Improving Science Education — and Education in General
In “Biomedical science education needs a new philosophy, Johns Hopkins researchers say” (Johns Hopkins’ the Hub, 3 Jan 2018), Barbara Benham writes: Today’s graduate biomedical …
Physics
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 40 Gundula Bosch, PhD Johns Hopkins, on the Importance of Philosophy to Science and Education
In this episode, Dr. Gundula Bosch joins us to discuss the R3ISE Graduate Science Program and the R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education. We …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 15 Teacher Scott Harris: What is Physical Science? The Intro
In this episode, Scott, Melanie, and Michael — short because Michael did not have things set up properly to record (sorry!), so you missed some …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 13 Teacher Scott Harris On Writing, Part 2
In this episode, Scott and Michael — after saying hi and catching up, talking about ending the school year, and Michael’s earning his MovNat Level …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 11 Scott Harris on Writing
Award-winning teacher Scott Harris joins Melanie and Michael to discuss what writing is, why it is important in life, and how we should use it …
Galileo’s Study of Motion
In “Galileo’s Great Discovery: How Things Fall” (D.W. MacDougal, Newton’s Gravity: An Introductory Guide 17 to the Mechanics of the Universe, Undergraduate Lecture Notes in …
Some Physics of Jumping
In “Jumping From a Height,” someone in the physics department at MIT wrote a good analysis of jumping and landing for a Physics 8.01X class …
Valsalva: Usually, But Not Always
In “The Valsalva & Stroke” (10 Sept 2013, Starting Strength), Jonathon Sullivan, MD, PhD, SSC, writes: Athletes who engage in serious, programmatic, heavy resistance training …
Cell Phones and More: Back to Biology
In the Wise Traditions podcast #158, “Tech Side Effects,” Brian Hoyer and Hilda Labrada Gore discuss the affects of electromagnetic radiation on our health, and …
A Basic Idea of Animal Movement
“The skeletal system translates the force of muscle contraction into movement as the body interacts with its environment.” –Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength (p. 10, 3rd …