Serendipita

MetaFilter: I Got Your ‘One Giant Leap’ Right Here.

“On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger jumped from a helium balloon at 102,800 feet, over 19 miles up. After free-falling for four and a half minutes and reaching 614 MPH, almost breaking the sound barrier, he opened his parachute at 18,000 feet and landed safe and sound after an almost 14 minute descent. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.”

There are many good links in that posting; I’m not going to repeat them here, but instead send you there to read for yourself.

Lehrerrundmail: Virtuelle Experimente.

“Auf den Seiten der Uni Bayreuth stehen verschiedene interaktive Bildschirmexperimente zum Download oder direkten Aufruf im Browser bereit (Flashplayer vorausgesetzt). In der aktuellen Version stehen nur Experimente aus dem Bereich Elektrotechnik zur Verfügung. So kann z.B. der Umgang mit dem Multimeter virtuell geprobt werden, Widerstände in Reihe oder parallel geschaltet werden und einiges mehr. Alle Versuche sind ansprechend graphisch aufbereitet und durchdacht umgesetzt”.

André was kind enough to upgrade my weblog to the latest version of WordPress. Since my template looked too much like autumn anyway I decided to update that as well. Hope you like the new look! And let me know if something is wonky, looks weird or doesn’t work as it should.