{"id":1709,"date":"2012-10-13T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2012-10-13T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:28:53","slug":"10-13-12-this-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"10.13.12 This & That"},"content":{"rendered":"

— UCF receives $1.8 million for new program to encourage students to study math, science<\/a>: “The UCF\u00c2\u00a0program aims to recruit students\u00c2\u00a0partly by offering some freshmen a\u00c2\u00a0course\u00c2\u00a0that will introduce them to a variety of STEM-related careers.\u00c2\u00a0Students who take the class, which will be offered for free to those who have been invited to enroll, will\u00c2\u00a0earn three credits for it.”<\/p>\n

— Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach<\/a>: “Taking his usual morning stroll along the surf in Pompano Beach, Gino Covacci noticed a strange ball-like object at the high tide line. He kicked it over and found himself staring at the biggest eyeball he had ever seen.”<\/p>\n

— Orange biology teacher wins president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s award for environmental educators<\/a>: “Deborah Wasylik, a longtime biology teacher at Dr. Phillips High School, has been chosen as one of 18 top national environmental educators by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.”<\/p>\n

— An unusual collaboration between researchers in two disparate fields at the University of Florida resulted in a new discovery about the teeth of 65-million-year-old dinosaurs<\/a>: “Just a decade ago, a paleontologist might not have asked engineers for help, and they could not have helped him. In the last 10 years, however, Sawyer said advances in engineering — tribology and nanoscience, in particular — make it possible to test more materials, even those millions of years old.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— UCF receives $1.8 million for new program to encourage students to study math, science: “The UCF\u00c2\u00a0program aims to recruit students\u00c2\u00a0partly by offering some freshmen a\u00c2\u00a0course\u00c2\u00a0that will introduce them to a variety of STEM-related careers.\u00c2\u00a0Students who take the class, which … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-rz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=31","url_meta":{"origin":1709,"position":0},"title":"“Really cool” science class","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It's really cool to see that other's working at a school beside the science teacher is interested in helping the kids learn more about the subject. 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