Tag: "kids"
Producer's Notes: Science on the SPOT – Falcons Up Close
QUEST's web-only video series, Science on the SPOT, takes a close-up look at the Peregrine Falcon.
Post on Feb 08, 2011 by Chris Bauer
Try These at Home: 2 Sure-fire Science Demo Classics
Quick how-to's to make your own non-newtonian matter; float a ball in mid-air indefinitely; pronounce "Bernoulli."
Post on Sep 08, 2009 by Christopher Smallwood
Penny Wise, Science Foolish
The economy is in the tank and so the cuts at schools begin. And of course one of the first things on the chopping block is anything that can keep kids interested in science.
Post on May 26, 2009 by Dr. Barry Starr
Designer Babies
A storm of protest broke out a month or so ago when a fertility clinic in Los Angeles announced it would start helping women choose what their babies might look like. The ruckus was loud enough that the clinic has since backed off on this service.
Post on Mar 30, 2009 by Dr. Barry Starr
Reporter's Notes: New Life for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Researchers call stem cell technology a "revolution" in medicine, along the lines of the development of antibiotics in the 1940s, or the manufacturing of insulin and other therapies from recombinant DNA breakthroughs.
Post on Jan 16, 2009 by David Gorn
Kids Take Aim in Cal Academy Photo Contest
For the next generation, cell phones, computers, and digital cameras are something they have always known. While I had to get to know how to use the technology as it was developed, they have been introduced to it already molded and they are incredibly comfortable using it. This became readily clear to me coordinating the California in Your Backyard Youth Photo Contest.
Post on Aug 06, 2008 by Cat
Through the Lens: California in your backyard
The camera has long been an invaluable tool of field researchers. For example, the initial identification of a new mammal species was initiated by a camera trap set up by Francesco Rovero of the Trento Museum of Natural Sciences in the Ndundulu Forest in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. Both Francesco Rovero and Galen Rathbun of the [...]
Post on Apr 17, 2008 by Cat
Nature Deficit Disorder
Many people spend their holiday seasons inside shopping malls. More and more, kids, in particular, are passing up the opportunity to play outdoors during the rest of the year too. The trend could be contributing to serious health risks such as obesity. And so a movement of parents, teachers and lawmakers is trying to get [...]
Post on Nov 20, 2007 by Gabriela Quirós
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