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Science Channel: Space, Technology, Earth Science, Geology - (USA)
Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with science videos & news from Science Channel.
http://science.discovery.com/
Axis of Sanity - (USA)
There’s a damn fine post over at Cosmic Variance that discusses the finer points of engaging with “the enemy” in public dialogue, when one approach is appropriate and when it’s not, and how to distinguish among the opposition. In order to illustrate his point, the author introduces the Grid of Disputation , that instead of just lumping people into the “agree with me” and “disagree with me” camps, also sets them on an axis of “sensible” versus “crazy”. People who both disagree with you and a
http://www.atomicnerds.com/?p=2658
Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?: Scientific American - (USA)
One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-cosmic-origins-of-times-arrow
Make Your Own Spectrometer | Orbiting Frog - (USA)
http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2008/07/02/make-your-own-spectrometer/
National Inventors Month – August 2009 – Amazing 160,000 patents are granted each year in the USPTO - (USA)
Sunday, August 09, 2009 U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 9 WASHINGTON, Aug 09, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Following is the daily “Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) SUNDAY, AUGUST 9: INVENTORS MONTH Profile America — Sunday, August 9th. Inventions make our lives easier, more enjoyable and, in some cases, save our lives. They range from the astonishing to the
http://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/national-inventors-month-august-2009-amazing-160000-patents-are-granted-each-year-in-the-uspto-1-in-10-patents-are-issued-to-individual-inventors/
Short Words to Explain Relativity - (USA)
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
10 Universities Offering Free Science Courses Online -- Education-Portal.com - (USA)
People searching for 10 Universities Offering Free Science Courses Online found the following information relevant and useful.
http://education-portal.com/articles/10_Universities_Offering_Free_Science_Courses_Online.html
TED | Talks | Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind (video) - (USA)
TED Talks <a href="/speakers/view/id/213" target="_blank">Clifford Stoll</a> could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/237
Sustained Quantum Information Processing Demonstrated - (USA)
Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express,* overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors. In the new demonstration, NIST researchers repeatedly performed
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2009/08/10/sustained-quantum-information-processing-demonstrated/
Media Week 31: Education, Oxfam, e-Readers, Journals - (USA)
Some of these were on the twitter (@personanondata) this week. The NYTimes looks at digital content in schools and recognise it is going to come faster to college level than school. ( NYT ): Whenever it comes, the online onslaught — and the competition from open-source materials — poses a real threat to traditional textbook publishers. Most of the digital texts submitted for review in California came from a nonprofit group, CK-12 Foundation, that develops free “flexbooks” that can be cust
http://personanondata.blogspot.com/2009/08/media-week-31-education-oxfam-e-readers.html
What is the purpose of homework? - (USA)
What is the purpose of homework? Why do so many kids suffer from homework anxiety? Why do we teachers assign so much homework? Last year, one of my favorite students' father wrote all the teachers a note through our online communication system. The note went something like this (all in capital letters): "Why do you teachers assign so much homework? There is no need for my daughter to do 5h of homework every night. She stays up every night until very late and then can't concentrate in school.
http://www.nucleuslearning.com/content/what-purpose-homework
Intuitor: How to Succeed through Creative Learning - (USA)
The Intuitor Page: information and unique products for the new culture of creative learning and continuous improvement.
