When I was 6 or 7, my uncle gave me a book of Aesop’s Fables. I liked their imagery, and the idea of talking animals with anthropomorphized human traits appealed to my child sensibilities. Recent news about Turing Pharmaceuticals raising the price of Duraprim, a potentially life-saving drug, from a paltry $13.50 to an astonishing $750 brought one of these fables vividly back to mind: the story of the Scorpion and the Frog.
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- Making sense of noise: introducing students to stochastic processes in order to better understand biological behaviors (and even free will).
- Sounds like science, but it ain’t …
- Misinformation in and about science.
- Anti-Scientific & anti-vax propaganda (1926 and today)
- Mice (and humans) in a maze: a useful parable for science education?
- Higher Education Malpractice: curving grades
- Thinking about biological thinking: Steady state, half-life & response dynamics
- Going virtual without a net
- Conceptual simplicity and mechanistic complexity: the implications of un-intelligent design
- Avoiding unrecognized racist implications arising from teaching genetics
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