{"id":136,"date":"2009-12-09T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-12-09T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:15:56","slug":"every-day-is-national-lab-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/every-day-is-national-lab-day\/","title":{"rendered":"every day is national lab day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s issue of Science has a news article<\/a> about National Lab Day<\/a>, a White House-supported initiative to pair up teachers and scientists in an effort to improve STEM education nation-wide. As the article notes, National Lab Day is a bit of a misnomer, seeing as the goal is to encourage a range of educational activities over the next year or so. That’s a sentiment I can appreciate; why pick just one national lab day when you can have ALL OF THEM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In any case, if you’re a scientist, you can sign up simply by giving away all of your deepest secrets and best resear<\/span>ch ideas<\/span> providing your contact information and describing your academic background. I’m not really sure what happens after that, but in theory, at some point you’re supposed to wind up in a K-12 classroom demonstrating what you do and why it’s cool, which I guess could involve activities like pulling french fries out of burning oil with your bare hands<\/a>, or applying TMS to 3rd graders’ foreheads, or other things of that nature. Of course, you can’t really bring an fMRI scanner into a classroom (though I suppose you could bring a classroom to an fMRI scanner), so I’m not really sure what I’ll do if anyone actually contacts me and asks me to come visit their classroom. I guess there’s always videos of lesion patients and the Muller-Lyer illusion<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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