{"id":1027,"date":"2009-05-06T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:45:11","slug":"busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Busy, busy, busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Been very busy. NCSE’s Genie Scott<\/a> is coming to Florida tonight and Florida Citizens for Science is co-sponsoring her visit. She’ll be giving a presentation at a Florida Association of Science Supervisors<\/a> meeting tomorrow, and I will then give a presentation right after hers. So, I’m doing last minute tweaks to my materials; I have quite an act to follow, sheesh! My presentation will be based on my Florida’s Greatest Menace<\/a> series, but will be going all the way through from 1923 to present day. That means those lucky science supervisors get a taste of what’s still to come in my written series.<\/p>\n

After spending the morning with FASS, we will head over to Oviedo High School where Florida Citizens for Science board member Kathy Savage is a teacher and regularly hosts a high school version<\/a> of the popular science cafes<\/a>. Kathy can barely contain her excitement at having Genie talk at their final science cafe of the school year.<\/p>\n

On an unrelated note, I was very busy at work yesterday. Our narcotics folks found a crazy underground marijuana growing operation. It was literally underground. Check out my news release<\/a>, photos and video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Been very busy. NCSE’s Genie Scott is coming to Florida tonight and Florida Citizens for Science is co-sponsoring her visit. 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