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...

When looking at a jelly lying at the sea's edge, a critter that uses the same genetic code as pretty much anything that has suffered t...

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." Muriel Rukeyser This is a lovely quote, and a lovely way of looking at the wo...

I just read a fun post tweeted by dtitle, "Five amazing inventions that will doom us all!" Why wait for the future, though? We alr...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D.H. L...

We are awash in strings of vague capital letters--and it's easy, so easy, to gloss over them like names in a Russian novel. BPAs, PCBs, ...

I keep thinking about the blue sparks I saw, and heard. Evanescent, almost palpable, rippling under the cotton. I remember now when I last s...

Teachers in various departments had a rare chance to sit together at a conference at Bloomfield High School this week. We are diving into ...

I started reading a book this morning, a good one. This particular book was printed in 1903, sat in our high school library for about 30 yea...

The sun is just starting to settle down a tad later today than it did yesterday. The solstice is still over a week away, but the evening lig...

"I don't eat plants." Um, you never eat cereal or salad? "Oh, I eat those--I just don't eat plants." The disconn...

Occasionally I will stumble upon an exhausted bee, dying on a flower. Too tired to move, but still alive enough to thrust its tongue into t...

One day Chuang T zu an d a fr iend w ere walking by a river. "Look at the fish swimming about," said C huang Tzu, "They are ...

Yesterday Leslie and I paddled along the edge of Cape May Harbor, again showing our prowess with tide charts by struggling against the ebbin...

I have been reading an anthology of articles and letters from Nature , a weekly British science journal which started in the Victorian age, ...

We are too exclusively bookish in our scholarly routine...In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditiona...