Science is Cool

As someone who used to make a living (I used to complain but it sure seems like I had a hefty salary from my vantage over here) trying to make science concepts understandable to novice audiences, I appreciated this Slate article, challenging journalists to just say it like it is, rather than burying already potentially off-putting subject matter in unnecessarily reverential, flowery prose.

I am reminded of the "Venus Explains the Atom" segment on WKRP.  This Emmy-award winning episode was directed by the dad of a good friend of mine.

These days, I slip in science whenever I can, which isn't very often in the age of No Child Left Behind.  If we're not reading, we're doing math.  If we're not doing math, we're reading.  

Sometimes we even read about math!

Math Manipulatives Make the World Go 'Round

Need I say more?  When I rule the world, not only will there be hooks under every restaurant table, but there will be fake money, fraction bars and circles, base ten blocks, and flippy counting pieces in every classroom, regardless of the subject.

Yes, I am substitute teaching again (*waves to the US economy*).

Really, it's all about fraction bars.