If you have kids, or teach, or were observant when you were a kid yourself, you know that kids learn in all different ways. Some are happy to sit quietly and read a book, some need the visual input from photo and video and some want to sing and dance their way to learning the material...
Back in October, I opened my email to find an interesting invitation for me to apply for a trip to India as part of a special International Reporting Project bloggers' trip focusing on child survival and related issues of health and development.The trip described in full "The trip will focus on issues of child survival in India...
I've never had the pleasure of being in the UK at the time that the Royal Institute of Great Britain have aired their very famous Christmas Lectures, but I hear often from followers and friends in the UK on social media how many of them have been positively impacted by these lectures.The history of the RI Christmas Lectures is quite long and rich...
Here is the latest in cool biotechnology at the microscopic level: "Researchers at the University of Tokyo are using cells to fold microscopic origami shapes.
These are some of my favorite videos from 2012. Which were your favorites this past year?Seven Minutes of Terror. A very well-produced video from NASA about how engineers worked to execute the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover...
During the time I taught laboratory courses here at the University of Illinois in cell and molecular biology (After nearly 20 years of that, I've moved to online teaching to give myself more flexibility for science outreach), I would often tell the students, particularly the ones who were considering going into research, that the best sources of information on lab techniques, supplies, and equipment would be the technical materials literature and tech support from product suppliers...
When a high speed object collides with force, we tend to focus on the spectacular (yet potentially devastating) view from a macro scale, but Duke scientists have been researching what that incredible energy transfer looks like at the level of sand and dirt size particles...
Dogs are great at learning things. They love to be taught how to fetch, roll over, and heel, for instance. You can also teach them physics. Physicist Chad Orzel has proven this with his two books "How to Teach Physics to your Dog" and the more specialized, "How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog".Here, his dog Emmy is looking for "The Bacon Boson"...
World AIDS Day is approaching on December 1. As I was looking up more about World AIDS Day and awareness and testing guidelines/suggestions, I discovered there are several other similar days for awareness including National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), June 27, an annual observance to promote HIV testing...
Beautiful. Stunning. Hypnotic.Only a few of the words to describe this video posted by Christoph Malin, an outdoor journalist and cinematographer.And watch, at about 1:42 you'll see Comet "Lovejoy" rising...
Ph.Diddy, everyone's favorite novice grad student from Life Technologies, has returned in the third of a series of videos (first, second (about PhDiva)) celebrating the life of a researcher, and this time, he heads to his first conference!Who can forget posters, presentations, crowded talks and networking?...
A compelling science documentary about the story behind the controversial "discovery" of cold fusion is an official selection of the Chicago International Film Festival, playing this week!Yes, you read that right, a SCIENCE film at an International Film Festival!...
How much do you really know about Tuberculosis, otherwise commonly called TB? The University of Michigan Department of Engineering (friendly rival to my home U of Illinois) has put out a very accessible animated tutorial so you can learn more.Check it out: This video is included as a comprehensive article entitled "Peering into the black box of Tuberculosis" discussing TB as a worldwide problem and what some U-M researchers are doing to help understand the disease more fully...
During a bit of insomnia one night a few weeks ago, I checked on my twitter timeline, where I can catch some tweets from those awake across the Atlantic, to find someone had referenced a new contest that wants to reward a talented videographer for creating a new video to replace the controversial video from the European Commission's initiative to encourage girls to consider science, Science, It's a Girl Thing...
From Argonne Labs comes this intriguing video demonstrating the acoustic levitation of liquids on a piece of equipment developed for NASA to simulate microgravity conditions.
Last year, I told you about a contest that allowed teens to submit an experiment to be done on the International Space Station. Winners were chosen and now they are eagerly awaiting the result of their experiments!...
Who is not charmed by the quirky science that is recognized each year by the Ig Nobel Prizes? For those who are unaware of this amazing phenomenon, here is the description from their website: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think...
What a reddit find! Physics student Tim Blais has begun an odyssey of creating harmonically enjoyable science-packed song videos! On his Facebook page, he describes it as "An educational and utterly nerdy online video project." I'm all for that!On his about page, we read: "A Capella Science is an online video project by Tim Blais, a physics master's student and lifelong harmony junkie...
Everyone knows by now of the versatile sports cameras by GoPro. People are capturing interesting videos with them across the spectrum of sports, day-to-day life, and even science.Mark Peters went out fishing for Albacore Tuna west of Santa Monica, CA, and had made a clear torpedo casing to hold his GoPro camera beforehand...
I stayed up last night to watch the incredible event of the successful landing of Mars Curiosity only a projected 262 meters from planned site at 10:14:39 PDT official touchdown time in order to tweet (and retweet from the space pros and those in attendance of the many NASA social events watching the event) to keep my social media followers up to date.For those who didn't watch the stream from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on NASA TV live feed, you can see it here now...
