Summer Assignment 8.28.18

This will be the final week of the summer assignment this year. Great job with all the comments, I hope you found some of the articles I linked to interesting. There are a few things I have for you to do this week.

• To get credit for this week's entry, tell me what your favorite post was over the summer, and what you are most looking forward to learning more about this year.
• If you are registered for Dr. H's class, please visit this website and request access. If you have used PB Works before, you can use your previous account information and will not have to confirm your email. If you are new to PB Works, you DO NOT need to use your school email account to request access. After I accept you, you will receive a confirmation email. 
• If you are registered for Miss Drust's class, she will provide you with the course website.
• Once you have access to the wiki, feel free to have a look around. It is still a work in progress, so there is not too much there yet. There are some things on the front page for you to do.

That's it. See you all next week.

Summer Assignment 8.21.18

Almost done for the summer, keep up the great comments.

• Wheat genome finally solved. 
• Charting the evolution of human intelligence.
• News headline or AP Bio exam question: If identical twins married identical twins, how genetically similar would their children be?

Summer Assignment 8.14.18

Only a couple weeks to go for the Summer Assignment. Keep up the great comments.

Only one link this week, it is another long article. Are we wrong about why the dinosaurs went extinct?

It is important to remember the role that debates like this play in scientific research. If everyone just accepted the first explanation presented them, there would never be any advances.

Summer Assignment 8.7.18

There are still a few comments that list "Unknown" as the author. If your comments from the last few weeks have not shown up, please check the settings and make sure you are allowing Google to show a user name on the blog.

• Bioengineered lungs transplanted into pigs
• Good overview of cognitive biases. You can't escape these, only hope to recognize when you may be falling victim to them.

Summer Assignment 7.31

Sorry for the post being a day late, had a busy day yesterday and didn't get the post up in time.

Only one link today, it is a longer article. Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change details the period from 1979 - 1989 when global warming and the greenhouse effect first came into public awareness. We came very close to solving the problem then; hopefully we can find a solution now before it is too late.