Student’s Corner

Three brass microscopes, blank glass slides, and a dish of pond water on a wooden bench.

Student’s Corner

Student’s Corner

Practice, not a second copy of the essays. Use these when you want to find out whether you can still think after you have closed the page.

The four desks below are deliberately different. Codes are a tool. The quiz is a test with the reason attached. Enigmas are slower. Humour is a check on whether you actually understood the word you are laughing at.

Four desks

A grid of small unlabeled glass vials holding pale green, rose, amber, and clear liquids on stone.CodesCodesThe standard genetic code, amino-acid letters, and a bench that translates a short coding sequence.
A brass hand lens, a green beetle, and a blank cream card on wet stone.QuizQuizTwelve questions. The order changes. Each answer comes with the reason, not only a tick.
A cut nautilus shell showing its spiral chambers on wet black stone.EnigmaEnigmaEight riddles. Open a hint only after you have sat with the wording.
A cuttlefish in dark water, one eye toward the camera, tentacles trailing.HumourHumourJokes that are required to survive contact with the actual biology.

A way to use an evening

Translate the poly-U example on the codes page and say, out loud, whose experiment that is. Then take the quiz without the essays open. Misses are a reading list. If you still have attention left, one enigma is enough. Write the answer in a sentence before you open the panel.