Another thing that I do is enlist the students in helping me keep up on things. Several of my classes have an assignment where they have to read and evaluate biology articles. Without getting into what the students do for the entire assignment, this certainly keeps me informed as they find a variety of articles that I have not run across in my quest to stay current. In addition, when we hit a topic in class that some student is evaluating an article on, they will in some cases speak up and volunteer information on what they have read. I found talks about 1,000 pound space aliens to be quite useful in introducing various topics to students.
Slides made of some of the pictures on the covers really get discussions going.
Hooray for the National Inquirer and the Globe for giving entrees to biology classes. Blystone in Texas looking forward to the NABT meeting in October. Personally, I never had these problems until I was in my early 40's. And I personally am not familiar with Mylanta. When I do contraception, I begin with a short video clip from one of Tom Snyder's talk shows where he inflates condoms using an air compressor.