Oh, wait, I am a science teacher.
ScienceDemo.org is a website full of science experiments that are demonstrated in front of a camera. This is a great resource for teachers, or you could just watch them for fun!
If you can’t get enough of these, the site also offers a list of similar websites: resources and links.
Link via Hal on FB.
… I would go nuts over this useful and beautiful animated world map that shows the wind. Updated every three hours.
Rotate the earth, look at the poles and see the Coriolis force in action, zoom in and out – so fun!
BBC Scotland: The Fantastic Mr Feynman ias an hour-long documentary about Richard Feynman, his work and his personal life. Includes interviews with his sister Joan, his children Carl and Michelle, and friends and colleagues like Ralph Leighton and Freeman Dyson. Worth watching!
Two Feynman quotes from the film:
“I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.”
“There is pleasure in recognising old things from a new viewpoint.”
Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? “Hint: The answer has more to do with ‘The Big Bang Theory’ than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.” By Eileen Pollack.
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ “An age of darkness ended with a searing light, which shook the earth, and the great device was rendered unto thee.” By Fred Vogelstein.
Guess who made it onto Wired‘s frontpage?
Check Out This Tiny 3-D Printed Spaceship
“The tiny spaceship in the video above was built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite, and it took less than 50 seconds to produce. The super-fast, high-resolution printer that made the spaceship was introduced this week at the Photonics West fair by Nanoscribe GmbH, a company based in Germany that specializes in nanophotonics and 3-D laser lithography.”
My husband built the machine that built this tiny spaceship! :-)
[A few hours later:] The tiny spaceship is also featured on Gizmodo: Watch These Lasers Print a Microscopic Spaceship In Under a Minute.
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