The business of education will not be serving the needs of learners if we do not redesign learning experiences for what people need: manipulation.
Read more in my Deseret News article “Manipulation: Why we need more of it”
(Paisley Caves, Oregon)
Teaching Faith and Science to Children
Sometimes people throw away science or religion. What do you think happens? The wise answer of a child. Teaching Faith and Science to Children
How Seeds Have Been Vital to World History
“How do you summarize a book that traverses every continent, plumbs the depths of human and paleontological history and skims both the ocean waves and the dead silence of outer space? “The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History” (Basic Books, $26.99), does just that, tracing the journey of seeds and making a case that the world as we know it is saturated with, and impossible without, seeds.”
Read more here: How Seeds Have Been Vital to World History
Fossil pushes back human origins 400,000 years
Fossil pushes back human origins 400,000 years. From Science. (Image also from Science).
The Evolution of Flowering Plants
The world is a fascinating place. “Amborella trichopoda is understood to be the most basal extant flowing plant and its genome is anticipated to provide insights into the evolution of plant life on Earth….The Amborella Genome Project was able to infer that a whole-genome duplication event preceded the evolution of this ancestral angiosperm…[scientists] found that numerous genes in the mitochondrion were acquired by horizontal gene transfer from other plants, including almost four entire mitochondrial genomes from mosses and algae.” http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6165/1241089. Also: http://taylorhalverson.com/2013/12/23/shrub-genome-reveals-secrets-of-flower-power/
