Are you traveling this holiday season? If so, you first may want to take a look at the The Known Universe, a film by the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. In a few minutes the film takes you from Mount Everest to the edges of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big [...]
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Map of the Universe
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MIT (Re)Invents the Wheel
Posted in Environment, Science, tagged Environment, technology on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everybody needs one of these under their tree or menorah: A team of scientists at MIT has developed a new, more energy efficient bicycle wheel that gives riders a boost when they need it. Similar to a hybrid car, the Copenhagen Wheel harvests energy when rolling and braking, and uses that stored energy to power [...]
Gift of Using Tools
Posted in Science, tagged biology on December 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Back when I was a kid and the earth was flat, we learned that one of the key things separating us human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom was our genius for creating and using tools. Later, we figured out that some of our close primate relatives also rely on tools to get [...]
How Science Can Rescue a Dull Party
Posted in Science, Uncategorized on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
10 cool and easy tricks for all those parties you’re going to over the next 3 weeks.
Imagination Encircles The World
Posted in Science on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long, long ago, when I was a kid, the study of science was as dry and dusty as the fallen oak leaves we were asked to bring into class every year. But much of what makes up new science is cultivating the abilities to imagine, suppose and disprove; and thereby trying to “see” beyond what [...]
Be The Geek
Posted in Education, Science, tagged Education on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Physics professor, Jim Kakalios, is a geek and a nerd. And he’s very cool: He’s a comic book afficionado. He wrote the Physics of Superheroes and designed a college course called “Everything I Know About Physics I Learned From Reading Comic Books.” He also was Hollywood’s choice to be the science adviser for the movie [...]
Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week’s Middle School Performing Arts Showcase featured Rod Serling’s Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. The play chronicles the effects of group paranoia in a small town who’s inhabitants are afraid that space aliens may have landed nearby. Flash forward to last week’s dramatic Leonid meteor shower. Now picture how you would have [...]
The Science of Cooking a Turkey
Posted in Science on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forget Martha Stewart. If you want to cook the perfect turkey, you need physics on your side. Who needs the Food Channel – when you can turn to Gallileo, Feynman or University of Bristol physicist, Dr. Peter Barham, to apply scientific principles to cooking the perfect fowl.
The Miracle Workers
Posted in Science on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published an inspiring study about how, after a single injection of a new gene therapy that produces light-sensitive pigments in the back of the eye, children born with congenital blindness can [...]
Houdini’s Spirit
Posted in Science on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Rosabelle, believe.” These were supposed to be the secret words that Harry Houdini shared with his wife, Bess, before he died on Halloween, 1926. That was to be their secret message to be used as proof that he was communicating with her from beyond the grave. Wanting to believe that he could talk with his [...]
Collect Call From 13 Billion Years Ago
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems like only yesterday. An exploding star’s burst of light traveled 13 billion years, from the early days of the universe before being detected on April 23 by a NASA satellite. Space.com reports that researchers believe that this exploding star is the most distant blast ever seen. They calculate that the explosion happened just [...]
Verde Casa
Posted in Environment, Science, tagged Science, technology on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… Speaking of houses, the 2009 Solar Decathlon ended a week or so ago down on the Washington Mall. Sponsored by the Dept. of Energy, 20 US and international teams competed to build the most energy-efficient and cool-looking solar powered homes. Team Germany took home 1st Prize for largest net production of electricity. California won [...]
Evolution on Planet Play Doh
Posted in Science, tagged biology, Science on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How did multicellular organisms evolve from single cell microbes? Here’s an explanation that even a chil… that even I could understand. Courtesy of Creature Cast, a cool site from the Dunn Lab at Brown University – about the unexpected life of animals.
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