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That's part of the title of podcast by Kat Arney who interviews Matthew Cobb [ Double helix double crossing? What really happened betwee...

The November 16th issue of Nature has an article about ChatGPT: ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education . It ...

Science in School is a magazine for European science teachers. Two graduate students 1 have just published an article in the November issu...

Here are a few questions for ChatGPT and its answers. The AI program takes the most common information on the web and spews it back at you. ...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

There's a lot of talk about ChatGPT and how it can prepare lectures and get good grades on undergraduate exams. However, ChatGPT is only...

So many books ... so little time.

I just read an annoying article in Boston Review: The Inflated Promise of Science Education . It was written by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, a Pr...

Here's an example of a press release that distorts science by promoting incorrect information that is not found in the actual publicatio...

I used to think that Wikipedia was a pretty good source of information even for scientific subjects. It wasn't perfect, but most of the ...

Science editors asked young scientists to imagine what kind of course they would have created if they could go back to a time before the pa...

Here's an interesting presentation by Sean B. Carroll, the evolutionary biologist and author of several books on evolution. He's als...

Rama Singh, 1 a biology professor at McMaster Universtiy in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) has just published an interesting article on The Con...

The Central Dogma of molecular biology states ... ... once (sequential) information has passed into protein it cannot get out again (F....

I was looking at the Vision and Change document the other day and it made me realize that very little has changed in undergraduate educatio...

We learned back in 2012 that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were going to transform higher education. People all over the world, especi...

This is the 2019 Killian lecture at MIT, delivered in April 2019 by Gerald Fink . Fink is an eminent scientist who has done excellent work o...

Press releases have become a serious problem. I'm frequently upset whenever I read a press release covering a field I'm familiar wit...

Dan Riskin: The Good, Bad, & Natural: What Mother Nature says about morality? Thursday, April 12, 2018 7:30 - 10:00 pm The Franklin...