Science teacher

Found today at the edge of the ocean. We are mammals, all of us, trapped by words of our creation, most of us. We are human, all of us...

My clam bed, our clam bed, has been severely damaged in the name of environmentalism. "Wetland mitigation" resembles The Inquisit...

I've spent the last couple of days asking kids to look at horseshoe crab molts. The molts are (mostly) unfamiliar, with all kinds ...

OK, I'm not sure I'm allowed to do this (but it's usually easier to be forgiven than get permission--my Mommy taught me that)--h...

We are led to believe a lie When we see not thro' the eye, Which was born in a night to perish in a night, When the soul slept in be...

While immersed in the Krebs cycle in mid-January, pushing biochemical pathways on sophomores who have yet to learn chemistry, I marvel a...

'Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor, The watery shore, Is given thee till the break of day.' Wil...

The time between anniversaries of the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima, plutonium on Nagasaki, have the same off-center pull on me of the a...

 Horseshoe crabs and I have a long history.  Theirs longer than ours. These were tossed up on a huge hill of dredge waste, peering th...

This post is a mess, an amalgam of several yet-born posts swirling about. This is a tool, made by Takeshi Yamada ,  an artist who saw visi...

I fished in thigh deep water today, surrounded by gazillions of horseshoe crab eggs, most of which will be eaten in the next day or two. A s...

We took about 150 kids to Sandy Hook today, just as the high tide of the new moon of June was receding. Horseshoe crabs, oblivious to ou...

My hands were awash with  patriotic colors this morning. Blue blood of a lovely lady horseshoe crab, hooked by a lad whose enthusiasm, alas,...

I wasted a day today prepping my lambs for the New Jersey Biology Competency Test. I will waste another day on Monday. I have no idea wha...

I got an email from Education Week this morning that prompted this. Conclusion 1: Across the life span, from infancy to late adulthood, in...

I saw that someone Googled "can you pick up a horseshoe crab" today to find my blog. I found a half dozen tiny horseshoe crabmolts...

Our crocuses bloomed today. A tiny horseshoe crab, smaller than my thumbnail, crawled out of the Delaware Bay. The day lilies are rising aga...

Leslie and I found the tiny shell of a young horseshoe crab this afternoon while walking on the edge of the Delaware Bay. The shell is ba...

I love this picture. My wife has tiny feet--that is the tip of her tiny shoe. The tracks were made by a tiny horseshoe crab last Februar...

We all have a vested interest in advancing our country’s proficiency in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math as a m...