[Catalist] Humour 4 U

[Roy Skinner]

This may amuse you Eric -chemistry teachers would appreciate this:

 

Reading a copy of National Geographic entitled "Gender Revolution" I
discovered that there are no less than 21 different designations for gender,
most of which I had never heard of (agender, androgynous, queer,
genderfluid, non-binary, etc). 

I was interested to note that there is an opposite of transgender named
cisgender allocated to a person whose gender identity matches the biological
gender they were assigned at birth.

 

I was just wondering whether when a cisgender person had children it would
be by an addition reaction.

Roy

 

 

From: Catalist [mailto:catalist-bounces at lists.stawa.net] On Behalf Of SYME
Eric [Thornlie Senior High School]
Sent: Sunday, 8 October 2017 5:16 PM
To: catalist at lists.stawa.net
Subject: Re: [Catalist] Reply to Errol Hunt's EMAIL to me via ASTA

 

Hi Michael et al

 

I have noticed a big decline in the frequency and depth of discussion on
Catalist since about 2008. 

 

It hasn't let me post for many years now, not sure why, tried to take it up
with the then webmaster but no luck...not sure if this will get through
hence the brevity.

 

I miss the discourse, humour and collegiality and hope it picks up in the
future.

 

Regards

Eric Syme

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From: Catalist <catalist-bounces at lists.stawa.net
<mailto:catalist-bounces at lists.stawa.net> > on behalf of Michael McGarry
<mmcgarry44 at gmail.com <mailto:mmcgarry44 at gmail.com> >
Sent: Sunday, 8 October 2017 8:19:03 AM
To: catalist at lists.stawa.net <mailto:catalist at lists.stawa.net> 
Cc: errolhunt at iprimus.com.au <mailto:errolhunt at iprimus.com.au> 
Subject: [Catalist] Reply to Errol Hunt's EMAIL to me via ASTA 

 

Greetings Errol,

Your Question: "I have an idea about teaching science in Australia, and I'd
be really interested to hear what science teachers thought of it. Do you
think that ASTARIX would be an OK forum for this? Could generate some
discussion even if my idea isn't actually a good one!"

My Answer: Given that peer review is an integral step in the scientific
process, I encourage you to post your "idea about science teaching" to
ASTA's ASTARIX 2.0 e-Forum.

Also, given significant and evidenced decline in e-posts and replies on
Science education research and pedagogy to STAWA's e-forum CATALIST,
'concerned' WA science colleagues foresee these two important science
e-forums degrading into science 'e-bulletin boards'.

A recent perceptive e-post to STAWA's e-Forum CATALIST by Leon Harris on
STEM education in Australia, generated good discussion and debate and
alerted us to this excellent URL: https://www.stem.org.uk
<https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stem
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[Thanks go to Roy Skinner.]

CATALIST URL:
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Best Wishes,

Michael John McGarry 



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