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View the Earth with EarthViewer

posted on 27 Mar 2013 by Maria Janelli

In the past, we’ve highlighted several Google tools that allow you and your students to explore hard-to-reach places virtually. This week, we’d like to highlight something similar: The EarthViewer app from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). We first learned about this app from a— Read more...

Evolution, Lately

posted on 14 Mar 2013 by Maria Janelli

Have you ever wondered what hominins ate long ago — say, two million years ago? Do you know when human beings figured out how to use fire? When did people invent tools? Can you imagine if women were pregnant for more than nine months? Information about these questions is among some of the mo— Read more...

Virtual Dissection

posted on 4 Mar 2013 by Maria Janelli

Here at Seminars on Science, we keep our eyes open for interesting ways in which science education and technology intersect. Recently, the folks over at Wired wrote about scientists at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, located in Greece, who have recently created a methodology for optimizin— Read more...
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Earth: Inside and Out, The Ocean System, Genetics, Genomics, Genethics, Evolution, The Solar System, Space, Time and Motion, Climate Change, The Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds, Sharks and Rays
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The Ocean System, Genetics, Genomics, Genethics, Evolution, The Solar System, The Diversity of Fishes, Earth: Inside and Out, In the Field with Spiders, Water, Climate Change
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