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?
Space: the Final Frontier
Just how big is the Universe? The Hubble telescope helped us find out…
Some more space resources:
YourSky – excellent star map that lets you control many variables and print.
Stardate – a collection of excellent resources for stargazers, students and teachers (including how old/heavy am I on other planets?)
Lots of good FAQs from Stardate
Deepsky2003 starmap plotting software
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)
Magic Pen – A Phun Game for wasting valuable study time
Thanks to Danny Nicholson at the WhiteboardBlog.
Similar to the Phun application I mentioned a while back, here’s a simpler game-style version. It’s in Flash and can be saved with the Firefox app, so it can be played on the whiteboard later.
What are you doing working?
Go over there and waste some time! (Joking)
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?
Virtual Echocardiography
This resource from Toronto General Hospital’s Perioperative Interactive Education unit gives a good view of two sections through the heart, with ECG loops to match the image. Good for seeing the normal function of cardiac valves.
Updated and includes guide sheets, quizzes and a range of languages.
Dihybrid Crosses, Gene Linkage and Recombination
More links to be added very soon.
Worksheets: sooty-dihybrids-and-linkage, understanding-recombination
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