Here's Science

Here's a list of what we're reading (and annotating) in science.

• Life on Earth, David Attenborough
• Full House, Stephen Jay Gould
• Evolution 101, Judith Scotchmoor and 21 other authors (Cal-Berkeley)
• Flanagan's Version, Dennis Flanagan
• Why We Get Sick, Nesse & Williams
• Gus, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
• Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
• Silent Spring & Environmentalism, Eliza Griswold
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• The Far Side, Gary Larson

Here's a sampling of what we're doing in science.

• defining, conducting activities, writing, and developing projects on natural selection, adaptation, mutation, evolution, and genetics 
• conducting experiments on symbiotic relationships
• visiting the U of M drosophila lab
• visiting the Food Forest

Here's a First XI of what we're asking in science.

• What is the difference between evolution and adaptation?
• What are the means by which natural selection occurs?
• How do these concepts apply to fields other than science?
• What is the difference between a mutation and a mutant?
• What is symbiosis?
• How does science drive social change?
• Why do we get sick?
• What is a hox gene, and why would anyone want a luminescent fruit fly?
• What was the process by which corn was created in Aztlan?
• What is the relationship between magic and science?