science
THE BLUE PLANET
Ocean World - pt 1
seas of life - pt 2
open ocean - pt 3
frozen seas - pt 4
seasonal seas - pt 5
coral seas - pt 6
tidal seas - pt 7
coasts - pt 8
Extraordinary footage and eloquent narration by David Attenborough highlight the BBC’s remarkable wildlife series The Blue Planet: Seas of Life. “Ocean […]
Visualizing the five kingdoms. It really is worth it to boot up adobe reader to zoom in and out of the pdf.
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Fun with science:
The classic physics experiment involving sound, a tube of propane and fire. Created for Flash Forward 2006, but useful in any case where you are not allowed to have fire. I push through the tube 449 Hz then higher frequencies, then some jazz and then some rock. This is real life sound visualization.
Since downloading the new iTunes 7 update, I’ve started browsing through the podcast directory. I stumbled across the BBC’s documentary (4-part podcast) from August, titled “The Communications Revolution:”
Part 1: Communications: Transformation of business and leisure, and the structure of family and society? (mp3)
Part 2: […]
The Channel Communication Amplifier project. Wikipedia on the original acoustic mirrors in Denge, England.
Lise Autogena’s Sound Mirrors Project is inspired by the derelict acousic mirrors at Denge, England, it aims to create two new sound mirrors on the coast of England and France which will enable people on either side of the Channel to speak […]
The world’s largest wasp.
The hornets often attack honeybee hives with the goal of obtaining the honeybee larvae. The hornets can devastate a colony of honeybees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honeybees per minute; it takes only a few of these hornets a few hours to exterminate the population of a 30,000-member […]
News@Nature looks at the implications of the Internet on research:
This creativity machine is the Internet. It has already changed the way we do science, most importantly by enhancing collaboration between researchers. The present-day Internet provides convenient connections between computerized labs, simulations and research databases. It also represents an enormous financial investment that is driven by […]
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Youtube video!
Wrap your head around this. Check out this wonderful flash visualization accompanied by audio description of 10 dimensions: Imagining the 10th Dimension
Somehow I missed this when it first aired. Luckily, PBS offers the entire excellent three hour special online for free. The NOVA documentary is based on Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe: NOVA | The Elegant Universe
Though there are many different semgents, PBS fortunately provided a "watch next segment" button directly in the viewing […]
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