Book Review: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

I recently finished reading A Sand County

Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold. It’s often considered to be one of the best works of environmental…

Sharing a Video: Is Santa Real (a scientific analysis) by It’s Okay to Be Smart

Every so often I watch an online video with my daughter. I have a few YouTube subscriptions that tend towards science-y sorts of things, so I can bring something up pretty fast. One of the…

My Labor and Delivery: the hopes and the reality

The birth of my daughter didn’t go quite the way I expected, and by that I mean, it didn’t go at ALL like I expected. I had hoped to have a vaginal delivery without the use of painkillers, including an epidural. Since this was my first…

Using Safer Household Cleaning Products

A few years ago I worked in one of the libraries at the Environmental Protection Agency (side note: they’re open to the public, so check them out, especially if you or someone you know is working on a science project). As a result of some of the things I read…

Self-Guided Learning

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What I imagine as a classic image of children studying
“Pier Leone Ghezzi (Italian, 1674–1755)
Portraits of Serafino and Francesco Falzacappa, about 1720, Black chalk, pen and brown ink
16.2 x 26.7 cm (6…