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II. Learning about Science

EVOLUTION

  1. Did Darwin get it wrong?
  2. Human evolution alive with controversy
  3. Why do tropical songbirds lay fewer eggs?
  4. Evolution of the family dog
  5. Bird killing cats
  6. Humans evolved recently
  7. Ribosomes are ribozymes
  8. Making E. coli deadly
  9. Lizard evolution
  10. Meet Our Hobbit Cousins


NATURAL HISTORY

  1. How pigeons navigate
  2. Climbing the walls
  3. Cytoskeleton interactions
  4. Home Runs
  5. Cow Compasses
  6. How Tall Can Trees Get?


BIODIVERSITY

  1. Do-it-yourself environmentalism
  2. The killer bees are coming
  3. Biodiversity behind bars
  4. Is Flipper a senseless killer?
  5. Polyandry in hawks
  6. Is biodiversity good?
  7. Songbirds are declining
  8. Platypus Genome
  9. Death Stalks Bats
  10. Your Own Personal Ecosystem
  11. Race and Medicine


TEACHING DARWIN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  1. 140 years without Darwin are enough
  2. Answering evolution's critics
  3. Keeping Darwin out of schoolrooms
  4. Darwinism at the cellular level
  5. Darwin and charter schools
  6. Testing Evolution


LEARNING

  1. Mind over matter in rats
  2. Learning: Making smarter mice
  3. Learning requires sleep
  4. Repetition and Learning
  5. Discovery of site in brain linked to I.Q.
  6. Can dogs think?
  7. To What Degree Does Environment Affect I.Q.?


DINOSAURS

  1. Dinosaur Hearts
  2. Feathered Dinosaurs
  3. Dinosaurs for Thanksgiving dinner
  4. Were dinosaurus warmblooded?
  5. Dinosaurs at the Zoo
SCIENCE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
  1. Science in the new millennium
  2. Two minor ice stories for the new century
  3. Was Malthus mistaken
  4. First American
  5. Class of 2000
  6. What's killing the frogs?
  7. Global Warming
  8. Dying foal mystery
  9. Combating Global Warming
  10. CSI
  11. E85 and Global Warming
  12. Restaurant Forensics
  13. Making Bread More Nutritious
  14. Obama and Polar Bears


NOBEL PRIZE

  1. Explaining this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine
  2. Nobel Prize 2000


SCIENCE MEETS FANTASY

  1. UFOs: Is seeing believing?
  2. Yes, Virginia, there is a jackalope
  3. A dragon named Hawk
  4. Seeking sea monsters
  5. Where are my socks?
  6. AWOL socks again
  7. Does Life Exist on Other Worlds?


HOLIDAYS

    St. Valentine's Day
    Is love a chemical process?
    The saga of Lonesome George

    St. Patrick's Day
    Saint Patrick and the snakes of Ireland
    How to catch a Leprechaun

    Halloween
    Going batty on Halloween

    Thanksgiving
    The Turkey's Revenge

    Christmas
    Testing the Santa theory
    The scientific theory of Santa Claus


LOCAL

  1. St. Louis winters will be getting colder
  2. St. Louis Zoo's new director
  3. Deer Hunting
  4. Deer populations

These ON SCIENCE columns by George Johnson were originally published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the online newspaper St. Louis Beacon (stlbeacon.org).

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