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Twelfth Day celebrated at Priestley HouseMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 6:55AMJoseph Priestley and his family liked to party. At least that’s what their grocery receipts might lead us to believe.

Day camp teaches big concepts to little ones | By Magdalena Wegrzyn Longmont Times-CallMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 6:42AMHawley Penfold, a precocious 6-year-old from MeadowLark Montessori in Brighton, succinctly summed up her science camp experience: “It sort of feels like school class,” Hawley said, “except our teacher wears a lab coat.” The “school class” was Radical Reactions, a science day camp from Dec. 29-31 at the St. Vrain Memorial Building in Longmont.

THE INVENTION OF AIRSunday, January 4, 2009 @ 5:20AMThe next time you take a deep breath, think for a moment of Joseph Priestley, the 18th century British scientist widely credited with discovering oxygen. As Steven Johnson explains in his engagingly study of Priestley, "The Invention of Air," the...

Tech students focus on scienceSaturday, January 3, 2009 @ 2:06AMNEWBURGH - Students at GAMS Tech Magnet School were able to get their hands dirty recently learning about volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, magnets, chemistry and dinosaurs at the annual Family Science Night.

The Man Who Discovered Oxygen (Maybe) and Gave the World Soda WaterFriday, January 2, 2009 @ 11:56PMSteven Johnson?s portrait of the 18th-century chemist, theologian and perennial agitator Joseph Priestley is also a lament about the intellectual specialization of our modern age.