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A satellite for all seasons : TIROS   There was a time when weather was studied without satellites, then in April 1960 that changed. I...

Negative pressures. Avoiding spontaneous boiling. Surmounting great heights. And ever wasteful but important because of the waste. Love the...

Temperature can be seen as the ability of a substance to transfer heat energy. The greater the temperature the greater the ability. Whe...

I came across this blog post that matched five organisms with comic book characters who have the same super powers.  The creature in t...

Photo by Lorraine Phelan There are a few types of slime molds in this world.  I spoke of one years ago as an undergraduate.  I was disc...

Photo by fdecomite The man enters my booth making it clear he was not shopping this year, but also saying how much he loves the three...

Photo by Jeff Potter  Science Fridays on NPR airs during my 8th period class, which means I almost never hear it.  But a recent desire...

photo by Kiwi Flickr the final quarter ends and we move into overtime soon at the school. Some see it as a place to wade upstream to gradu...

1. A new flower. The other night after walking under the most amazing wisteria at Rhoads Gardens to get a lilac for our garden, Mosaic W...

photo credit It was 390,000,000 years ago and mountains were forming around where the Hudson River flows today. This was before dinosaurs a...

Back in the day when I studied Biology I was drawn away from the molecular to the ecological. I wanted to be pondering a wetland not lookin...

Lets end this month of a to z with a beginning, which is a mystery and though best guesses may approach what happened when the first "a...

why was it that for years I knew that trees got water from their root? And then I knew that the water traveled by tubes called xylem, and th...

This photo showed up in my Oregon post this past Wednesday. It's back I remember the amazement of coming across this scene. and that m...

Strange day at work. Something was happening that made many people think I should be happy, and maybe I could have been happy about it, ...

by Malloreigh Yesterday I spoke of tectonics . I would love to say that the inner temperature of the Earth is constant which has created per...

Driving Into the Fault Line by Giant Ginko I am going to venture into plate tectonics this week at which point I may say, since I have said ...

Mosaic Woman gave me All of Science for Christmas. She just may know me very well. In the past few years, I have taught the following cour...

photo by Greehawk68 I am digging Nova Science Now and the host Neil deGrasse Tyson is a wonderful host. Is he the Carl Sagan for this tim...

photo by Darek Smid Entering my classroom I had my plans set for the week, but I wasn't sure what topic I would be teaching in 90 minute...