Swans on Tea

Over at The Blog of Doom, the Cap’n makes some good points, namely
Labs are not ways to reinforce your teaching. Labs are ways to teach.
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The goal of labs should be to let students figure things out for themselves. Let’s not tell students to verify Schmoe’s Law. Let’s tell them, “there might be a relationship between [...]

Every so often a nanotechnology discussion pops up on the SFN forums (one of several recurring themes), and invariably there is a comment or two in the direction of pop-sci topics like nanobots, and the implication that nanofabrication is a future technology. While the length scales have gotten smaller and manipulation techniques have certainly gotten [...]