Monthly Archives: May 2020

I am repeating a post from a couple years ago as filler while I prepare a more serious essay on climate change. Hope you enjoy. To warm up, here are few biology/chemistry “play on words” groaners.  In first year biology we usually learn three types of chemical bonds, ionic, covalent, and hydrogen.  (In AP biology …

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One of the first questions I liked to pose to a new class was “what is science?” So I pose that question now. Two other follow-up questions were “when did science begin and what was probably the first “branch” of science to develop?” Let’s answer the last question first. Although there is no single correct answer, many people agree …

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