Wow, Scientists Are So Cool!

“wow! That’s so Cool!” the Icehotel as Organizational Trope

This paper introduces the Icehotel, the world’s first and largest hotel to be constructed entirely of ice and snow, as a unique and generative organizational trope. As a trope, it both supplements and complements Morgan’s seminal book “The Images of Organization” and generates unique insights with regard to surprise, unifinality, purity, eco-coreness, and rebirth. The Icehotel also serves as a ...

Yawns Are Cool

Although we yawn each and every day, most people have little understanding of why we do it. In fact, the function of yawning has remained mysterious for centuries, even among scientists, and this has only changed quite recently. Contrary to what people have believed for a long time, it is now understood that yawns have nothing to do with breathing or the amount of oxygen we are taking in. Inste...

Are Scientists Really Publishing More?

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Mole's Wow! So now you have your own lab! Part VI – FCTWAWKI. By Caveman.

Misconceptions Are “So Yesterday!”

At the close of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research conference in July 2012, one of the organizers made the comment: "Misconceptions are so yesterday." Within the community of learning sciences, misconceptions are yesterday's news, because the term has been aligned with eradication and/or replacement of conceptions, and our knowledge about how people learn has progress...