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Unique School Visit Programming

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If your school regularly invites visiting authors, or even if it doesn’t, here’s an opportunity too good to be passed up.

Instead of inviting a fiction writer, consider having a scientist who writes true stories.

Because of the science and technology content, you might even get local industry to pick up the tab!

Parallel universes: What’s it mean?

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A quick question for a lazy Saturday afternoon. This article says mathematicians have found strong evidence that parallel universes exist, in which all possible outcomes coexist in separate universes. ” A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless.”

At the risk of posing a “Can God create a stone so heavy even He can’t lift it?” type question, does this also mean that universes exist in which this same research was conducted and found to conclusively show that parallel universes do not exist? I’m hoping the Fred Bortz’s of the world will chime in.

Science and all that jazz

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An anonymous reader, probably an adolescent, recently posted this new comment on a posting from several months ago.

the comment i have about science is that some of the things are intresting and some aren’t. i think we should jazz the science classes up some more or at all.

Some people might dismiss this as the grumblings of a typical teen. But since I write for that age group, I understand what he or she is talking about.

Framing Science: Spin or Communication?

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As a scientist who has morphed into a full-time writer, I care deeply about both the substance and communication of science to the general public.

I’m sure American University Communications Professor Matt Nisbet shares my concerns, but I have to admit a rather large degree of discomfort with his advocacy of an approach he calls “framing science.”