I'm currently reading two books that have been making me think about geologists' attitudes toward math. One is Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future, by Orrin Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis. It's an argument about the dangers of misusing math to find simplistic answers in applied geologic problems. The second is ( Read more... )

I helped judge a science fair on Thursday. There were only ten entries in the Earth and Space Science category, from middle school and high school combined, so I ended up helping judge the 6th grade Environmental Science and Consumer Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science categories ( Read more... )