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June 01, 2016Michael Bodekaer: This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class
Virtual reality is no longer part of some distant future, and it's not just for gaming and entertainment anymore. Michael Bodekaer wants to use it to make quality education more accessible. In this refreshing talk, he demos an idea that could revolutionize the way we teach science in schools.
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| Education - Wednesday June 1st, 2016 | Send to a Friend
What Science Says About GMOs
“What Science Says About GMOs” at the 68th annual Conference on World Affairs in Boulder. Alex Berezow, the Founding Editor of RealClearScience, explains the science of GMOs to a rowdy anti-GMO crowd. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Thursday April 7th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
How the Pacific Northwest Is Preparing for a Catastrophic Tsunami
It’s when, not if, the Pacific Northwest is due for a major seismic disaster; scientists say there’s a 37 percent chance one could strike in the next 50 years. FEMA estimates such an earthquake and resulting tsunami could kill thousands and leave a million more homeless. But some concerned coastal communities are working to make sure they’re ready when it hits.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: I’m standing on the coast of Washington. This is the very edge of the continental United States. And just a few miles out in the Pacific Ocean is considered one of the most dangerous seismic faults in all of North America.
Scientists believe if that fault were to rupture, it could devastate much of the Pacific Northwest. The fault is known as the Cascadia subduction zone, where two tectonic plates meet underneath the Pacific Ocean. This fault line stretches 700 miles along the coast.
KEN MURPHY: Earthquakes have no season. It’s earthquake season every day.
BRANGHAM: Ken Murphy is FEMA’s regional administrator. He oversees emergency operations for the Northwest region. He says if this whole fault were to rupture, not only would there be a catastrophic earthquake, but that quake would then trigger an enormous tsunami, which would crash into the Pacific Northwest minutes later.
MURPHY: You roughly have about 140,000 square miles of communities and land and people up and down Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
BRANGHAM: Major cities like Seattle, Vancouver and Portland could be seriously damaged. FEMA estimates that in an 8- or 9-magnitude quake, nearly 13,000 people could be killed, with another 20,000 injured. A million people would be made homeless.
And to some, these are conservative estimates.
MURPHY: It’s not just FEMA, but how we as a nation are going to respond to this, because it’s really going to take everybody’s efforts. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Wednesday March 23rd, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Why Science Is Not 'Just a Theory'
(via Royal Institution) Have you ever heard ‘evolution’ dismissed as ‘just a theory’? Is a scientific theory no different to the theory that Elvis is still alive? Jim Al-Khalili puts the record straight. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Wednesday November 12th, 2014 | Send to a Friend
The Day of the Girl
Says philosopher Jason Silva, "When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." Schooling should be a basic right for all women across the world. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Tuesday October 8th, 2013 | Send to a Friend
How to Set the Table
(Via TEDEd) Can't remember where your soup spoon ought to go? What about your salad fork? Knowing how to set a traditional table can seem like antiquated etiquette -- but it can come in handy! Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of etiquette expert Emily Post, shows how to set a table with a plate full of tips and tricks to boot -- even your grandmother will be impressed. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Thursday June 27th, 2013 | Send to a Friend
Want Your Kids to Be Good at Science? Get Out of Their Way
Neil deGrasse Tyson asserts that kids are born curious. Thus, if we as parents want them to be scientifically literate, all we need to do is stay out of their way. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Tuesday May 14th, 2013 | Send to a Friend
American Education Stymies the Mind
(Via TED) Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Education - Friday May 10th, 2013 | Send to a Friend
Four Pillars of College Success in Science
(Via TED) At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works to create an environment that helps under-represented students -- specifically African-American, Latino and low-income learners -- get degrees in math and science. He shares the four pillars of UMBC's approach. Send to a Friend | Permalink