I was browsing around newgrounds.com this evening and stumbled across this real gem of a flash app, it’s called “The Scale of the Universe by FotoShop”.
The application breaks the universe down into the smallest possible pieces know to man and then back up to the largest, in a cool flash app. Who could want more?
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We probably have all encountered scientifically ignorant people, for some people knowing the complexities of the universe is simply not interesting. This ignorance is generally spawned within the Medias interpretation of science and scientists; however a scientist known as Len Fisher is doing something about this by communicating science to the general community. Earlier in […]
There’s a great post up over at Future Public Health Official by Anna Yeung on circumcision and HIV — listeners to the podcast will remember this topic came up and Anna wrote in then. She’s expanded on her points for this article, so go check it out — it’s well worth a read.
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
Everyone I know has sat through an awkward class (or sequence of classes) at school. The one where the teacher bumbles along, being either a little embarrassed by the subject matter or just not any good at teaching it. The subject is, of course, sexual education, that most difficult of themes to effectively teach or […]
Via Dr Isis over at ScienceBlogs I found this marvelous video explaining safety in the lab. Even if the demo lab is a dirty, dirty chemistry lab. Dirty.
They’ve got another song that just made me wet myself called the Nano Song over at their website, The Sounds of Science. You go check it out while I […]
I was having a discussion a few weeks ago with a student teacher, who “found a great video on YouTube” that she was going to use in class to show the students that mobile phones emit electromagnetic waves, and I am assuming, that these waves carry energy.
The English language can be tough to nut out sometimes. Luckily, this handy dandy article clears up a source of perennial frustration for punctuation snobs: The apostrophe!
So, if you’ve ever signified third person singular possession with an apostrophe, you need this article. Go and read it right now!
This is an excerpt from A.C. Grayling’s book, The Reason of Things:
