Critical thinking in biology- On climate science, the New York Times blows it May 8, 2017
- “This is a sad day for the children of the U.S.” April 19, 2017
- Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and migration: The law of unintended consequences February 3, 2017
- Medical use of marijuana revisited January 11, 2017
- Storytelling in science: What can we learn about critical thinking from stories about mountain lions and sea otters? July 23, 2016
- Careful readers are a writer’s best friends March 8, 2016
- More politicians talking science November 23, 2015
- Research on medicinal uses of marijuana: Is the cart before the horse? September 16, 2015
- Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job September 9, 2015
- Vaccination and the Eradication of Human Diseases August 17, 2015
Category Archives: Ecology
Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and migration: The law of unintended consequences
I described the magic of migration by monarch butterflies in Chapter 1 of Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology. These tiny animals fly from breeding areas in the northern US and Canada to overwintering sites in high-elevation forests in central … Continue reading
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Storytelling in science: What can we learn about critical thinking from stories about mountain lions and sea otters?
Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology is a book of stories about doing science. Most of these stories are incomplete because science is a work in progress, therefore one of my great pleasures is learning about new research that extends … Continue reading
Careful readers are a writer’s best friends
Writing for publication entails many drafts and many reviews of these drafts by friends, colleagues, copyeditors, and critics. The credibility of science depends on peer review, as explained by Frederick Grinnell in The Everyday Practice of Science and by me … Continue reading