Scientific Literacy with Ms. Ghazarian 2011-2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Baboons Display 'Reading' Skills, Study Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416125245.htm
Baboon foot hitting a word on the screen to indicate if it is an English word.
(Credit: Image courtesy of CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange))
Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. The Computer - Interactive
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html
By GABRIEL DANCE and TOM JACKSON
Additional Production: Xaquín G.V. and Paul Lau/The New York Times
Historical game data courtesy of Shawn Bayern
Toxin Alert: Air Fresheners Pollute the Air with Hormone Disruptors
By Jameson McMullen
http://cincovidas.com/toxin-alert-air-fresheners-pollute-the-air-with-hormone-disruptors/
Febreze air fresheners. 5 April 2012. Own Work.
Author: KRoock74
White Blood Cells - Interactive
By Jason Goodman
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=ap14704
http://highwhitebloodcellcount.org/?p=15
Electric Fish Charges up Research on Animal Behavior - Video
http://www.livescience.com/video/
Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). Taken at the New England Aquarium (Boston, MA, December 2006.
Copyright © 2006 Steven G. Johnson and donated to Wikipedia under GFDL and CC-by-SA.
Squeeze Power
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/03/squeeze-power/
The blue glow in the sole of this shoe shows a chemical reaction at work.
Credit: H. T. Baytekin and B. Baytekin
Meat From Scratch
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/04/meat-from-scratch/
Biologist Mark Post holds a sample of the engineered meat he’s growing in his Dutch lab.
Credit: Reuters
Deep Brain Stimulation - Virtual Brain Surgery - Interactive
http://www.edheads.org/activities/brain_stimulation/index.shtml
Help Dr. Vanessa Mei cut, probe and drill her way to helping her patient cope with a movement disorder through brain surgery!
http://www.edheads.org/activities/brain_stimulation/index.shtml
How The Earth Was Made - Oceans - Video
By Camille Borkowski
http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-earth-was-made/videos/oceans#oceans
"The Blue Marble" photograph of Earth,
taken from Apollo 17
NASA. Photo taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans (of the Apollo 17 crew).
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