Science for the classroom and beyond
For this episode, we took a suggestion from one of our listeners. Nathan from Western Maine writes: For almost a year now I have been listening to the podcast called “Skeptoid,” recorded and published by a good skeptic fellow named Brian Dunning. He researches and reports on subjects like alternative medicine and paranormal occurrences in a weekly podcast that lasts […]
Read moreYesterday a student came up to me and explained that she had been injected with a radioactive isotope for a medical scan. She then asked if she was still radioactive. Expecting the isotope to be mostly decayed or simply too small to notice, I wanted to calm her fears with a Geiger counter check. The results surprised me, and she […]
Read morehttps://archive.org/download/lab-out-loud/LOL026.mp3 Dr. Sean B. Carroll returns to the show this week to celebrate Darwin Day (Feb. 12, 2009). With two new books out (Remarkable Creatures and Into the Jungle), Dr. Carroll discusses the power of storytelling in teaching science. In fact, he even treats us with a story of how Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace and Henry Walter Bates all […]
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