KABT BioBlog

[ June 8, 2007; June 15, 2007; ] Dates:June 8 or June 15
Time: 9 AM to 4 PM
Location: SCI 113 on JCCC campus
Johnson County Community College would like to invite you to a Biotechnology workshop. The college is located in Overland Park , Kansas. A stipend will be provided to all teachers, counselors and administrators that attend. AM session: Is [...]

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Since November, 2006, I have been enjoying a series in Natural History Magazine entitled “Samplings: The Warming Earth”. (scroll down the page to find the “Samplings” specific to “The Warming Earth.”) The articles are actually very concise summaries of research published in professional journals. The samplings are representative of a wide range of research. [...]

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Science writer, Carl Zimmer, again has a nice article that discusses the newly announced marsupial genome. Check it out at Carl’s blog, the Loom.

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Teaching 21st century skills is the buzz on the surface with accountability, standards, and teacher shortages still the mainstay of education problems and propaganda.  While global views can be a bit overwhelming, the following video clip certainly puts the need for quality biology teaching in perspective.
http://www.nsba.org/conference/speeches/albShiftHappens.wmv 

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[ May 10, 2007; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] I thought that you might like to know that at 4:00 p.m. on May 10, Chris
Mooney and Matthew Nisbet will be speaking on “Framing Science: The Road
to 2008 and Beyond” in the auditorium at the Stowers Institute for Medical
Research, 1000 E. 50th St. in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mooney is a science writer for Seed and [...]

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[ May 19, 2007; ] 19 May 2007 Comanche Co. Red Hills nature tours, Coldwater KS

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[ May 12, 2007; ] 12 May 2007 KS Native Plant Society spring foray, Ft. Leavenworth woods, Leavenworth KS

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[ May 12, 2007; ] 12 May 2007 Barber Co. Wildflower tour, Medicine Lodge KS

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[ May 4, 2007 to May 6, 2007. ] 4-6 May 2007 Kansas Ornithological Society spring field trip meeting, Brown Co. KS

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[ May 3, 2007 to May 6, 2007. ] 3-6 May 2007 2nd. Triennial International Mosasaur Meeting, Sternberg Museum, Hays KS

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