by Caroline Crocker | Jun 3, 2025 | Science
A simple sugar. Several of these attached make a polysaccharide, like starch. The little balls represent amino acids. Those attach, the chain curls up, and the final result is a functional machine. The four railroad cars of DNA are guanine, cytosine, thymine, and...
by Caroline Crocker | May 27, 2025 | Science, Teaching
Kitchen sponges. Those who use them love them. Those of us who are scientists trained in microbiology don’t. Why not? Wet Places are often Germy The simple answer is: because they remain wet. Bacteria love to grow in damp places. During COVID, I had my students...
by Caroline Crocker | May 23, 2025 | Writing
Picture the scene: My very patient and supportive husband and I are setting out for an Arts and Crafts fair, where Rambling Ruminations has a stall. “Where are we headed?” he asks. The Problem I pull up my website on my phone. “That’s the great thing about my...
by Caroline Crocker | May 20, 2025 | My books, Science
Are scientists made or born? Obviously, career scientists do need training, but why do they even bother? It certainly isn’t for the money! I can’t guess why anyone else did it, but I can explore why I became a scientist. Fashion? It was not as a fashion...
by Caroline Crocker | May 16, 2025 | Family, Teaching
In a month or so, I will attend the Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) 2025 convention as a workshop speaker and vendor. I’ll teach about writing a book and sell my books. But that’s not what I want to write about now. To do that, I need to go back in...
