via Neatorama
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Science: Sound Science
Amazing math, anatomy, physics and music lesson. Goes by very quickly, but you can always hit the pause button. from MAKE and Vi Hart.
Inspiration: Tina Turner Proud Mary
Tina Turner's version of Proud Mary. She notes in the introduction, you probably want something "nice and easy," but we don't do things nice and easy.
"The big wheel keeps on turning," Go earn your tomorrow!
via LifeHacker
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Quote: A Shower Doesn't Just Fulfill A Physical Need
Love long showers, can't wait to make mine bigger. via Scrivle
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
TED: The Art Of Living Dangerously
Discussion by William Gurstelle at TED 2011. The trick is to be slightly more risky than the average person. Time to fix up the potato launcher.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Music: Trombone Shorty Solo On Conan 08/15/11
Learned how to link to a specific time on a YouTube video (use the 't' query string).
It doesn't seem to work with the video embed code, just a hyperlink.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Science Fair: Light Theremin
Sounds like an awesome weekend project from Make Projects and Radio Shack.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Photos: Humans of New York
This is a great website. This story is about a homeless entrepreneur. Great Stuff!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Science: Apollo 15 Testing Galileo's Equivalence Principle
Further explanation from NASA regarding Galileo's hypothesis.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Pokemon: Online Pokemon Game
Flash game for Pokemon. You will have to create an account to play. Waiting from the testers for further review.
Via GeekDad.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Diversion: How To Roll a Six Sided Die in Your Head
via Boing Boing, from "MINDHACKER: 60 Tips, Tricks, and games to take your mind to the next level."
To emulate a 6 sided die, follow this procedure:
1. find a short word, such as “cat.”
2. Sum the numerical values of the letters in the word: C = 3, A = 1, T = 20, and then 3+1+20 = 24.
3. Calculate the number modulo 09 (see the section “How It Works” for the procedure).
If the remainder is a 0, 7, or 8, which will happen one third of the time, discard it and try a new word. Otherwise, the remainder will be a pseudo random number from 1 to 6. Congratulations! This is your 6 sided die roll. (The results for the word “cat” is 6.)
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Space: The Moon's North Pole Via LROC
An image of the moon's north pole taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter Camera (LROC).
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Cello: Teen Spirit
Trying to talk Isaac into considering playing cello. This seems like a pretty cool introduction.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Physics: Do We Live In A 3D World?
Can you prove it?
This site has one minute videos regarding various physics subjects.
School: Universal Public Education
This school year is the 93rd year of universal public education. An article from Seth Godin, describes a system originally designed to churn out factory workers.
This weekend Isaac was assigned a large homework project to help him understand literature genres. While we complied with the assignment of printing out the pictures and pasting them into a little book (not raging against the machine too much over here), we first created a website with similar information.
It gave us a good excuse to discuss writing HTML documents, and did not cost any additional time. Dear teacher, the online document is also searchable, linkable, OS independent, and does not require 28 pages of paper.
We'll let you know how it's received.
Rugby: Flash Mob Haka
The Rugby World Cup begins this week in New Zealand. This video shows a flash mob haka. Great stuff! (thanks Mike for the link)
Thursday, September 01, 2011
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