Science Matters in Wisconsin 1(18)
Welcome to this week’s issue of Science Matters in Wisconsin. Please share this with a colleague!
-- Professional Development
January 27 – 29 WAEE Winter Workshop vis waee.org for all the details. The “PlanetWalker”, John Francis, will be joining us on Saturday as the Winter Workshop Keynote. There will be kid friendly sessions and activities, so bring the whole family! Live entertainment on Saturday night. The program is a great lineup of presentations along with everyone’s favorite events. Including wolf howling, The Brutal Gourmet, and the Nertz Tournament. Register this week to get the best rates.
February 8-11, 2012 -- Unnatural History: What bizarre biology can teach us about evolution 2012 Darwin Day Celebration from the University of Wisconsin Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution. Check the Crow Institute website (http://www.evolution.wisc.edu/node/155) for times and dates for movie night and talks by researchers exploring deep sea life, parasitic plants, and an arms race between toxic newts and their garter snake predators. Don't forget the Tree of Life scavenger hunt on Saturday February 11! We hope that you will join us again this year and encourage your students, colleagues and community members to check it out. We invite all middle and high school biology teachers to a TEACHER WORKSHOP Wednesday February 8. (Limited funds are available to cover substitutes.) Apply here: http://tinyurl.com/bwjspuv.
-- Student Opportunity
Nominate a talented senior student who loves science for the National Youth Science Camp. For application information click on the URLs listed next. The application deadline is February 17, 2012. http://2012.nysc.org/delegates/apply/
-- Science Spotlight
“Dinosaur Freeway” in Colorado: More than 350 newly discovered tracks, made by various dinosaurs, crocodiles and a few pterosaurs, were identified at the site, which is now the John Martin Reservoir in Bent County, Colorado. When added to previously found tracks there, the total number of fossilized prints is well over 1,000. The dinosaur freeway is described in the February issue of Cretaceous Research.
-- Video of the Week
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/laurie_santos.html
-- Contact
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Eric Brunsell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh brunsele@uwosh.edu
