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Author: Grace

I'm a "dirt-ologist". I love studying the interface of human and environment interaction, often asking the rather rhetorical question: "Do we change the landscape, or does the landscape change us?"

I also captain the ISS Insanitekian, a startup adventure of a lifetime.

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Thin Layer Chromatography: A simple Window into Separation

Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) is one of the most approachable yet powerful chromatography techniques. Building on the foundations of paper chromatography, TLC offers clearer results, faster separations, and more flexibility for scientists in the lab as well as learners in the classroom. Thin Layer Chromatography: A Brief History Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) emerged from scientific …

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The History of Visual Mathematics

Visual mathematics, the practice of representing mathematical concepts through diagrams, drawings, or models, has played an important—though often debated—role in how humans have understood and advanced mathematics throughout history. Ancient and Classical Origins Some of the earliest traces of visual mathematics are not what you think they are. Maps, geometric diagrams, and other visual artefacts …

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W – Method of Multiplication: History and Uses

If you’re anything like a majority of the world, you’ve never heard of visual math methods, let alone specific ones you can use as “short cuts” to make things easier. In this case, we are going to dive into the W-method of multiplication, it’s brief history, and how to use it. History of the W-Method …

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Does Exercise REALLY Help Students Focus and Perform Academically Better?

We hear it all the time for the elderly: Exercise increases cognitive abilities and staves off Alzheimer’s. We hear that exercise makes us age more slowly over all. But what about young people? What about people with ADHD or other cognitive “divergences.” The answer, like everything else in science, is “it’s complicated,” but it’s also …

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How Fertilizer and Science Education Are Tied Together by Justus Liebig

Justus Liebig (1803 – 1873) was a German chemist that not only did groundbreaking work in organic chemistry and biological chemistry, he also transformed chemistry education and universities to be more inclusive of a variety of topics . The Man: Justus Liebig Justus von Liebig was born in 1803 in the south-central of Germany in …

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Venn Diagram of IBL versus PBL

Teaching or Learning Method? Project vs Problem vs Inquiry Based Learning

Since the dawn of semi-organized education, pedagogy has been explored. The methods of teaching are wide and varying with varying degrees of success. Our favourites happen to be those based on more or less natural learning styles: Project Based Learning (PBL), Problem Based Learning (PBL), and Inquiry Based Learning (IBL). Let’s be clear on something. …

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