Friday, December 9, 2011

Coconut-Carrying Octopus - Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk

museumvictoria.com.au

Design a Cell Phone - Interactive

http://www.edheads.org/activities/eng_cell/index.shtml

enviroliteracy.org

Create a Stem Cell Line - Interactive

http://www.edheads.org/activities/stem1/index.shtml


Human embryonic stem cell colony on mouse embryonic fibroblast feeder layer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell


NASA Finds New Planet Kepler 22b Outside Solar System With Temperature Right for Life - Video

BY JOE MEYERSON


http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nasa-finds-new-planet-kepler-22b-outside-solar-system-with-temperature-right-for-life/2011/12/07/gIQAPfzFdO_story.html

A diagram of the Kepler-22b System, compared to our Inner Solar System.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-22b



Cache Cab: Taxi Driver's Brain Grow to Navigate London's Streets

BY DAVID DUNCAN


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=london-taxi-memory

STREET SMARTS: Navigating labyrinthine London to earn a taxi license plumps up the hippocampus. 
Image: Wikimedia Commons 

Forget Why You Walked in a Room? Doorways to Blame, Study Finds

BY CAMILLE BORKOWSKI


http://www.livescience.com/17132-forget-walked-room-doorways-blame-study-finds.html

                                                                       lifeslittlemysteries.com

NASA Discovers Earth-Like Planet "Kepler-22b"

BY LUCA PISTOR


http://www.dailytech.com/NASA+Discovers+EarthLike+Planet+Kepler22b/article23439.htm

Kepler-22b  (Source: wired.com)

NASA - Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star - Video

BY NICHOLAS SONG


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/devoured-star.html

Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-Ray telescopes (yellow and red) were combined to make this view of Swift J1644+57. Evidence of the flares is seen only in the X-ray image, which is a 3.4-hour exposure taken on March 28, 2011. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler



Discovery of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist

BY BEN BECKMAN


http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/11/20/discovery.giant.roaming.deep.sea.protist.provides.new.perspective.animal.evolution

Dr. Mikhail Matz, the University of Texas at Austin

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream - Youtube

BY NATE TAUSIK


http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001366.html

Friday, November 18, 2011

1000 x 1000 x 1000 Rubik's Cube Solved YouTube

BY ETHAN VILLARAMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Vhs0Xe02k

gottasolveit.blogspot.com




Blind Man Uses His Ears to See

BY EMORY KIM


http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/tech/innovation/daniel-kish-poptech-echolocation/index.html

Human echolocation lets blind man 'see'
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/tech/innovation/daniel-kish-poptech-echolocation/index.html


Scanning Electron Microscope Interactive

http://nanozone.org/sem/sem.htm

purdue.edu

French Digital Kitchen is a Recipe for Success

BY DAVID DUNCAN


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024084239.htm

Students using the French Digitial Kitchen at Newcastle University. 
(Credit: Image courtesy of Newcastle University)

"Green" Biofuels

BY CAMI KATZ


http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20111009223825data_trunc_sys.shtml

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20111009223825data_trunc_sys.shtml

Grow Your Own Clothes - Video

BY CYPRESS TOOMEY


http://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_lee_grow_your_own_clothes.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-29/opinion/lee.grow.clothes_1_cellulose-green-tea-kombucha?_s=PM:OPINION

Virus Worker Game Interactive

http://nanozone.org/virusworker.htm

beadfx.com

Teeny Tiny Medicine

http://www.nanooze.org/main/Nanooze/NanoMedicine/Entries/2010/8/24_Travels_through_the_east.html

Design & Programming by Clarissa Lui | Webhosting by Spider Graphics Corporation


What WIll The Future Taste Like?

http://www.nanooze.org/main/Nanooze/NanoFood/Entries/2010/7/27_Day_of_longboarding.html

Design & Programming by Clarissa Lui | Webhosting by Spider Graphics Corporation


Monday, November 7, 2011

Water Drop at 2000 Frames Per Second - YouTube Clip

http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm

image from liquidsculpture.com

Hong Kong Shoebox Apartments - You Tube Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iFJ3ncIDo

Growing up in Hong Kong, space was a luxury Gary Chang didn't have. Instead, to him, luxury meant the highest efficiency living while being able to share the corridor he considered his "room" with his four other family members and a tenant. So, we guess it should be no surprise that when he grew up to become an architect, he would create an astounding 344 square feet apartment capable of changing into 24 different rooms, all via sliding panels and walls.
Image: Design Tavern

Cyclops Shark & Other Cryptic Creatures Make October Creepy

BY NICHOLAS SONG


A fetal shark cut from the belly of a pregnant shark caught in the Gulf of California. The shark, which would likely not have survived outside the womb, had only one eye. Credit: Pisces Fleet Sportfishing                                             

Saber-Toothed Squirrel From Age of Dinosaurs Discovered

BY LUCA PISTOR


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1103/Saber-toothed-squirrel-from-age-of-dinosaurs-discovered

An acorn-crazy pre-historic saber-toothed squirrel known as Scrat reacts to the onslaught of a new Ice Age in the 2002 animated film 'Ice Age.'
Twentieth Century Fox


Wind Energy Pros and Cons

BY KEVIN SHAO


http://energyinformative.org/wind-energy-pros-and-cons/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windmills_D1-D4_%28Thornton_Bank%29.jpg
Author: Hans Hillewaert

