Are Insects Disappearing from your Biology Textbook?

  Are you noticing less insects in your biology textbook?  You’re not alone. Jennifer Landin, with student and co-author Kiran Gangwani, recently decided to quantify the coverage of insects in college-level introductory biology textbooks over time.  By exploring the coverage of insect diversity concepts, the visual representation of insects, and conducting a text analysis of keywords, they discovered a significant […]

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Episode 70 – Go Back in Time with Terra Tempo

http://traffic.libsyn.com/wsst/LOL70.mp3 We welcome David Shapiro to the show to talk about his graphic novel “Terra Tempo: Ice Age Cataclysm”.  Shapiro is the creative director and writer at Craigmore Creations – a publishing house that specializes in Earth science and natural history stories.  In “Terra Tempo”, Shapiro’s young characters travel back in time to Glacial Lake Missoula and witness the resulting […]

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