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  • The 2013 Flame Challenge Question: What is time?

    tion this year. It’s going to be fun to see how scientists around the world answer   that   one in everyday language.”  According to the press release, the Center for Communicating Science collected about 300 questions from children, ranging from “Does the universe have a known end?” and “How does the brain store all that information?” to “Why are Shetland ponies so small?” But, once the votes were counted, there was one ques…

    Authored by on December 11, 2012

  • Don’t take the Cinnamon Challenge

    o the bathroom later. It burned – it burned really bad. I’ve eaten some super spicy foods, and nothing hurt like that.” Photo courtesy of Microsoft Images. The experience was even worse for Audrey Dodgen, a 31-year-old who tried it with her stepsister and cousins at a family event within the past year. Like Moreno and Elliott, she and her cousins had seen the YouTube videos of people doing the Cinnamon Challenge: a person tries…

    Authored by on April 22, 2013

  • Life and science challenges: flames, Hawkeye, the needle and the damage done

    (source) Of Heroin, Honorable Mentions, and Hawkeye: A day I will never forget By Double X Science Biology Editor Jeanne Garbarino “I look forward to seeing you in 3 months when you will be a whole person again.” Those were my parting words to a special person in my life who was embarking on an undoubtedly difficult journey toward sobriety.  It was only 7:45am on Friday, June 1st, but already I had learned that the strings from a bi…

    Authored by on June 6, 2012

  • Explosions, Just a Bit More Than Fireworks

    …an element (within a compound.) The original definition can easily be shown in terms of explosives. The simple mixing of hydrogen and oxygen with the addition of just a bit of heat, will form water in an explosive display: 2H2 + O2 –> 2H2O The little flame used to catalyze the reaction in the video is actually much more energy than is necessary to cause this reaction to occur, but it’s difficult to get an even littler source of heat…

    Authored by on July 4, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • Book Review: Science Myths Unmasked: Exposing the misconceptions and counterfeits forged by bad science books

    …s to understand science.  Rudel argues that these shortcuts, which are often associated with an “abuse of [scientific] language,” only confuse students. In fact, included on the back cover of Science Myths Unmasked, Volume 2: Physical Sciences is a quote from Richard Feynman regarding science textbooks: “They said things that were useless, mixed-up, ambiguous, confusing, and partially incorrect. How anybody can learn science from these books,…

    Authored by on March 2, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Two Science Online 2012 sessions for your consideration

    Tomorrow, I head for North Carolina to attend Science Online 2012. I attended last year as an  an information sponge  and  observer who knew no one and experienced some  highlights and lowlights . This year, I’m attending as a participant and as a moderator of two sessions. The first session, on Thursday afternoon, is with  Deborah Blum , and we’ll be leading a discussion about how and when to include basic science in health and me…

    Authored by on January 17, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

    …e the one of two females on our Math League squad and to have access to advanced science courses and labs in high school. It seems I always took a circuitous route though. I helped change the rules so that I could graduate in 3 years. I was very fortunate to have lots of opportunities after graduation (including being recruited for the first female class at West Point). But then, I took on other responsibilities and went back to school later to f…

    Authored by on July 9, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

    …lour 1 tablespoon salt Scant 1/2 cup olive oil 1 packet of active dry yeast 1 1/4 cups warm water Favorite olives, roughly chopped if you prefer Handful of fresh basil TIME: Start this mid-afternoon (between 3 and 4 hours before you want to eat it, depending on how fast you are in the kitchen) RECIPE: 1.      In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt with 1Ž4 cup of the olive oil, the yeast & the water. Mix with you…

    Authored by on June 11, 2012

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