{"id":3605,"date":"2009-04-19T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/19\/links-for-2009-04-19\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T05:00:25","slug":"links-for-2009-04-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/19\/links-for-2009-04-19\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-04-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/interactive\/star-formation-game\/?searchterm=star%20formation\">Star Formation: The Game | DISCOVER Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Play the Hand of God and place supernovae to produce star-forming regions in a cloud of gas. My best score is just over 2000.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/magazine\/19wwln-q4-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine\">Questions for Steven Chu &#8211; The Science Guy &#8211; The Green Issue &#8211; Interview &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Was anyone in your family impressed when you won the Nobel Prize in Physics?<br \/>\nProbably, but who knows? I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThat\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nice \u00e2\u0080\u0094 and when are you going to see me next?\u00e2\u0080\u009d&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/Nobel\">Nobel<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/apr\/17\/water-balloons-test-laws-physics-pasco-school\/\">Water balloons test laws of physics at Pasco school<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Mark Heller calmly read a copy of &quot;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer&quot; as water balloons splashed around him.<br \/>\nThe head master at Academy at the Lakes, Heller, with his Panama hat, suit and bow tie, was sitting calmly in a row boat in the middle of a lake behind the private school on Collier Parkway.<br \/>\nAbout 100 meters away, teams of students from Roderic Brame&#8217;s physics class were launching water balloons at him with a large sling shot fashioned out of a lacrosse goal.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dead.atyourage.com\/\">Dead At Your Age \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Deaths of interesting people at your age<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Congratulations! You&#8217;ve just outlived some interesting people. Tell us your date of birth, and we&#8217;ll tell you who they were.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mareserinitatis.livejournal.com\/619345.html\">Faraday&#8217;s Cage is where you put Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat &#8211; Why I&#8217;m an educational freak<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I realize that my experiences have probably led me down a road far different than some (but not all) of the parents. I think that experiential learning is far more important for younger kids. Being around kids with similar interests is important. They are not adults, and I think that, when they are older, they will be far happier and successful if they are not dependent on a structure or system to tell them how to do everything. They will be far more creative if they haven&#8217;t been taught that they need to be confined.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7999909.stm\">BBC NEWS | Africa | Man bites snake in epic struggle<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Another true story to make fiction writers despair.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/international\">international<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/weirdness\">weirdness<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/article\/greatturtlerace.html\">The Great Turtle Race &#8211; National Geographic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Eleven leatherback sea turtles are taking part in the Great Turtle Race, speeding from foraging grounds in the frigid waters of Canada to nesting beaches on the sun-soaked shores of the Caribbean. The turtles are tagged with state-of-the-art satellite tracking devices that allow us to follow their incredible 3,700-mile (6,000-kilometer) journey.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Formation: The Game | DISCOVER Magazine Play the Hand of God and place supernovae to produce star-forming regions in a cloud of gas. My best score is just over 2000. 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