Politician-ing the environment

Here is a “funny” from this afternoon: We were discussing environments in science today.  Hannah piped up, “You shouldn’t politician the environment.”  I smiled and explained that a politician is someone who works in government and the word she wanted was “pollute” which means to make something dirty or mess it up.  “Well,” she said,… Continue Reading Politician-ing the environment

Off to Germany

Tomorrow I’m heading over to Germany to join the OM new recruits conference.  I haven’t heard how many there are, but it will be good to participate in the January conference for the first time.  I speak at least once every day from Saturday until Tuesday.  If I can get online I will try to… Continue Reading Off to Germany