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The Conscious Earth: An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms

By Stacy Reed

http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2006/11/inconvenient-truth-squeezed-from.html From the article: “The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation’s leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters. One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.”

Carlo Sequin

By Stacy Reed

http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/displayimage.php?album=8&pos=1 24 Lizard tiles, inspired by one of the many planar tilings by M.C. Escher, are mapped around a rounded tetrahedral frame of genus 3. This tiling is a contorted version of the pattern of 24 heptagons displayed on the surface of the marble sculpture “Eight-fold Way” by Helaman Ferguson. That sculpture celebrates Felix Kelin’s famous “Quartic Curve” which achievesContinue readingCarlo Sequin

By Stacy Reed

http://news.sawf.org/Health/28140.aspx Memories are held in our brains because certain proteins serve as anchors, holding other proteins in place to strengthen synapses, which are connections between nerve cells.

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