{"id":2102,"date":"2014-04-16T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:02:19","slug":"this-that-41614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"This & That 4\/16\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

— There will be a free screening of the documentary The Revisionaries<\/a> on Tuesday, April 29th, 6 p.m., at the Peace Education and Action Center<\/a> at 525 Kumquat Ct. Sarasota, FL 34236.\u00c2\u00a0Sponsored by: Americans United for Separation of Church & State, The Peace Education & Action Center, ACLU, the Center for Religious Tolerance, and the Humanists of Sarasota Bay.<\/p>\n

— The Tallahassee Democrat published an op-ed I submitted about science education in voucher-accepting private schools: Science has a spot in voucher debates<\/a>. I especially like the political cartoon that ran with it.<\/p>\n

— I have now confirmed that I will be on the Marc Bernier radio show<\/a> (WNDB, Daytona Beach) on April 29 at 5 p.m. When the time comes, you can listen live online at the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n

–\u00c2\u00a0Duval schools seek more science, math teachers<\/a>: “A new program in which Duval Schools and the University of North Florida attract and train new science and math teachers has too few takers, so officials are extending its deadline.”<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to get math and science teachers that stay in the classroom and become highly effective and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave after one or two years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Merritt Island students work with NASA mentors to build tiny satellite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It means so much, it’s going to be so amazing,” said Briana Luthman, 17, looking forward to seeing the satellite she helped design and build launch in the Mojave Desert. “I can’t wait.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— STEM Superheroes Kickstart Next Phase of Work<\/a>:<\/p>\n

DuPont says inspiration hit them like Shazam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lightning bolt while they waited in line one day at Disney World.<\/p>\n

“One of us said “superheroes” and I think both of us started staring at the sky, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in line and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really hot out and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like, ‘Wow, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a really good idea,'” DuPont says.\u00c2\u00a0 “Because superheroes are pinnacles of the society, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good citizens, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always trying to do the right thing, they use science and math all the time because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re either super-powered so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something scientifically strange about them or sometimes you have superheroes that are just really good with technology, like Batman.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— There will be a free screening of the documentary The Revisionaries on Tuesday, April 29th, 6 p.m., at the Peace Education and Action Center at 525 Kumquat Ct. Sarasota, FL 34236.\u00c2\u00a0Sponsored by: Americans United for Separation of Church & … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-xU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1723,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1723","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":0},"title":"Revisionaries movie showing in Sarasota","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Revisionaries, the documentary about the battles over evolution education at the Texas state board of education, will be playing at the Sarasota Film Society's 23rd Annual Cine-World Film Festival (flip to page 26 in the book). 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