another one i love i think is call simbian something. european scientists decided that they could determine how far a population had evolved AWAY from primates by measuring the amount of shortening in their forearms – cuz chimps and gorillas have long forearms for how they locomote. Unfortunately the africans had shorter forearms, so of course the theory was abandoned. Becuase europeans were assumed to be the ones further evolved. Hilariously later it turned out that the theory was right and the folks they were measuring in africa actually had evolved further (DNA-wise) from primates.

sorry i can’t give you specific references but i always love these examples.

The Parable of the Sower is a parable of Jesus according to all of the Synoptic Gospels (at Mark 4:1-20, Matthew 13:1-23, and Luke 8:1-15) as well as in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas (Thomas 9). In the parable, a sower dropped seed on the path, on rocky ground, and among thorns, and the seed was lost; but when seed fell on good earth, it grew, yielding thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower

At that age, the students haven’t become so hardened and cynical that they have lost the ability and the will to be receptive to new ideas and new experiences. If you can inspire them to look at the world in a new way, observing, measuring and recording what is all around them and then asking why things happened that way, you will have made a major breakthrough.

Odds favor most of your students not pursuing the ideas that you planted in their heads, but a few will. If even a few look at the world differently and see the awe and beauty of it and ask those pesky questions, you will have done your job.

The notions may not all lead to science careers, but education should be more than a preparation for earning a living.

A friend of mine is a PhD.D. psychologist at the University of Nevada, Reno. One of his jobs is helping screen prospective candidates for their medical school. As he tells it, the applicants all fall into four categories.

These are the superstars. Those you accept and hope that they will elect to go there. The obvious rejection candidates are sent a nice rejection letter. They have to accept the Nevada residents who apply and meet the schools standards. The rest of the applicants are right on the border, with twenty or so competing for ten open seats every year. What my friend does is invite the applicants and their spouses or SO to come dine with him and his wife on the veranda of their house, which overlooks like Tahoe. He always manages to remark upon the beauty of the sunset over the lake. If the applicant is as impressed as most people are at the splendor of the sun setting on Lake Tahoe, my friend reacts favorably. But if the applicant doesn’t pay much attention to that lovely sight and keeps on yammering away on why he would be a good doctor, my friend will have scratched him off his list as someone who can’t see the forest for the trees which would make him a cold, uncaring physician.

The sense of wonder, if developed properly, does not go away. Mine was largely developed in the Boy Scouts where I had a good chance to get up close and personal with nature. My sense of wonder has never left me.

Ten years ago I was invited to speak in Victoria, Texas, which is south of Houston. On the way back home, I saw the most remarkable light show in the heavens. About five miles to the east of me, there was a powerful, but stationary thunderstorm. I was in the moonlight. The moon illuminated the storm so that I could see it in all of its glory while still being dry and safe. It was a spectacular sight. It reminded me of something that C.B. De Mille might have made.

Last weekend it rained all Friday night, all of Saturday and Sunday until about four in the afternoon. Then the sky cleared and the sun came out. I was outside reading a book in my chaise lounge when I glanced over at our wooden fence and noticed a beautiful sight. The well soaked pine planks of our fence were emitting what looked like steam as the warm afternoon sunlight streamed on them. I dashed into the house to get my camera and asked my wife to come outside to see it. Pine planks steaming in the bright daylight is something that one rarely sees.

That sense of wonder in me was developed by teachers and Scoutmasters.

Good luck!

2. Why is it that Pluto is no longer a planet?

3. Explain how Tuberculosis and Dysentery affect a human’s body.

4. What is AIDS, how is i transmitted and why can’t humans find a cure?

5. How can global warming affect the world.

how are we ever going to get away from this stuff?

Hi there !

God is truth …God is not a religion.

Why are there still segregated schools ….

Why are there still segregated grave yards…..

Why …as the Bible has always pointed out that man will always dominate man to his own injury?

Why do we bury Nuclear waste and make it another generations problem?

Why did the bible always say men were ruining the earth?

I agree that was one among many stupid things man has done .

i did mine with goldfish.
the question was- are fish healthier living with live plants or fake plants??

get like 2 2.5 or 5 gallon tanks and get a live and a fake plant and put 1 in each tank.

get 4 like20 cent goldfish and put 22 in each tank..

i just got the cheap feeder goldfish things that live a week and die. i had 2 replace them. (my teacher didnt no)

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