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No evolution in Junior Cert? Say it ain’t so!
Okay, let’s get one thing straight. The greatest single idea that mankind has ever – and I mean ever – come up with is The Theory of Evolution. It is the greatest idea in the history of the universe,...
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‘Story with Global Warming not on the syllabus?
The nice thing about Global Warming is that it that it may very well wipe us out as a species in the next couple of hundred years. It is the single greatest catastrophe to hit human-kind EVER. And in...
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Last-week-of-term activities
What do you do to entertain a class of sixth years who reckon they have earned the right to not work in their final week? Today I introduced them to the intriguing character of Nikola Tesla It seemed...
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Please put SPACE on our Science syllabus
science.ie is currently hosting a survey of readers to find out what they consider to be the greatest mystery in Science. The leader by quite some way is “How did the universe begin?” The theme for...
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Imagine if the key-word in the Leaving Cert Physics syllabus was ‘wonder’
This is an image, courtesy of Wordle.net, of the current Leaving Certificate Physics syllabus. Wordle is a program that gives the most common words the largest font size: This is a similar image of the...
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