Category Archives: Science

An Aha! Moment: How to Reduce Plastic Water Bottle Waste at Airports

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

You start a project like this, and you notice that you’ll be asked to do a bit of thinking about how you might help make the world a better place. Scout badges are chock full of tasks intended to improve … Continue reading →

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NASA: The Great Inventor

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Yesterday, our nation’s manned space program at NASA came to an indefinite halt. Sigh. Big sigh. I wrote about this last week as well, but now seems like a good time to look at how much NASA‘s program has improved our … Continue reading →

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A Map of the World

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

In one of last week’s posts, I offered up a word search puzzle around the theme of garden variety domestic travel. In this post, let’s go bigger. Let’s imagine ourselves aboard the Shuttle Atlantis and contemplate alternatives to our typical … Continue reading →

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The Shuttle Program Takes a Bow

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

Tomorrow, Friday, July 8, 11:36 A.M. EDT,  is the scheduled date for the launch of NASA’s final space shuttle mission, flight # STS-135, Shuttle Atlantis.  I’ll be watching, and I’ll be pretty bummed out, too. I mean seriously bummed out.  It’s worth … Continue reading →

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Breast Cancer and Genetic Testing: Tough Call

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

For my next badge work I was a little surprised to learn that gene mapping is central to a badge task. Scouts are asked to look into an illness that’s linked to genes, then consider the pros and cons of genetic … Continue reading →

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