This interactive slide show takes you through the process of identifying gender. At times those responsible for conducting high-stakes athletic competitions like the Olympics have been greatly concerned with gender testing athletes. Learn why verifying a person's gender may be harder than you think.

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A comprehensive website that takes viewers/readers through evolution, step by step, from basics of what science is and the nature of science, to the history of evolutionary thought. There is aslo a section on "teaching evolution" (which includes age-appropriate materials and a section on misconceptions) and how to handle potential pitfalls in teaching the topic (such as avoiding pitfalls...

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This is a one-day teachable unit with pre and post-class activities. Materials in this teachable unit are geared towards introducing epigenetics as a form of non-genetic inheritance to students who have little or no prior knowledge of epigenetics. Students are however expected to have a basic understanding of the central dogma: replication, transcription, translation, and their regulatory...

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This video shows how Agent Orange (nearly 20 million gallons of defoliant) left negative effects in a central highland of Vietnam. The most toxic component: dioxin, has been accumulated in the food chain of this area because dioxin is fat soluble. The botanist Phung Tuu Boi tried to build up "green fence" to protect people and their life-stocks entering the hot zones of dioxin, but failed because...

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There are many issues for discussion from this video, including (1) the meaning of cloning stem cells that have the exact genetic makeup as the patient, (2) the scientific scandal about Korean's scientists that published fake data claiming they successfully cloned stem cells, (3) the application of cloned stem cells, (4) the differences between cloning cells and cloning organisms, (5) the...

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