The End of AIDS?
World AIDS Day is almost upon us again: 1st December. This video was tweeted by @StephenFry today – give it a look over to see how ARV drugs may be used in prevention as well as treatment.
[vimeo 32317889]To find out more, visit the End to AIDS website, where you can also read a history of World AIDS Day.
Atoms & Bonding Resources
Resources for our G9 unit on our short unit on Atoms & Bonding are posted on the main page here. MrT’s class, our work is all on the GoogleSite. This will run right into our next unit on Reactions & Formulas.
Here is a BBC Documentary on Atoms, with Jim Al-Khalili:
Science Stunts for Parties
Richard Wiseman is a psychologist and author of Quirkology, the Curious Science of Everyday Lives. He also has a YouTube channel loaded with illusions and tricks. As dinner-party season approaches, here are some collections of little science tricks to impress your granny. Be careful with flames.
Technical Issues with SlideShare
Some of the SlideShare presentations have been displaying poorly recently, and many of the links have stopped working from within the presentations. This seems to affect the presentations which are more than a couple of years old. I have re-uploaded a couple, which might help. Hopefully SlideShare will fix their issues soon, as with over 90 presentations, 40 documents and lots of links and embeds it is too big a job to start from the beginning.
EDIT – I’ve contacted SlideShare and they say they aware of the problem and are acting to fix it.
Solutions for now:
- Use the images in the presentations as keyword hints for searches
- Follow links on the subject content pages here
- Download the presentation and follow the links (but stick to the acceptable use guidelines and do not re-host on other internet servers).
If anyone knows of other good presentation servers, please let me know. SlideShare works well with WordPress – Prezi, Slidrocket and others cannot be embedded here, due to the WordPress security settings regarding Flash.
Robin Ince and the Infinite Monkey Cage
Robin Ince, rationalist and science-minded comic, give a short TED Talk on Science vs Wonder:
He also has a radio show/ podcast called The Infinite Monkey Cage, hosted with Brian Cox on the BBC. In this episode, Six Degrees of Separation, they discuss the connections of humans with Stephen Fry, Simon Singh and Alex Krotoski.
Movember 2011 – sponsorship links
It’s Mo-vember again and the facial foliage is taking shape. It also just happens to be mid-way through right after the November 2011 session Biology exams. A perfect time to launch an appeal for sponsorship from teachers and students who have used this site in their studies.
My MoVember page
Movember is simple – grow a mo’ for the month of Movember to raise money and awareness of oft-ignored men’s health issues, such as testicular cancer, prostate cancer and depression.
November sessioners (and others), here is a chance to pay it forwards by giving to something seasonal and topical: please make a donation at my MoSpace page! Please get on board or show your support for all the free resources posted here by making a small donation.
In other appeals so far, i-Biology has raised around GBP300 for various charities through my Biology4Good donations page.
Here’s a curriculum link for good measure: 2.5 Cell Division (tumours and cancer).
Mo yeah.
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Movember videos:
First up – some of the real impacts made by Movember fundraising – with real science.
And here are the rules of Movember:
The Biggest Wave Ever Surfed
Garret McNamara, a Hawaiian surfer who looks suspiciously like the dad from Modern Family, has broken the world record for the largest wave ever surfed. At an estimated 90 feet (30 metres), the wave is off Nazaré, Portugal. Here it is:
This video clip from the Guardian has his board-cam and a short interview with him.
To find out more about the science of riding big waves, this is a good ten-minute clip from KQED Quest explains how giant waves are formed at Mavericks.
Riding Giants, about the history of big wave surfing and Laird Hamilton, is great too.
Command Terms and Drawing Skills
My class need to review the definitions and the way we approach some of these command terms, so here is the Command Terms presentation as a reminder. November sessioners – your exam is in one week! Maybe these resources will help.
Get practicing with those calculators, too.
Using your IB Bio GoogleSite
This is for my IB Bio SL class: keep the site updated using these tips:
(Go fullscreen and HD)
Hans Rosling’s Joy of Stats
Now available in full, this one-hour documentary is on Hans Rosling’s GapMinder website.
A brilliant, visual and entertaining view of 1.1 Statistical Analysis, using real datasets and graphics to highlight statistics, means, distributions, graphical representation, correlation and cause. It is most relevant to us from the start up to 37:30.
Here is a neat clip from the show when it aired on the BBC.
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