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I am an exploration geologist working in metals. I have considered myself an environmentalist for as long as I have known the term. I recycle, reduce, and reuse as much as I can. I have an old car, it gets ~28 mpg, and I try not to use it. I dont buy frivolous toys. I advocate renewable...

I am starting to get actively involved in promoting rational thinking and skepticism among the parents of my kids' school. Since I live in Mexico, one of my goals is to build a list of science, skeptic and rational thinking resources in Spanish that could be of help to them and to me. My...

By "we" I refer to the human race itself. I'm listening to author Jeffery Sachs, who's discussing his new book, Common Wealth. He's the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He paints a rather bleak picture. We are all familiar with these things, of course...

Back in the 80’s when I was a Senior Laboratory Technician in an engineering lab, I use to get a lot of scientific and technical periodicals for free. Most of the technical periodicals wre just advertising vehicles but sometimes had decent articles. One of my (none advertisement) favorites was...

I have a child starting fifth grade and tonight he brought home his science textbook. The specific book in question is Scott Foresman Science (2003). I wanted to see if I could find a review of the text and did a little bit of googling to see what I could find, but didn't come up with anything...

A lot of people in here seem to have problems using boards after being banned for fascistic, non-democratic reasons: 1. Make sure you have deleted the Cookies from the Forum you were banned of. 2. If you have a static IP, use a proxy-server that does not transfer your IP-Adress. For example...

Limited funding in education is an eternal problem in most countries. Many educational institutions address this through corporate cooperation, where large companies sponsor the resourcing of schools. I normally have small problem with this, as both parties benefit with minimal compromise to...

JREF Education Resources juggernaut has begun to roll again, now that school is winding down. Check out lesson plan 1 . I've done five full lesson plans with some resources. Not a lot, but it is picking up speed now that I have the format down pat. It will be needing a lot of criticism and...

As a result of TAM3, I've decided to accelerate my creation of a skepticism / critical thinking unit. I was originally going to get stuck into it just before I returned back to an Australian teaching job, as I could implement such a unit in a Queensland school easier than I could in a UK...

My wife's church group is having a "Health Fair" on June 14, where the women's group meets for three hours and can choose to attend different 45 minute presentations on health issues (breast cancer, menopause, nutrition etc.) Since my wife is in charge, she's making sure all the presentations...