Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2020

Punctuated Equilibrium and the New Academic World That We Live In (along with the rest of society)

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Catastrophe Three weeks ago I was lecturing and running labs like a regular professor. I had never gotten around to learning Canvas or ...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019

50th Anniversary of the Landing of Humans on the Moon, and the Human Adventure

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The full Moon of July 16, 2019  Today marks the 50th year since humans walked on the moon for the first time. The landing was an...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Wait a Minute...What Happened to the Rocks I Picked Out?

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Something kind of extraordinary happened on campus this week. I was pausing between classes and saw a large truck and a crane downstairs i...
Friday, November 2, 2018

I Went Rock Collecting Today...For Really, Really Big Rocks

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I'm thinking how many times I've been on a field trip looking at a massive boulder composed of some kind of interesting rock and m...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Isn't All Geology in the Field? Well, Here's an Exciting Field

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There's an ugly vacant lot adjacent to the Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College (the science lab and museum where I wor...
Friday, July 20, 2018

49th Anniversary of the Landing of Humans on the Moon: Science, History, and the Doing of Big Things

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The Moon tonight, July 20th, 2018 Today marks the 49th year since humans walked on the moon for the first time. The landing was an im...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Sounds of Science (with apologies to Paul Simon): Kids are More Talented Than You Think

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Strange things were afoot on Saturday at Modesto Junior College, where I've been teaching for the last thirty years. There was a Tyran...
Monday, May 1, 2017

The Hawai'i That Was: Waimea Canyon, the View You "Have" to Earn...

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You may be utterly surprised by this, but I was kind of a strange kid . I loved the outdoors of course, and was absolutely fascinated by g...
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