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Mapping data to change minds: a lesson from 1854

With free tools like Google Earth and mapbuilder so widely available, these days it seems that everyone’s a mapmaker.
But mapping data to location in an effort to reveal previously unseen connections—now that’s a taller order.
(To introduce learners to the concept, howtosmile.org’s data mapping activities are a good place to start.)
An excellent example of the power […]

Posted in Topics: Geography, Human Body, Medicine, Statistics, The Nature of Science

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Teaching to the oil spill (& helping with a solution)

Since April 20, people around the world have watched as millions of gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. We tune in to news accounts of oil-covered pelicans, tar balls on beaches, and underwater “plumes” that may be even more damaging that the oil washing up on our shorelines. An entire ecosystem, not […]

Posted in Topics: Citizen Science, Ecology, Engineering and Technology, General, Scientific Ethics

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