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3.25.13 has it been a month since I updated last? Sorry. Here's something neat, and somewhat topical. This diagran shows how many of each type of animal have been discovered (in darker blue) compared to how many we think we have yet to discover (in lighter blue). There's a world of animals out there just waiting to be found

2.24.13 Want superpowers? Telepathy? Telekinesis? The future is coming http://io9.com/5985558/temporary-tattoos-could-make-electronic-telepathy-and-telekinesis-possible

2.13.13 This.

2.13.13 At age 15, Jack Andraka invented a better way to detect cancer. #gokids http://www.bradaronson.com/jack-andraka/

2.8.13 I'm so proud of both the boys and girls basketball teams this year! You all were amazing, and I had a lot of fun not only watching you play, but watching you improve too. Congrats on an amazing season!

2.4.13 Thanks to everyone who donated Dots and Twizzlers! We couldn't have made our DNA without you.

1.30.13 Someone complained that I don't blog enough. This one's for you bub. I'm gonna attempt something new next week, as in I've never done it in class. Gonna require kids to design their own science-related video game using a program called Scratch. We'll take a few days in class to work on this, although I gotta admit I have no idea on whether or not this is actually going to work. A lot of logistics need to be worked out beforehand, but are I'm gonna mess something up. But that's pretty much reflective of Science as a whole-- Science is a work in progress. We try things, we make mistakes, we fix it a little better for next time. We learn as we go along. Wait, this is a metaphor for life too. I suppose Life is a work in progress too. I guess Science really is Life. This is getting pretty deep so let's go back to designing and playing video games. See, we've been learning that DNA is a blueprint, a code for characteristics. How the base pairs are arranged is what gives us our characteristics. You mess with the pairings just a little bit, and everything changes. So we're gonna write some code. And when we write the code for our games, you'll see that changing the code just a little bit could change everything in your game. This has the potential to be really fun or really disastrous. I'm hoping my students make this really fun and informative. If you guys have suggestions or ideas, drop me a line.

1.14.13 Oh wow, two blog posts in 1 day! Lucky you!! So my Professional Development goal for this year is to do more things with technology. Trying to get you guys doing more with technology in Science... I have a few ideas of things that I want to do, but I could always use more ideas! If you've got an idea of something technologically related to Science, drop me an email and I'll see if I can make it happen! Check out the Extra Credit link for some, well, unique things to do for extra credit that is technolgy related.

1.14.13 First blog post! Wow. So I've been sick for a few days. Really really sick. I'm still pretty sick. You should probably keep your distance. You should always keep your distance, but these days you should keep an even greater distance. Oh and I updated the Extra Credit page-- we need Dots!