Welcome to Science!

Science is such an important part of life. Today, many young students don't like science, and, yet, they use science every day. Nation building requires people that think scientifically and analytically. It requires people skilled in deep thinking. The skills are commonly known as higher order thinking skills or HOT skills.

Much of education has been about copying and memorizing and spewing back information, according to many. Today, however, much learning is hands on. Science is a wonderful example of hands on learning requiring HOT skills.

Forget about education for the moment and take the case of scientists, themselves: A scientist builds on history of science and must know "facts" discovered earlier, however, he or she then designs and experiment, does the experiment, collects data, analyzes the pure data, then reflects on that data in context of previously known "facts" and the society of the day. The scientists reflection is in the discussion and conclusions of a laboratory report. The data are kept separately, in the results part of a laboratory report. In this way, data can always be available for re-evaluation in context of newer eras and additionally known "facts" in the future.

So, welcome to science. Hands on, data accumulation, evaluation and analysis and then: CREATIVITY. How can science be utilized to solve the world's problems, or, alleviate distress. How can science make life more fun and enjoyable.

Now, let's return to students. How can a group of students that are not in love with science develop enough of a scientific view of the world that they create manufacturing centers, reduce global warming, feed the hungry, cure and prevent illness, prevent war and solve other challenges? Well, they, and we (for we are all students), can.

Let's have more botany, more chemistry, more biotechnology, more micro, more medicine... And, let's have more of the supporting areas: the arts, math, history, social science, politics, among others...Let's have all of these in integrated looks at science. And, science-types, too, will gain from these other fields.

For example, in Charles Dickins', A Christmas Carol, can you think of science. In Wikipedia, you can find this link and go from there to find other resources linking science research and the poverty found in life: "wiki" (Now, some people won't use Wikipedia, but, I find it is a good starting point, especially if you use your own HOT skills to evaluate the information.)

In this way, the non-scientists will feel welcome in science and humanity can progress at it's best because we will all be well rounded enough to build more understanding and achieve greatness. People will understand why we fund research and scientists will learn how science is integrated in the minds of other people.

--This site under development. Please check back later. Dr. J----------------

(c) 2008 J S Shipman

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day!
Pi... Pi is...http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
Pi is a mathematical concept....http://www.piday.org/about.php

Science in Australia and the Seychelles

New Visitors to this site are from Australia and the Seychelles. Welcome.

Here's a reference to some research in these places.

Seychelles Science: The Owl...Otus insularis

Bird Conservation International (2004), 14: 123-137 Cambridge University Press. Copyright © BirdLife International 2004. doi:doi:10.1017/S0959270904000140. Published online by Cambridge University Press 03Jun2004 Link to this abstract

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The breeding biology of the Critically Endangered Seychelles Scops-owl Otus insularis: consequences for conservation and management

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by DAVE CURRIE ^a1, RODNEY FANCHETTE ^a2, JAMES MILLETT ^a2, CAMILLE HOAREAU ^a2 and NIRMAL J. SHAH ^a2
a1 The Nature Conservancy, Caves Village Building 5 Suite 2, West Bay Street, P. O. Box CB 11398, Nassau, Bahamas. E-mail: kirtlands@batelnet.bs
^a2 Nature Seychelles, P. O. Box 1310, Victoria, Mahe, Republic of Seychelles. Email: nature@seychelles.net

We have many readers interested in birds. This article is about an owl from the Seychelles. Can you find the Seychelles on a map?

What are your ideas about conservation and management of endangered species?

What species are endangered in your area?

Check out the bird game and other bird links previously posted:
http://read-about-it.blogspot.com/search?q=bird+game

Australian Science: Ocean Portal
http://www.iode.org/oceanportal/detail.php?id=5283

Australia is a leader in ocean conservation. The link above goes to a portal or electronic doorway to this research.

"Australia's oceans hold 4,000 fish types of 22,000 known worldwide. They are home to the largest area of coral reefs and 30 of the world's 58 seagrass species." Is some information discussed at the site. Click on the link and check it out.

Find Australia on the map.

What do you already know about Australia?


Have you been to the ocean?

Do you know what, "seagrass," is?

Write about biology in Australia.

Effect of Technology on Society: What do you think about what this speaker is saying?

Phytochemistry...and, sophistication of species
Industrial agriculture?
Shenandoah Valley...
Performing ecological services for each other
Cheap electric fencing, cows, egg mobile-houses 350 chickens, cow paddies, maggots are food, for the chickens, spreading the manure out...The grass then grows like crazy, and the cycle is repeated.
root-shoot ratio

Check this out: International Botany News!!!

The website: www.plantscafe.net is now online
(some bits and pieces are still under development, but, most of this great website is up and running now).

If Virginia Woolf had written on Science...

Post under development. Check back in a few days.

If Virginia Woolf had written on Science...

A Lab of her Own

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and science—what, has that got to do with a laboratory of one’s own? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and science I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Marie Curie; a few more about Rachel Carson; a tribute to the Barbara McClintock and a sketch of the now-gone corn fields under the snow-filled parking lot; some witticisms if possible about Miss Beatrix Potter; a respectful allusion to Flopsy, Mopsy and Peter Rabbit; a reference to Rosalind Franklin and one would be done. But at second sight the words seemed not so simple. The title women and science might mean, and you may have meant it to mean, women and what they are like, or it might mean women and the lab reports that they write; or it might mean women and the science that they do and what is written about them, or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together and you want me to consider them in that light. But when I began to consider the subject in this last way, which seemed the most interesting, I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback. I should never be able to come to a conclusion.....

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Well, you get the idea. The words in red are substituted for Virginia Woolf's words on women and fiction.

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