Report from RESET Volunteer Beverly Yett: The two things the students seemed to be most excited about were the facial reconstruction and what they called the bird beak experiment.  This was a bit of a diversion for me but I wanted to demonstrate both biodiversity and adaptive changes to the environment. The students made “cootie catchers” a simple origami form…

Wow – I didn’t know this was happening.  I had to check to make sure it’s not April Fool’s Day. Feedback? John https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle

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David Roberts reports prices are dropping faster than predicted: https://energycentral.com/c/ec/cost-batteries-electric-vehicles-falling-more-rapidly-projected

Aerospace Engineer Stephen Leete  reports on his first classroom session as a ReSET volunteer at a school near his workplace, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: I started my volunteer activity at the nearby Catherine T. Reed Elementary School today. I spent about an hour in the classroom of Mr. Pitts and his 26 fifth…

RESET Volunteer Marty Stein shares his water distillation demonstration, below: Washington Latin is doing what they call water world. II plan to discussing the dangers of unclean water, a major problem, and some of the diseases that are transmitted in contaminated water. I ordered a complete distillation kit for Carolina Biological. They have assembled everything…