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.