http://www.intuitor.com/index.shtml
Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes - (USA)
Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes Category: Genetics Markita Landry, a half-Bolivian, half-French Canadian physics Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ... used a tango to convey her thesis, "Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes." She is trying to understand how a protein called TelK bends DNA into hairpin loops. The mechanism makes for beautiful dance, with Landry bending like pliable DNA in her partner's arms
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/11/single_molecule_measurements_o.php
Commonsense rules - (USA)
Commonsense rules By Mark, Saturday 29 November 2008 at; 11:21 :: Journalism From Guardian's Cif belief... Jim al-Khalili believes that scientists should do more than simply communicate the facts. He argues they should also combat the culture that leads some to believe in creationism and others to spend millions of pounds on homeopathic remedies. The light of rationalism must be kept shining brightly, he wrote on these pages. Who would deny that? Except that I suspect something more subtle
http://markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?2008/11/29/1162-commonsense-rules
When a field gets engineered… - (USA)
In a nutshell, engineering is making certain simplifying assumptions of the real world and building a piece of technology by combining separate parts to build a functional whole. During this engineering process, the degrees of freedom, that is, the play between its components is reduced as much as possible. This is possibly due to the limitations of the brain power or comprehension of the human engineer. As a result, must technology only has a few degrees of freedom. Some of the most complicated
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2009/08/when-a-field-gets-engineered.html
Temporary Recession or the End of Growth? - (USA)
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of five books on resource depletion and societal responses to the energy problem. He can be found on the web at www.richardheinberg.com and www.postcarbon.org. Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer spending and consumer confidence, together with a contraction of international trade and available credit. Add a collapse in real est
http://www.bearmarketinvestments.com/temporary-recession-or-the-end-of-growth
the physics arXiv blog » Blog Archive » Why our time dimension is about to become spa - (USA)
http://arxivblog.com/?p=71
Karen Daniels Trainer-Tells His Side of Her Amazing Weight Loss - (USA)
Recently, BBAC did a Feature Article on Karen Daniels, an amazing Baby Boomer who Lost 150 pounds. This is Karen’s Personal Trainer, Bill Crawford, an other amazing Baby Boomer. He has agreed to tell BBAC and it’s readers, his perspective to Karen’s Amazing Wright Loss. Here is their story. When I first saw Karen Daniel, I knew I was looking at a woman in trouble. At 375 pounds, she took a giant step by entering my fitness center. There I was, face to face with one of the biggest challenges
http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/karen-daniels-trainer-tells-his-side-of-her-amazing-weight-loss/
New Technology Advances Lie Detection - (USA)
Brain test could be used for next polygraph A Seattle scientist who has developed an electronic brain test that he says could improve our ability to force criminals to reveal themselves, identify potential terrorists and free those wrongly convicted may have finally broken through the bureaucratic barriers that he believes have served to stifle adoption of the pioneering technique. “There seems to be a renewed surge of interest in this by the intelligence agencies and the military,” said La
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/new-technology-advances-lie-detection/
A Part, Yet Apart - (USA)
So, I’ve been thinking about the science fiction convention experience and wondering if I’m alone in my relationship with cons or whether it’s something more general to writers attempting to make their way up the pro ladder. Because, as a professional genre writer I find that I feel both a part of the convention community and apart from it. It has not always been this way for me. I am a 3rd generation fan, my mother and grandmother were part of the effort to save the original Star Trek series
http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/08/11/a-part-yet-apart/
More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water - (USA)
PhysOrg news: More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water
http://www.physorg.com/news134058290.html
Engineer the Climate? - (USA)
Should the United States and other governments start supporting climate engineers’ research? In my Findings column, I note the growing support for research into climate engineering, even among scientists who are skeptical that it will work. Although some people remain opposed — and warn that talk of climate modification is a dangerous distraction from cutting emissions — others say that we need to at least consider back-up plans if political leaders fail to limit carbon emissions, or if global w
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/climate-engineering/
Building the Universe - (USA)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4828974485162282248
Review: 'The Daddy Machine' @ Celebration Theatre - (USA)
The unassuming pleasures of "The Daddy Machine" at Celebration Theatre go beyond its kicky staging and deft performers. This sweetly wacky musical, based on Johnny Valentine’s book about two kids with lesbian moms who get more fathers than they counted on from the title device, avoids talking down to children or talking at adults. "It’s All Good," sings Stonewall (Joe Souza), the family dog, cavorting with his chew toys before designer Alexandra Smith’s set, which sports a festooned cardboard
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/11/review-the-dadd.html
Anatomy of a Black Hole - (USA)
http://www.thinktechnologies.com/portfolio/demos/Blackhole.html
Do Not Try This At Home - The Ellen DeGeneres Show - (USA)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is an hour-long, five-days-a-week, talk-variety show. Find Ellen's monologue, celebrity photos and videos, games, giveaways, how to get tickets and more on The Ellen Show website.
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2008/02/steve_spangler_do_not_try_this.php
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