Critical thinking in biology
- Experiments as the gold standard for research: A new twist June 18, 2019
- Vaccination is in the news again (original posting of April 12, 2019, updated with new information on June 4, 2019) April 12, 2019
- Becoming an ecologist: A detour makes a difference March 17, 2018
- Why I worry about climate change March 16, 2018
- 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
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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