Hiking the tow path, past the eagles's nest...

http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/power-of-narrative-conference-mary-roachs-bad-habits/
This is an article from Neiman Storyboard about science journalist/author Mary Roach's narrative style.





http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6284/408.full
Article in Science magazine about food waste





http://www.wired.com/2016/04/science-professors-arent-confusing-theyre-wrong/
From Wired, about how biology is not "clear-cut".

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/27/brain-atlas-showing-how-words-are-organised-neuroscience
According to Guardian Science, UC Berkeley neuroscientists have created an atlas of the brain which shows which parts of the brain respond to certain words and have created a website where people can explore the brain atlas:

https://youtu.be/k61nJkx5aDQ

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/ice-lake-suwa-japan-torne-river-climate-change-monk-shinto/
News from National Geographic about Shinto monks recording climate change data for the past 6 centuries.




https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160428124108.htm
From the British Journal of Nutrition, how eating chocolate every day can help your heart as reported in Science Daily.

http://labblog.uofmhealth.org/health-tech/artificial-placenta-holds-promise-for-extremely-premature-infants The University of Michigan reports research that an artificial placenta can help extreme premies. This research is preliminary and hasn't gone into clinical trials yet.

https://youtu.be/r4Tp7dm2Blo


https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/09/college-is-not-a-commodity-stop-treating-it-like-one/ From the Washington Post, an article about the commodification of higher education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnOTprOTHc8&feature=youtu.be  360 degree tour of the solar system from The Thought Cafe on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FyN5_-njAU Here's another 360 degrees tour I confess I haven't looked at yet.

April in Bordentown- Soireeing into Nature's Beauty

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/science/scientists-unveil-new-tree-of-life.html?_r=0
Possible that I posted this before but there is a lot of excitement in an updated evolutionary tree even though humans are, at the most, bit players. This study will be published in Nature Microbiology

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/your-money/taking-on-the-phd-later-in-life.html
Another NYT article about a doctoral student in plant biology who will receive his degree at the age of 66.

http://gawker.com/income-inequality-institute-will-pay-paul-krugman-25-0-1563245534
From Gawker, a report of Paul Krugman's adjunct pay at CUNY. I wonder if he will become a member of the faculty union. Why is this man smiling?


http://monthlyreview.org/2016/04/01/living-the-eleventh-thesis/
An article in the Monthly Review Press about science and communism.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem 
From npr a report on how school funding is calculated.



 A refutation of Malcolm Gladwell's precept about 10,000 hours of practicing being the prerequisite for expertise in every field from Salon: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/malcolm_gladwell_got_us_wrong_our_research_was_key_to_the_10000_hour_rule_but_heres_what_got_oversimplified/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nci-opens-online-platform-submit-ideas-about-research-cancer-moonshot  Here's your chance to submit your ideas about the cancer "moonshot" to the NIH.

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/04/18/getting-inside-students-minds-why-misconceptions-are-so-powerful/ A professor of science education at Harvard discusses with KQED why students' miconceptions are so hard to counteract.




 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/ From The Atlantic, an article about the treatment of adjunct faculty by universities.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/science/in-towering-redwoods-an-abundance-of-tiny-unseen-life.html?_r=0  An article from the NYT (Science Times) about biodiversity in the redwoods of California.


http://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away
In the journal Psychological Science (oxymoron!) a study has been published by the University of California and Princeton showing that students learn more by taking notes by hand instead of using their computers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-wealthy-americans-divided-and-conquered-the-poor-to-create-the-concept-of-race/2016/04/19/2cab6e38-0643-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html
Article in the Washington Post about a US history teacher who dispels his students' notions that race is as old as history.

http://ncse.com/blog/2016/04/well-said-carl-zimmer-theories-0017021
The National Center for Science Education's Stephanie Keep's blog discusses Carl Zimmer's New York Times articles on misconceptions, particularly the misconception of the word "theory."



http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/bad-job-market-phds/479205/
From the Atlantic figures obtained by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center show that the job market for Ph.Ds is shrinking.


http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/neil-shubin-part-1.html
From Neil Shubin, the evolution of limbs from fins.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/14/keep-harriet-tubman-and-all-women-off-the-20-bill/ Article in the Washington Post suggesting that Harriet Tubman not replace Andrew Jackson on the $10 bill.

