Textbook EvaluationI examine how science curricula are complicit in maintaining the dominance of knowledge production by major powers, particularly the USA, through their efforts to tell the 'truth' about certain topics, and whether resistant counter-discourses are being mounted, especially in '...
Highly specialized myrmecophagy (ant- and termite-eating) has independently evolved multiple times in species of various mammalian orders and represents a textbook example of evolutionary convergence of phenotype. The genetic basis of this unique dietary adaptation and convergence remains unclear. The cov...
Baur, Lenz, and Fischer, in their textbook in the 1930s, recognized genetic heterogeneity. William Allen, who is honored by the William Allen Award of the American Society of Human Genetics, wrote about genetic heterogeneity when he pointed out that some disorders, such as Charcot–Marie–Tooth...
7pp. 96. Lev Landau Fudges the Orbital Math. I go through an old textbook, showing the incredible cheats. 13pp. 97. A Conundrum concerning the Surface Area of a Sphere. The spherical surface area proof was done better by Archimedes than by this modern integral proof, which is pushed. ...
(2006) describe the use of their Expertiza tool for managing student-generated contributions to their course textbook, which included students making improvements to existing explanations contained in the book and creating new examples for the concepts described in each chapter. Other examples that ...
to reproduce reality, models can be quite different from each other, for example the MPI model has very low rainfall for lots of Australia, whereas the NorESM model has very high rainfall. In other regions sometimes the models mostly lean the same way, for example NW US and W Canada. ...
CANADA Laurie Faraday: FAX WEST COAST/W. James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. John Thomas, Nor arolina State U. CANADA Lynne Stickrod: , FAX MIDWEST Jeffrey Dembksi: x3005, Steven Loerch: x3006 Janet G. Hering, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Aquatic Shubha Tole, Tata Institute of ...
Though Trotta is a theoretical physicist, this is nothing like a textbook; rather, the author uses his own insightful observations and personal anecdotes to pay tribute to our evolving relationship with the universe. Perhaps above all, the book is a reminder to look up—and not to take that ...
In 'The Effect of New Orogenetic Theories Upon Ideas of the Tectonics of the Canadian Shield', collected in Royal Society of Canada, Special Publication No. 4, The Tectonics of the Canadian Shield (1962), 135-138. As quoted and cited in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
In regard to the first concern, the authors argue that the teacher-centred, textbook-driven, and transmissive approaches to science education are not only at odds with First Nations approaches, but also with those espoused by contemporary science education research (e.g., Harlen & Bell, 2010; ...