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Janet D. Stemwedel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. Her explorations of ethics, scientific knowledge-building, and how they are intertwined are informed by her misspent scientific youth as a physical chemist. Follow on Twitter @docfreeride.
Janet D. Stemwedel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. Her explorations of ethics, scientific knowledge-building, and how they are intertwined are informed by her misspent scientific youth as a physical chemist. Follow on Twitter @docfreeride.
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Science Bloggers for Students: No Apocalypse in Sight (Transcript below)
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Transcript of the video:
Today is November 1, 2012, which means that the prediction that the world would end in October of 2012? Didn’t happen. Now what?
After your hard work laying in emergency supplies for the apocalypse, a new day dawns … and there’s stuff to do: dishes to wash, rabbit runs to clean, and public school classrooms that still need help getting funds for equipment, field trips, even basic classroom supplies.
Here’s where DonorsChoose comes in: Pick a giving page from the Science Bloggers for Students challenge. Check out the projects and find one that matters to you. Give what you can, even if it’s just a buck. And now, until the end of the drive, you can use the match code SCIENCE to double your donation, up to $100. Give a dollar, the project you’re funding gets two dollars. Give $100, the project gets $200.
The world didn’t end — this time. So take this opportunity to do some good and help some kids before it does.
About the Author: Janet D. Stemwedel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. Her explorations of ethics, scientific knowledge-building, and how they are intertwined are informed by her misspent scientific youth as a physical chemist. Follow on Twitter @docfreeride.
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“field trips”
Another method used by lazy teachers to avoid actual teaching. Waste of money.
Link to thisYeah, kids can learn everything they need to about the wide world within the confines of four classroom walls. What could they possibly learn by going to see an aquarium, a wetland habitat, an archaeological site, a museum of the history of computers? And surely, teachers put in no time or effort preparing their students to see such things, and do no follow-up in their teaching afterwards.
/sarcasm
Link to thisSarcasm noted , and as noted , ‘bang for the buck’ , doesn’t include field trips. Never had even one.
Link to this“the prediction that the world would end in October of 2012? Didn’t happen.”
The actual date for the apocalypse is December 21-23 , 2012.
An alignment and gamma rays will be received , in the shape of a cross , or not.
12 / 21 / 12
Link to thishttp://www.december212012.com/