Informal Science – Cambridge Outdoors

Fun with Science Blogs

I’m a non-scientist who has has cobbled together a very partial understanding of science from whatever training I had in high school or college, whatever I read touching on science thereafter, and whatever PBS and BBC documentaries I’ve managed to watch (before I had kids and after they came of documentary-watching age, more recently). WeContinue reading “Fun with Science Blogs”

Will you be having dental floss with your garlic mustard today, sir?

Kids really don’t want lectures. They don’t want to learn stuff. They do learn stuff, though, because it is in the nature of their being to suck up information like a marsh. Back in the fall of 2012, when I was muddling through the particular big muddy of what to do with a gaggle ofContinue reading “Will you be having dental floss with your garlic mustard today, sir?”