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SUMMERTIME at Cornell…..

And the living is easy…cooling lake breezes …….mountain vistas……Shakespeare at the Plantations…….hiking mountain gorges…all yours…. especially if you’re a science teacher attending our world re-nowned summer workshop! Just click on the image to enlarge. Or visit the main website. Then stock up on sunscreen and seersucker and send in your application.

Need more time?

They can’t make more time for you to get things done, but they may be able to make more of you.   Think Avatars.  No not the movie. However gaming technology is moving ahead so quickly, that a NYT article says the days of sending your avatar to a meeting while you go to yoga […]

Remembering Yuri

On this date in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.  Gagarin flew in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, which wasn’t as a big as a respectable hot tub today. The flight lasted 108 minutes, and unlike later flights, Gagarin left the capsule and parachuted to earth separately. He didn’t have any Tang on […]

First the light, and then the dark

When the Tevatron particle accelerator  at  Fermi Labs was first built in 1983, it was the largest circular accelerator in the world.  Yesterday the facility in Batavia, Illinois announced that it had found evidence of a new particle.  This discovery described as ” the most significant in half a century”  could be the long searched for […]

Shame on us, Part Deux…

The great debate ended this past Sunday, April 3 and The Blog missed it. Climate change ? Evolution ? Dark matter ? No. The first recorded appearance of the ice cream sundae !!! And it happened right here in Ithaca !  A fact that was finally decided by the great arbiter of all things internet, […]

Shame on us…..

Here at THE BLOG we’ve received hundreds of comments delivering a digital dopeslap for our failure to  celebrate March 31st.  A day crucial to all Science teachers. The birthday of Robert Bunsen…inventor of the bunsen burner. No, not him… That’s right. Robert B Bunsen ( the statue) How many adolescents’ introduction to the scientific method […]