SCIENCE: The Decline of Western Civilization

My cousin Cindy, who teaches biology in a midwestern college, occasionally sends me reports of her students. Longtime readers may remember the student who stubbornly insisted that fire was a living creature. If they’re typical, we should view the future with trepidation.

Yesterday I had at least 6 students (there were only 5 groups!) come and say, “so what do we do now?” after they had picked up their supplies (step 1), even though I had just handed out the written procedure to them.

Step 2 was “Put the strawberries into the ziplock bag.”