Posts by Bonnie Denmark
Bonnie Denmark holds an MA in linguistics and teacher certification in English, ESL, and Spanish. She has devoted her professional life to educational and accessibility issues as a computational linguist, multimedia curriculum developer, educator, and writer. She has also worked nationally and internationally as a language instructor, educational technology consultant, and teacher trainer. Bonnie joined the Visionlearning team as a literacy specialist in 2011, assisting the project by developing comprehension aids for science modules and creating other STEM learning materials.
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February 9, 2017
From Our Archives: Celebrating African Americans in STEM – Katherine Johnson
To celebrate National African American History Month, we applaud Katherine G. Johnson, a living legend in the fields of math, physics, and space science. A lifelong love affair with numbers brought Johnson from a small town...
November 22, 2016
From Our Archives: Turkey science – What’s on your plate?
Originally posted in 2015 by Bonnie Denmark. The 45 million turkeys that end up on the Thanksgiving table are nothing like their wild ancestors. In fact, they are very different from the typical Thanksgiving turkeys of...
October 13, 2016
Sweet Science of Honey
Honey has been called a miracle food. In addition to its obvious taste bud appeal, honey keeps indefinitely. And what makes for a virtually eternal shelf life also potentially makes for good medicine. Honey has been...
July 19, 2016
The buzz about nature vs. nurture in animal communication
Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales are buzzing about honeybee communication as they seek to discover if bees have regional accents. Bees have a repertoire of about 10 sounds that communicate different messages. Among these, their...
June 10, 2016
Protecting Salamander Biodiversity through Citizen Science
Amphibian populations around the world have significantly declined and are facing an extinction crisis. One culprit is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, a fungus that has caused amphibian die-offs by the thousands in the Americas, Europe, Africa,...
April 25, 2016
The secret of life revealed: Today in science history
On April 25, 1953, the “secret of life” was revealed in a short article in Nature that began, “We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel...
March 14, 2016
Celebrating All Things Pi on 3/14
There’s no better time to celebrate the magic of mathematics than Pi Day, which of course is on 3/14. Called by some the geekiest day of the year, Pi Day (also Albert Einstein’s birthday) is a great...
February 18, 2016
Celebrating African Americans in STEM: Lonnie Johnson, rocket scientist and inventor
A prolific inventor with more than 100 patents, Lonnie G. Johnson is most famous for inventing the hugely popular Super Soaker®. However, Johnson’s accomplishments go far beyond the world of toys. He is also an aerospace...
February 1, 2016
Celebrating African Americans in STEM: Katherine Johnson
To celebrate National African American History Month, we applaud Katherine G. Johnson, a living legend in the fields of math, physics, and space science. A lifelong love affair with numbers brought Johnson from a small town...
January 5, 2016
A bright future powered by clean energy: Three projects to watch in 2016
Industrial waste is converted to gasoline, drinking water powers a city, and ocean waves supply an electric grid – these are just some of the advances in green energy that made news in 2015. Let’s take a...
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