Icarus at the Edge of Science
An exciting evening with physicist Brian Greene! The performance of “Icarus at the Edge of Time”, involving a full orchestra, music by Philip Glass, narrator Levar Burton, story by Greene, [...]
Teacher Appreciation Week
I’ve had so many good teachers in my life. Three, Mrs. Franks, Dave Marsh, and Professor O.Roger Anderson, stand out in one particular way – they all pushed me to [...]
Can Oysters Save New York Harbor?
By some estimates, 50 percent of the world’s oysters used to come from New York Harbor. In the early 20th Century, local reefs succumb to over-harvesting and pollution. But, more, [...]
It’s a Jungle Out There!
Spring always takes my mind to Central Park and inevitably to some of my favorite museums which border Central Park. One such museum, the American Museum of Natural History, is [...]
Telling Science Stories
In February, the Academy co-produced a night of science teacher’s stories with Story Collider, a science storytelling series. As we worked on marketing language and logistics, a little voice in [...]
Trials and Terrors of Biology Class
Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as “Bunhead,” in part two of our science-storytelling podcast series. You can [...]
Call of the Wild: It’s a Jungle Out There Part II
Nestled in the heart of the concrete jungle that is New York City there is a place that glimpses into the real jungle… and arctic, and desert, and forest. The [...]
Have Lobster, Will Travel
Kelly Vaughan isn’t your average middle school science teacher. She’s willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wrangling crustaceans now and then. She [...]
Barcoding and Human Health
It’s exiting to see the significant contributions barcoding has offered. A DNA barcode is a segment (sequence) of an organism’s DNA that we decode and then use to ID the [...]
And the Oscar goes to…On the Silver Screen Part II
Movies and school don’t always seem to go hand in hand. But with the fast approaching Academy Awards it’s hard to ignore the extent to which movies are a part [...]
