by Caroline Crocker | Sep 23, 2025 | Science, Teaching
Here follows the second installment of my series on my experience as a biology professor at NVCC and GMU. How Hard Should it Be? It was time for the first exam. Since many students didn’t take notes, I figured the material was probably too easy for them. I carefully...
by Caroline Crocker | Sep 16, 2025 | Science, Teaching
My years of teaching biology and biology labs at Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University were both educational and enjoyable. In the following series of blogs, I’ll be sharing stories that illustrate both. Enjoy! The First Lab Beginning...
by Caroline Crocker | Sep 12, 2025 | Science
This post was published many years ago–and taken down. However, people are still being scammed by chiropractic medicine. So, I’m putting it back up. Introduction As of the original writing of this post, Americans spent more than $34 billion per year on...
by Caroline Crocker | Aug 19, 2025 | Science
Those of you who follow my blogs or get my newsletters will know that, under the guise of Science by a Scientist, I’ve been working my way through how living beings are constructed. I began by explaining how tiny atoms work, then moved on to molecules, wrote about...
by Caroline Crocker | Aug 5, 2025 | Science
Did you know that adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have been estimated to be the 3rd most frequent cause of death in the USA today, outstripped only by heart disease and cancer? And this is not even considering all those who suffer, but don’t die. What can the average...
