“Thar’s gold in them there petri dishes !”
Are you about to remodel your home and always wanted a room like this: Or have you been looking at the Nieman-Marcus Christmas Catalog and thinking about this gift for that special someone: But then you remember you are a Science teacher and not a Hedge Fund Manager. Take […]
Pierre Vernier
On this date in 1638, Pierre Vernier died. This French mathematician, although born into the Spanish Hapsburg Empire developed the measuring system and calipers that bear his name. The measuring system is still used in many devices. Today we live in the digital era where countless devices tells us time, temperature, length, and eight. […]
IT’S NOT A JOKE
Remote controlled cockroaches. Proof that scientists will go where nobody may have wanted them too. Here’s the article from CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57509894-1/eek-remote-controlled-cyborg-cockroaches-are-real/ Shake it off, then read the article. There are some serious applications that you might want to present to your classes. But leave some time for their re-action to subside. Here’s a UK link […]
The Return of the Blog
Joseph Campbell wrote: “You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.” ― Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell […]
Say it ain’t so, Indy !
Archaeologists have discovered seventeen new pyramids in Egypt. Not this kind of archaeologist: No – SPACE ARCHAEOLOGISTS ! Using satellites and infra red imaging, a team of space archaeologists have located the new pyramids, along with 1000 tombs and 3000 heretofore undiscovered settlement, the BBC reports. The work has been pioneered at the University of […]
Today in History – The Scopes Trial & Social Studies Teachers
Today in 1925, a preliminary hearing began to determine if John Scopes, a Tennessee school teacher who had been charged with violating the Butler Act, should be remanded over for trial. The Butler Act forbade teaching ” any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and […]
SUMMERTIME at Cornell…..
And the living is easy…cooling lake breezes …….mountain vistas……Shakespeare at the Plantations…….hiking mountain gorges…all yours…. especially if you’re a science teacher attending our world re-nowned summer workshop! Just click on the image to enlarge. Or visit the main website. Then stock up on sunscreen and seersucker and send in your application.
Need more time?
They can’t make more time for you to get things done, but they may be able to make more of you. Think Avatars. No not the movie. However gaming technology is moving ahead so quickly, that a NYT article says the days of sending your avatar to a meeting while you go to yoga […]
Remembering Yuri
On this date in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Gagarin flew in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, which wasn’t as a big as a respectable hot tub today. The flight lasted 108 minutes, and unlike later flights, Gagarin left the capsule and parachuted to earth separately. He didn’t have any Tang on […]
First the light, and then the dark
When the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermi Labs was first built in 1983, it was the largest circular accelerator in the world. Yesterday the facility in Batavia, Illinois announced that it had found evidence of a new particle. This discovery described as ” the most significant in half a century” could be the long searched for […]
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