#Biology

Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers There are a handful of twitter profiles I rely on to open my mind every day. One of them is @CorinneTakara, an artist and teacher based in San Jose, CA where she does her studio work and runs a makerspace out of her garage called, aptly, The Nest,

Author: Dan Maloney / Source: Hackaday the open-source biology and biohacking Hack Chat! Justin Atkin‘s name might not ring a bell, but you’ve probably seen his popular YouTube channel The Thought Emporium, devoted to regular doses of open source science. Justin’s interests span a wide range,

Author: Sujata Gupta / Source: Science News At a large Midwestern high school, almost 40 percent of low-income biology students were poised to fail the course. Instead, thanks to simple measures aimed at reducing test anxiety, that failure rate was halved. Psychological interventions that

Author: Lailah Olson / Source: did you know? To the certain individuals (*cough* men) out there who are deeply preoccupied with “differences” between male and female brains, I’m gonna have to stop you right there and burst your bubble: there are no legitimate differences between male and female

Author: Lailah Olson / Source: did you know? Biology class, while important for certain high-paying degrees, is typically the place where students end up dozing off during lectures about mitosis and misspelling “Golgi apparatus” while diagramming cells — it’s generally not the setting for a DNA