Blogpost April 10- For lack of a more imaginative title

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/upshot/why-talented-black-and-hispanic-students-can-go-undiscovered.html 
In the Sunday NYT Education Life section, an article about a new non-verbal test that represents high IQ black and hispanic children more accurately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/upshot/why-talented-black-and-hispanic-students-can-go-undiscovered.html
From The Scientific American: The science of President Trump.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/taking-the-politics-out-of-american-history-and-out-of-ap.html 
The AP History curriculum is considered too progressive and has been revised.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/01/28/citing-harm-that-charter-schools-cause-naacp-and-mass-lawyers-committee-will-intervene-in-charter-cap-lawsuit?event=event51
Claiming that charter schools place diverse students at a disadvantage, NAACP and mass lawyers committee intervene.

http://ed.ted.com/featured/yNZomgbm
A TED Talk- Proof of evolution you can find on your own body.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/changing-climate-10-years-after-inconvenient-truth
Climate change ten years after "An Inconvenient Truth" from Science News.

https://richarddawkins.net/2016/04/the-importance-of-giving-children-independence/ From Richard Dawkins's website, an article about the importance of giving children independence.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/352/6282/123.full.pdf
Great article in Science by one of my heroes, Harold Varmus, on the transformation of oncology.

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-way-to-make-their-own-molecules
From ScienceAlert, a report on research by Swiss researchers on how to make molecules from scratch, mimicing the body's natural processes.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45584/title/Banking-on-Blood-Tests/
From The Scientist, an article about replacing diagnostics with blood tests looking at Biomarkers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/jobs/the-art-and-science-of-nit-picking.html?_r=0
From the NYT On Work section, "The Art and Science of Nit-Picking" about a retired school nurse and nits.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-project-uncovers-what-americans-knew-about-holocaust-180958712/ New project to discover what Americans knew about the holocaust is reported in the Smithsonian. The work is being done by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.



http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/14/465729968/a-nobel-laureates-education-plea-revolutionize-teaching This is from npr Education, Stanford Professor Carl Wieman has some suggestions about new methods of teaching.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/a-radical-attempt-to-save-the-reefs-and-forests
How to save the world's coral reefs from the NYer.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26929-both-cause-and-cure-for-diabetes-could-be-in-your-gut/ From the New Scientist, a hormone to cure diabetes has been discovered.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45839/title/CDC--Zika-Causes-Microcephaly/ From The Scientist, link between Zika and Microcephaly.


http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7597-139a Article in Nature about character traits of scientists.

http://scitechdaily.com/children-of-older-mothers-are-healthier-taller-and-obtain-more-education/ From SciTechDaily, report of research in the Population and Development Review that children of older mothers are healthier, taller, and obtain more education.

60 mph winds, Nature's response to the Trumpster

http://www.the-scientist.com/?magazines.view/magazineIssueNo/1686/title/Cancer-s-Grip
The new issue of The Scientists is devoted to cancer research.

https://soundcloud.com/inquiringminds/127-carl-zimmer-the-mysterious-world-of-viruses
An Interview from Sound Cloud with Carl Zimmer about viruses.

http://teachhistmed.com/2016/03/28/teaching-history-of-medicine-with-artifacts-and-oral-histories/ An article from the American Association of the History of Medicine about teaching the history of medicine using artifacts.

http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/researchers-successfully-removed-hiv-dna-human-immune-cells-using-gene-editing From The Science Explorer: A report of a research study dine at Temple University using gene gene editing to remove HIV from infected cells.  The results of this study were published in Scientific Reports.

https://richarddawkins.net/2016/03/dinosaurs-among-us-retraces-an-evolutionary-path/ Richard Dawkins' website is promoting the exhibit, "Dinosaurs Among Us", about birds, at the Museum of Natural History in NYC.  Thomas Henry Huxley, in the 1860s proposed the theory that dinosaurs never really left the earth.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-future-of-academic-style-why-citations-still-matter-in-the-age-of-google  This is from the London Review of Books about the future of citations in the digital age.