This past week, we've been learning about the macromolecules important to living things: carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, or fats. Some of these fats are what are known as trans fats which you have undoubtedly heard of in the recent past. Food companies and restaurant chains are in a [...]
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There is an interesting article in today's BBC Science and Nature section about the uproar regarding the production of biofuels and the effect it is having on the world's food supply. A BBC expert is calling for a 5-year moratorium on the use of biofuels so that people can find ways to produce [...]
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I belong to a listserve of AP Biology teachers from all over the U.S. as well as other countries where AP Bio is taught. We all share resources and labs and such there, and this link to lectures from MIT professors that correlate to topics we teach in AP Bio is one of the [...]
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If you want to get smarter and help your fellow humans out, visit FreeRice.com. Basically, you play a word game and for each word you identify correctly, the site's advertisers donate 10 grains of rice to the hungry around the world.
I got vocabulary level 49. The highest is 50. Hooah!
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This article at CNN.com details a discovery that reveals that our early ancestors were wearing makeup, partying down and eating seafood about 40,000 years before initially believed.
It's interesting: studying fossils of what amounts to old trash left behind after a party by a bunch of prehistoric humans to see just [...]
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