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Sylvia Todd, Science Star, Tinkers With the Idea of Growing Up - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    NYTimes story about Sylvia Todd, young maker with a following. "With her father, James Todd, filming her, Sylvia uses puppetry, theme music and her home as a laboratory to demonstrate how things work. She makes science fun, mostly by having fun herself."
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Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States - Interactive Graphic - NYTime... - 0 views

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    interactive graphic and short discussion of the phenomenon of men outperforming women in science in the US
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On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    a biosketch on Bill Nye
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The Mammoth Cometh - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    an article on de-extinction. what?!? its a brave (and exciting) new world
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Why Nothing Is Truly Alive - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    What is life? This is a lovely piece from the NYT about the biological question "what is alive?"
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Losing Our Way in the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Acquiring these skills wasn’t a matter of armchair learning. It was a process of getting outside, observing and creating a kind of mental scaffolding to organize my observations. I’m a physicist by training, and the process also reminded me that science was about more than laboratories and calculations.
  • the way I viewed the world had palpably changed. The sun looked different, as did the stars. While the ocean didn’t accommodate my “human” need for meaning, a different sense emerged from the wave patterns that conveyed the presence of winds, shoals, coastlines and distant storms.
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    This is a beautiful opinion piece from the NY Times that makes an interesting argument about how/why we learn science and science-y things.
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How Elementary School Teachers' Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science - NYT... - 0 views

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    Effect of encouragement/discouragement on elementary school students' later pursuits. Might be of interest to AZ Intersections team
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