It's really a bit of departure from the kinds of articles I normally see in Nature, but it's pretty cool anyways. I suppose it's the sort of the thing the authors would like to use teachers to get their students interested, but I'm not sure how many elemtary/secondary school teachers (much less students!) actually read Nature.
Let the science begin!
http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html
edit: there is an actual science article that accompanies this piece, but I don't think you can access it unless you or your school has a subscription.
Well this is kind of neat...
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Well this is kind of neat...
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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Technomancer - Posts: 2379
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Lol! That reminds me of all the fun I had as an undergraduate trying to get bacterial stocks to make protein (while I was a slave, er, intern at the Salk Institute in the structural biochemistry lab). Fortunately I didn't have to make the plasmid -- that came prefabbed; I just had to do all the grunt work of placing it, incubation and then separation.
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Kinda reminds me of The Magic School bus...in the sense that they are trying to make Science more interesting.
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ChristianRonin wrote:Kinda reminds me of The Magic School bus...in the sense that they are trying to make Science more interesting.
I expect it's something like that. Then again, anyone who reads Nature is probably already interested in science.
Lol! That reminds me of all the fun I had as an undergraduate trying to get bacterial stocks to make protein (while I was a slave, er, intern at the Salk Institute in the structural biochemistry lab).
You worked at the Salk Institute. Cool!. They have a lot of really good neuroscience people there.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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Technomancer - Posts: 2379
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Yeah I liked the Magic School bus because they went to funky places... Like inside some guys body. I couldn't of cared less about the science back then XD
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Mr. SmartyPants - Posts: 12541
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Technomancer wrote:You worked at the Salk Institute. Cool!. They have a lot of really good neuroscience people there.
They do. At the time, though, I figured biochem would translate into a better medical school application ^_^;; And the PI did write me a nice letter of recommendation.
If I'd had my druthers now, I might have fiddled over in their cog sci labs as well, but I did that on the main UCSD campus instead.
"you're a doctor.... and 27 years.... so...doctor + 27 years = HATORI SOHMA" - RoyalWing, when I was 27
"Al hail the forum editting Shooby! His vibes are law!" - Osaka-chan
I could still be champ, but I'd feel bad taking it away from one of the younger guys. - George Foreman
"Al hail the forum editting Shooby! His vibes are law!" - Osaka-chan
I could still be champ, but I'd feel bad taking it away from one of the younger guys. - George Foreman
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