education?

I don't get why science writers don't cover science education. They cover whatever cool science is the flavor of the moment, they cover disasters and the science behind them, they cover scientists but they don't cover the kids who are going ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Jul 22 2010 - 11:24am

What Does An Engineer Do?

I have been working with scientists and engineers on explaining their research and other work to the general public for almost a decade. I've explained the science of many things and how they connect to the real lives of real people. But it occurred t ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Jul 31 2010 - 3:15pm

Open Science Summit 2010 This Weekend

This weekend marks the launch of the inaugural Open Science Summit conference in Berkeley, CA. ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 31 2010 - 6:22pm

Who Assesses The Assessors? Bias Tests For Standardized Tests Biased

What if assumptions of bias factored into test results to overcome social or cultural bias that prevents some people from achieving high test scores turned out to be flawed? That's a messy sentence, right? Confusing sentences like that are what happ ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2010 - 12:04am

Texting and Driving- Where's the Research?

I'm in the process of developing a lesson plan on distracted driving for high school teachers. AAAS intends to put it up on its teacher web site, Science NetLinks. There are a handful of studies available, but shouldn't this be a major science an ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Aug 4 2010 - 4:58pm

Popeye Cartoons Linked To Better Nutrition In Kids

That title reads like a headline from The Onion, right? Researchers have noted that while media is often blamed for violence and poor grades in kids, it can also do some good. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of ve ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2010 - 10:15am

'Classroom Of The Future' Gets A Summit- In A Dictatorship

Education experts are going to have input into a 'classroom of the future' at a forthcoming summit in Bahrain. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2010 - 11:48am

Brain Candy- Make Your Intelligence So Big It Can Be Seen From Space

Junk food will make your waistline bigger, which is bad for you, and candy is no exception. But candy that makes your intelligence bigger? Garth Sundem's Brain Candy is here to satisfy your intellectual sweet tooth. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2010 - 3:11pm