Wrath Goes Viral
This is Part 1 and Part 2 of our podcast coverage of the event Wrath Goes Viral, the first in our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. In this [...]
Fractals: Art, Science, Math and Culture
In this podcast, art historian Nina Samuel, biologists Brian Enquist and James Brown, and ethnomathematician Ron Eglash discuss the prevalence and power of fractals from the perspectives of their various [...]
Beyond Career Day: Integrating STEM Professionals into the Science Classroom
The National Science Teachers Association has chosen the Academy’s K-12 Education Team to present at this year’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX. The conference, titled “Next Generation Science: Learning, [...]
Teaching about Hurricanes
I hope everyone is safe after Hurricane Sandy and I’m sure there are some curious students and teachers out there looking for the latest science on the hurricanes, climate science [...]
Black Holes and Astrobiology at the Academy
Astrobiology—the search for and study of non-Earthling life—is not exactly like Hollywood presents it to be, where aliens infect space ships or little green men from Mars stare back at [...]
Ways to get from Here to There…
New York City. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. It’s hard to believe that just over two hundred years ago, the skyscrapers and subways we see today were [...]
Sugar in the morning…
The battle of wills to resist the last cupcake isn’t the only one being waged over sugar. In fact, sugar—or fructose to be more precise—is one of the most hotly [...]
Use Science to Make the World Better
I was speaking to a colleague the other day, who had been in a car accident that was caused by another car breaking a traffic law. Luckily she was not [...]
A Fat Lot of Good
Trans fat, saturated fat, hydrogenated oil—such terms are plastered on food labels across the country. But what do any of them really mean? Find out all about fat in this [...]
The Mighty Oysters of New York
Oysters—once more abundant in New York Harbor than anywhere else in the world—fell victim to over-harvesting and pollution. But today, thanks to the efforts of a few key groups—like the [...]
