Category Archives: Channels & Publishers
Sustainable Dance Club
Here’s a cool idea – put transducers under the floor of a night club and use it to generate electricity to run the light and sound rigs. But just how much energy would be converted? Would it be significant?
Javanese White Rhino Filmed!
Yay!
Ujung Kulon national park – a reserve on the western tip of Java, home to a lot of protected wildlife and just a few hours from Bandung – has some young white rhinos! Thought to be on the verge of extinction, they are a sign of hope for the future.
My favourite part was the camera-smackdown at the end.
And whiie we’re on the subject of hope in the Indonesian environment, here’s news of a great success in re-introducing native species to cleared land, up in Borneo.
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Just to balance it with a bit of doom and gloom:
This recent story tells of the clearance of tropical forests to make way for palm oil. Boo!
And this one investigates the effects of Indonesia’s paper industry.
How can we make positive changes in our lives to create real, measurable improvements in the local and global environment?
Bill Nye takes on Pseudoscience
Thanks to mad.scientist from the TES Boards for digging this up.
Click here for PART 2 and PART 3.
Or you could spend the better part of a weekend watching a whole collection on this YouTube playlist.
Fun With Acetate
Thanks to Ben at Badscience for the link.
Here’s an idea for an exothermic reactions demonstration (original post from b3ta.com)
It’s all over! Good luck with the results…
Last night recorded a record number of hits for this blog – and nearly all the search terms were for the Further Human Physiology topics, so I hope the paper went well for you all today. I know my class left the room feeling OK, so fingers crossed for July!
Unwind for an evening with some Science comedy:
Physics next week?
Gene Therapy ‘Reverses Hereditary Blindness’
Awesome. And just in time for the Grade 11 Genetics unit!
Here’s the NewScientist article. And here’s an old one about gene therapy treating deafness.
Here is an article from the Guardian’s Science section that sums it up nicely.
Learn.Genetics @ Utah has loads of gene therapy interactives to learn more.
And for the hard-of-researching, here is the gene therapy wikipedia page.
Exciting times we live in.
The $50 SMARTBoard
This is just unbelievable, for two reasons:
1. If it works, you get thousands of dollars of functionality for near nowt.
2. You get an excuse to bring a Wii to school.
Here’s Johnny Lee and his Wii hacks (thanks to Henri Bemelmans for letting me know):
And while you’re at it…
Go and spend some time on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) website – there are some really top-class talks.
Animal Farm (Not the Orwellian one)
A while ago I posted about glowing pigs and fish and couldn’t work out where it had come from. Thanks to stitchintime from the TES Boards, I found out it was from Channel 4’s ‘Animal Farm’ series on genetic engineering.
Here’s the first part of episode 1:
It’s probably a good idea to save all the parts of it before it gets taken down. Here’s the link.
YouTube Blocked – disaster (averted)
Aduh, YouTube has been blocked by the Indonesian government because of a dispute over the movie Fitna. I haven’t seen it, though it apparently paints a pretty negative picture of Islam.
This is going to slow things down on the blog, but I’ll keep trying to find useful non-YouTube sources that will help with Science topics.
Hopefully they’ll see sense soon and lift the ban.
Luckily, the ever-growing TeacherTube is still going strong.
UPDATE – it’s back on again – I wonder whey they changed their minds?
Let’s celebrate with a recent item from Newsnight:
Thanks to Badscience for the heads up.
i-Biology 