Of the top 20 Science/Technology stories on Google at the moment, only one is about science--Neanderthals may not have been as slow as presumed.
What else do we have?
- Lots of Harleys riding a ferry
- Apple will no longer offer a free Tetris clone at its iTune Apps store
- "Scrabulous" is dead.
- Stealth surfing just got easier
Contrast this with the BBC News (which lumps science with nature, giving technology its own category):
- Cattle may sense Earth's magnetic fields
- A few dozen asteroids have been newly found in our solar system
- A black hole mystery has been solved
- Water scarcity is causing food shortages
It does make me wonder, though, what most parents and policy makers think actually happens in science classes.
The science is not in the fancy "interactive" SMART Board, nor in the LED projector (with the very expensive bulb), nor in our web access. I appreciate all of them, though I'm fine with a piece of chalk and a slab of slate as well. (I think I do my best teaching in bars, on cocktail napkins, but that's not for publication.)
The science is in the elodea (a water plant) bubbling away on the windowsill when the sun hits it, the Newton's cradle clinking for the 27th time by a curious student.
The Neanderthal child was reconstructed by by a research team from Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich; the picture is credited to Christoph P.E. Zollikofer. The elodea is by Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS Plants Database.
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