Gut Instinct

BY DAVID DUNCAN


http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/06/gut-instinct/


Caption: This is a microscopic closeup of E. coli, your single-cell frenemy. The kinds of E. coli that live in your intestines help everything run smoothly. But when E. coli is ingested through contaminated food, the bacteria can cause big problems for humans. 
 Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH


Swirling Seas of Plastic Trash

BY ANTHONY WEINRAUB


http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/06/swirling-seas-of-plastic-trash/

The ocean dumps literally tons of plastic trash on Hawaii’s Kamilo Beach each year. 
Credit: Amanda Rose Martinez

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Star Size Comparison YouTube Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=email


(image courtesy of: http://www.kiroastro.com/writings/perspective)




Your Weight on Other Worlds

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html


http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html

UK Surgeons Separate Twins Girls Joined at Head

BY JULIA KUSHELL


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110919/D9PRNV1G0.html


(AP) Undated handout photo released Sunday Sept.18, 2011 by British charity Facing the World of...

Meow Meow. Two-faced Cat Wins Place in Record Book

BY CHLOE FREITAS


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/09/meow-meow-two-faced-cat-wins-place-in-record-book.html


Photo: Frank and Louie is cuddled by his owner. Credit: Steven Senne /Associated Press

Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice

BY GWEN OSTERGREN


http://www.coolhunting.com/tech/polar-bear-spy.php


Clever camerawork captures endangered polar bears on their trek across the Arctic tundra

by Jacob Resneck in Tech on 8 March 2011



Is the Wii Really Good for Your Health?

BY KEVIN SHAO


http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1584697,00.html


People use the Nintendo Wii for exercise.
Nintendo / AP



Friday, October 7, 2011

Vitamin G: Video Games and You

http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2010/03/09/vitamin-g-video-games-and-you/

***Play Jack’s Game BEFORE Reading the Post!***
Link to Jack's game is on the article
http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2010/03/09/vitamin-g-video-games-and-you/
Jack playing a video game

Who Lives in the Eleventh Dimension? Video Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE7xRgfPjAI&feature=channel

image courtesy of BBC


Cold-Water Detergents Get a Cold Shoulder

BY AMANDA OH


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/business/cold-water-detergents-get-a-chilly-reception.html?_r=4&emc=eta1

A researcher for Procter & Gamble, Jack English, with fabric test samples. P.&. G makes Tide Coldwater, a category leader.
Tom Uhlman for The New York Times

Particles Moved Faster Than Speed of Light?

BY LOLA RICE


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110923-neutrinos-speed-of-light-particles-cern-physics-einstein-science/

Workers help build the neutrino-beam facility used at CERN to shoot particles to Italy in a 2005 picture.
Photograph courtesy Maximilien Brice, CERN


Global Warming

BY KEVIN SHAO

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/

Monday, September 26, 2011

Ancestors of Land Plants Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110417214202.htm



Carnivorous plants say 'cheese'

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/03/carnivorous-plants-say-‘cheese’/


The end of the line. Bugs go in but they don't ever leave. This is an up-close image of a bug-sucking bladder of the aquatic bladderwort. (Carmen Weißkopf)

What's on your genes?

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/09/what’s-on-your-genes/


These two mice are genetically identical and exactly the same age. Each mouse’s mother received a different, specialized diet, which switched on or off chemical clusters called methyl groups that reside near genes. Flipping these genetic switches created differences in size, fur color and health in the otherwise identical offspring. Credit: Randy Jirtle/Duke University

Disease Detective Interactive

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/disease-detective.html

Image from diseasetectives.org

Ancient Proof of Aliens: Fact or Fantasy? - Aliens UFOs wikileaks community

BY KEVIN SHAO

http://www.niternat.com/group/generalufoalienboard/forum/topics/ancient-proof-of-aliens-fact-or-fantasy?commentId=6368144%3AComment%3A48673&xg_source=activity&groupId=6368144%3AGroup%3A530

http://jerrycurl.blogspot.com/2011/08/ufo-sightings-increase-over-last-3.html

FAQs about Polar Bears

BY AVA DOBBS


http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/faq#q1


© Daniel J. Cox/NaturalExposures.com

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Worldwide Endangered Animal List

BY BEN BECKMAN


http://www.earthsendangered.com/list.asp

http://webecoist.com/2008/10/29/8-majestic-but-critically-endangered-mammals/?ref=search

'Spongebob' Cartoon Can Cloud Kids' Concentration

BY LUCA PISTOR


http://www.livescience.com/15995-fast-moving-cloud-kids-brains.html

inquisitr.com

Exploding Star Coming to a Telescope Near You

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/08/nearby-supernova-may-help-dark.html

The arrow marks PTF 11kly in images taken on the Palomar 48-inch telescope over the nights of, from left to right, Aug. 22, 23 and 24. The supernova wasn't there Aug. 22, was discovered Aug. 23, and brightened considerably by Aug. 24. CREDIT: Peter Nugent and the Palomar Transient Factory


An Enemy in the Cave

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/06/an-enemy-in-the-cave/

Most of the little brown bats in this photo are dead from white-nose syndrome. This Lackawanna County, Pa., mine is one of many sites in the United States and Canada contaminated with the disease. Credit: Gregory Turner, Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Battery Powered to Heal

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/04/battery-powered-to-heal/

Battery Capsles