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Why I Am an Entomologist

Sculb sumitted ago via http://thedragonflywoman.com (Views: 47, Clicks: 5)
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Dragonfly Woman -- The end of 2011 is coming up fast! This time of year is often a time of reflection where we ponder the past and make plans for the future. In that spirit, today I’d like to tell you all a bit about my childhood and my family, what I believe led to my becoming an entomologist. I’ll get back to the sciencey posts on Science Sunday and into the new year.

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Learning Foreign Languages

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 79, Clicks: 7)
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Speech is the way you interact with the world. It is not just travel that requires knowing foreign languages. It is something that, scared as some people are, is essential for navigating even the United States. Not just Spanish, but Chinese and other Asian languages can be useful for local navigation. And the world gets more interesting when you can understand what it is saying...

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Next Will Walker Sell Bank of America Naming Rights to High Schools?

Sculb sumitted ago via http://blog.buzzflash.com (Views: 83, Clicks: 2)
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This got BuzzFlash thinking: what would happen to high schools if the Republicans continue to get their way in legalizing corporate government and the privatization of public assets? First of all, we would see naming rights sold for high schools as we have seen for stadiums. So the Bronx High School of Science would be renamed the Bank of America High School of Science, with, no doubt, a bank branch open next to the cafeteria.

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Why Geology is Important; Why Education is Important...

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 114, Clicks: 5)
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Why is geology important? Geology provides us with a new mythology of the world, one that's based on a better understanding of the processes of our planet. We don't just see an earthquake happen on the surface and jump to the conclusion that a giant turtle that underlies our bit of land has taken a few steps. Instead we explored new pathways to knowledge that revealed that the earth itself is releasing energy...

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Getting schooled, not educated

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 91, Clicks: 2)
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We teach high school students to focus on graduation, instead of education. The entire educational establishment teaches students to focus on grades (which are often arbitrary measures of a student’s work ethic) instead of on learning and displaying subject competence, creativity, original thinking or intellectual growth. Colleges in this regard are no different...

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Public Education: Testing 1-2-3...

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 89, Clicks: 3)
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Memorizing a set of facts so that one will "know" them on a particular day may result in a passing score, but ultimately nothing will actually be learned. Requiring everyday work with respect to a literary text, studying literature as it is meant to be studied (read -> think -> write -> discuss -> repeat), that produces actual literacy.

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