Science teacher

Late autumn sunset on the Delaware Bay I do not do well with the shorter days. Chances are, you feel the same. Despite bathing in ...

We keep time in class, as we do pretty much everywhere. I've got several analog clocks and one less precise (and less useful) box of dig...

I watched the sun set yesterday. I watched the sun rise again this morning. I don't do this often enough, few of us do. Just a f...

Yesterday we fooled a few bacteria into taking in some jellyfish DNA, and now they fluoresce green. Tomorrow I will take a few colonies of t...

An Cailleach Bhearra wandered around back in the 10th century in western Ireland, eating "seaweed, salmon, and wild garlic" (my ...

A response to a response to my last post--NASA, food is not energy. Language matters, especially to young children trying to make sense ...

It's dark again, a reminder of what we mostly ignore. Life depends on light, depends on combining simpler particles into larger, less ...

We're in the last few weeks of the dying sun, our days defined by our shadows. I know the sun will return, but I don't believe it. ...

Yesterday the sun hung in the sky  for 10 hours and 24 minutes in these parts. Today the sun cheats us out of two minutes, only hanging a...

As I type this, a tiny gnat is trying to break through my monitor. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution....

Ann Coulter never actually said this*, but if she had, I'd be nodding my head vigorously alongside her. Radiation is good for you! ...

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...

As I was poking around the classroom garden yesterday, getting the plants ready for the weekend, I found a pea pod dangling from a tiny pea ...

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Ci...

The last time these parts saw 9 1/2 hours of sunlight was the last day in November. The darkest 6 weeks of the year are over. Amen. Pho...

We're a few weeks away from the crocuses. They know the sun is coming back. I do not know how they know but they do. Soon green fingers ...

I tossed some metal into the Atlantic surf for about an hour today. The sun has settled low in the south. Gashes of December light broke thr...

Theology alert--f eel free to jump in.... This was inspired by Father Sean and Brother John and Reverend Scott . Balance. We need balance ...

I am very careful not to tip my hand in class. While I am responsible for teaching my puppies how to think, I am loathe to tell them what t...