Category: Links Dump

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Schrodinger’s job interview. (tags: silly physics history comics smbc) NASA Space Games | Wired Science | Wired.com “The future is now. NASA wants to start playing space games. Check out this NASA Spaced Out Sports Design Challenge. Unfortunately, the challenge is geared towards grades 5-8, but I can’t help thinking about this.… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-06

Five close-approach images of Hartley 2 by Deep Impact, with commentary – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society “Here’s the five close-approach images of Hartley 2 captured today, November 4, 2010, by the Deep Impact spacecraft, collected into one file. Boy, do these images reward close examination!” (tags: science astronomy pictures space blogs… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-05

Blog U.: 7 Ways College Has Improved Since 91 – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed “We spend so much time worrying about what is wrong with our U.S. higher ed system that it is easy to lose sight of how much the system has improved over the past 20 years. This is a… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-04

Motorcycle tablecloth trick: could it be done? | Wired Science | Wired.com “After watching this episode, a colleague had a great question: “How fast would the MythBusters have to go to make this trick work?” Interesting. In their last attempt, they had the motorcycle going around 100 mph. It did’t work, but some of the stuff… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-03

Buddy Comedy Idea § Unqualified Offerings “So, because the FBI has a habit of finding losers, coaxing them off the couch, holding their hands through the process of planning a terrorist attack, and then arresting them, let me propose this concept for a screenplay:” (tags: movies politics writing war world us blogs unqualified-offerings culture comedy)

Views: No Excuses, Mr. President – Inside Higher Ed “Most parents and taxpayers consistently share the beliefs of most teachers about what needs to be done to improve our schools. An August Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa survey showed respondents agreeing with teachers that the largest problem with schools is a shortfall in funding, that the major… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-31

The Forever Blog « Easily Distracted “There’s been talk that blogs are over and Twitter and Facebook are king. I meant to say something about this issue when the end of Bitch Ph.D was announced, since that was an important blog for me and many other people. I think it’s only half-right to say that… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-30

Polson High School students use primitive bows to study physics “It’s one thing to put Montana’s Indian Education for All Act to work in a social studies classroom. Physics? That would seem to be a whole ‘nother matter. And it is. But certainly not, as Polson High School teacher Jon Petersen is proving, impossible. Petersen’s… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-29

Take better photos of friends and family: Turn off your flash. – By Steven I. Weiss – Slate Magazine “The flash didn’t go off” has been shorthand for photographic failure for more than 100 years, but the conventional wisdom on lighting is now being challenged by advances in camera technology. The quickest, simplest, cheapest way… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-28

Video: Fingerless Robotic Hand Can Pick Anything | Wired Science | Wired.com “The simple gripper is made of a bag of coffee grounds and a vacuum, though other grains such as couscous and sand also work, says study coauthor Eric Brown of the University of Chicago. To pick something up, the bag of loose grounds… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-27