I've been back in our wired world for 2 weeks after being off the grid in the arctic for August. While I did have a pricey satellite phone with me, in case my family needed to contact me, I didn't at all miss the internet and the world of cheap mobile phone minutes Lots of […]
Citizen Science
Doing Public Science with Let's Talk Science & Science Rendezvous
Here's my belated June 1st post: I've always believed that learning, teaching and doing science should be fun. Amazingly, while I've been having fun with this over the last 35 years, I've received many disapproving looks from science teachers, professors, and "serious" research scientists. I have concluded, that they have absolutely no sense of humour, and I've simply ignored their frowns, […]
My Awesome Adventure Canada Mighty St. Lawrence trip
Students who wrote deferred final exams in April, because they were sick for the regular final exams, are asking me where their grades are.. 😳 sorry! The fact is, that with a much recovered back -- I do pilates exercises every day -- I'm able to have a normal field-work, and conference-attending, summer of 12-14 hour work days […]
