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31 August 2011
Thoughts on Education-How Finland Does It
Guest post by by Dr. John O. Annexstad (Retired professor and a lover of “the ice” (21 visits to Antarctica). A recent article by Eggers in the Bemidji Pioneer stated that our schools need to abandon the grading system. The reason he gives is that all students are capable of learning, and assigning grades tends to impede the progress of many. In today’s article I will examine this idea from …
Swamp Fire Chokes The Big Easy
The image above is from the NASA Terra satellite. Click it to see the higher resolution. The smoke is from a marsh fire near New Orleans and the state doesn’t have enough money to charter planes to drop water on it and the reason is explained by the graph below. Most of Louisiana has only received about 25% of normal rainfall, in the last 30 days. This is called …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.