Teachers Clearinghouse Newsletter, Fall 2006

Table of Contents

The Inconvenience of Truth: "The Movie" and "The Book".

Two prominent publications address global warming: The Economist: "The heat is on" and The Scientific American: "Energy's Future: beyond carbon."

Guest editorial. Kevin Laws: The role of truth in science.

Nancy Van Vranken: 1938 - 2006

Harvard hosts energy lectures.

Infrared cameras monitor heat loss.

Art Hobson: Drell and Garwin on nuclear proliferation.

Science and engineering indicators 2006.

"America's pressing challenge" the companion piece.

Science ed: what we haven't done in the past 50 years and what we should do in the next 50

Eight days on the space station.

ITER: next step for fusion energy

Michael J. Passow: Seventh international conference on school and popular meteorological and oceanographic education.

Michael J. Passow: Education and outreach on selected federal agency websites.

"Frontiers of science" in the core curriculum.

Developing a microbicide for HIV.

LEED certification leads the way to sustainable living.

Bernice Hauser: Discussing sexual abuse with children.

How to detect illicit uranium.

News from Triangle Coalition.

Taking science to school.

Infusion tips.

Forthcoming Science and Society meetings.

Recommended science and society educational resources.

Reviews of Science and Society Educational Resources.

Clearinghouse update.

The only sustainable exponential has a negative exponent.

75 Years of Little Change in Physics Teaching and Scientific Literacy