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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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"We're all mutants..."
"...what's remarkable is how many of us appear to be normal." --Dr. Walter Bishop
For our panel, I plan to embody the character of Dr. Walter Bishop, leading government scientist from the Fox TV show "Fringe." Dr. Bishop is particularly relevant to our discussion of information because he uses fringe science to develop ways to extract information from dead or unconscious people and inanimate objects, supporting "Conceiving Ada's" notion that information waves exist independently of living people and can be accessed at any point using the right scientific tools. Walter also requested that a part of his brain be removed because he felt that he knew too much and was becoming dangerous. As a result of the surgery, Walter is extremely loopy and unfocused, which led to 17 years spent in an insane asylum. Walter has been re-discovering much of what was removed from his brain over the course of the show and is currently attempting to re-grow the brain tissue using chimpanzee cells. I'm looking forward to bringing Walter to life in our classroom!