i am just a child. please hold my hands as i wade through these, &, everything. i want carl sagan to help me count the stars, i want to know just what it means that there are billions and billions of these things, & just what is the universe, & when is something called a biosphere? we are not plant cells. we do not have walls like mimes, we can not feel our boundaries and poke at them, we have no membranes. we are free, we wander, we fly. michio kaku writes dreams on strings, we are 1% different than…
The Science Creative Quarterly
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THE DEFINITION OF SCIENCE AND THE DEFINITION OF WRITING EQUALS THE DEFINITION OF CREATIVITY
Everyone in the class defined either “science” or “writing.” We compiled them to define “creativity.” – – – Creativity is learning, experimenting, teamwork and interest. It is putting things together to make the unknown, a really cool subject because there is no such thing as bad art. It is the unknown world of living things, expressing yourself, and emotions, what you are thinking, and taking risks. Creativity is painting drawing, poetry, learning about nature, the solar system, body, electricity, water, food and plastic. It is a project, something you make that can be a masterpiece to express your feelings. It…
PROFESSOR J. BLUCHER AND THE PROBLEM OF THE CLASSROOM
I thought I would share a funny story of what recently happened to a colleague of mine. The fellow in question, Professor J. Blucher, was recently trying to schedule a room for his undergraduate class, Mastering Sextants. This year, the class, which usually numbers only a handful of students, had nearly 150 sign up. Initially he surmised that perhaps people were finally taking global warming seriously and had decided to brush up on their nautical skills. However, it was later discovered that, due to certain constraints in the new course offerings software, the class was listed as: MASTERING SEX. So…
WRITE PRIME
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WAITING FOR … THE WORLD (OR THE TROUBLE WITH CONSUMERISM)
A One Act Tragicomedy based on the style and characters of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot – – – A city street in Vancouver. No trees. Dawn. The near future. Vladimir flat on the ground. Sleeping. Estragon standing, teeth clenched, pressing buttons on his flip cell phone. Flips it open, flips it closed, flips it open. His frustration grows. Estragon: Go to hell! (Throws phone to the ground, the phone bounces and resounds.) Vladimir (awoken): That’s where we’re going. Estragon (picks up phone, pockets it): You’re awake! I thought you’d never wake up. Vladimir (pointing towards Estragon’s pocket): No signal?…
LAW AND ORDER: PARASITIC INTENT. EPISODE 238 – THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS AS THEY NOSEMA
This program contains graphic scenes of violence and adult themes. Viewer discretion is advised. – – – THE SCENE Light is pouring into the courtroom. A tense background of hushed conversation fills the room. The defendant, Nosema enters the room. He is a microsporidian parasite. He’s roughly oval shaped and dressed in an orange jumpsuit. He appears infinitesimally small and has a thick cell wall. He stares at the floor, dull and unblinking. Two guards carry him in solemnly. The judge enters. Bailiff: All rise for the honorable Judge Kara Phyte. All rise and as the Judge settles in her…
HOW MANY SPECIES ARE THERE ON EARTH? A FINAL, DEFINITIVE, AND PRECISE ANSWER
ABSTRACT There are 42, exactly. – – – Key acronyms: JAL, EO, UW, CSU, MSU, ATBI, INBio, OUTBio, NTFC, and BINGO! INTRODUCTION For what seems to be an interminable period of time biologists have been whining that all of the other sciences know more about their basic inventories than we do. Chemists have filled out the periodic table (except for rare reports of newly discovered, ridiculous elements, such as Whocaresium with a half-life of a picosecond); physicists have completed their quark menu (including all 31 flavors), astronomers have catalogued the stars (in fact, they have a few dozen catalogues suggesting…
INTRODUCING THE PHYLOMON PROJECT! KEYWORDS POKEMON AND BIODIVERSITY
(From http://phylomon.org) (Facebook group: link) – – – “When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” ~ E. O. Wilson. Well 2010 is here, a.k.a. the International Year of Biodiversity, and to us at the SCQ, it means that we’re finally ready to go ahead with our long awaited phylomon project. Please repost, reblog, retweet, phone a friend – whatever you can do to spread the word. WHAT IS THIS? Good question. Well, it’s an online initiative aimed at creating a Pokemon card type resource but with real creatures on display in…
UNTITLED
whole green leaves eaten away across an expansive canopy of undergrowth. soft wet soil pulled slowly toward the sea as bits of rocky structure show through and red-brown, mossy trunks cling low & climb high to chase the water and the light.