Meltdown California: The World’s First Nuclear Accident My students have been asking me all week about the risks of fallout from Japan’s nuclear disaster. Californians have been emptying drug stores of iodine tablets in preparation for the impending assault on their thyroids. (Hopefully they haven’t ...
Torlakson’s Dream: Make California Schools Less Bad State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is calling for a reform of California's education system. What’s new? Everyone and their mother are calling for reform. Most of them involve some combination of privatization and union busting, ...
Why (and How) Your Students Swear: The Science of Swearing Here are the results from an interesting (and *really important*) scientific study on Teen Swearing, originally reported by science blogger and psychiatrist Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks (and covered by David Dobbs, from Wired Science.) *London Teens* ...