Before you check out the videos and links, perhaps you can take a minutes to sign a petition to raise the allotment of tax money to increase NASA's funding?
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| This guy is not quite as cuddly as the Easter Bunny |
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| A very cool NPR story that I heard on the radio about using music to teach math and fractions!. Creative education that works is so wonderful! |
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| A really creative fix that may allow us to utilize brown seaweed for biofuel! I wouldn't mind going to the coast and helping with that research! |
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| I'm afraid some of the sound clip links may not be functioning, but an interesting article nevertheless about how things sound on different planets! The thunder clips are my favorite! |
I came across this video series (The Feynman Series) which serves as a compliment to the Sagan Series. Richard Feynman is another notable scientific communicator. This Nobel Prize co-winner was invaluable to the field of physics and made contributions both within his research and passion for teaching and popularizing the subject. What I really love about these series of videos is that they serve as such unique tools for inspiring interest in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). I want to soak up as many of these as possible so I can understand what I love about them most and try and use that to inspire my own attempts. I've found both more visual and awe-inspiring videos, such as the one above, and more silly attempts:
Another cool TED talk (can you tell I'm border-line obsessed with these?) by the author of Eat, Pray, Love. She talks about the notion of having your 'greatest achievement' accomplished and behind you, as well as the concept of 'being' a genius vs. 'having' genius.
Question of The Day:
What are you going to do OUTSIDE this week?
I liked all this cool stuff on my Sunday of thesis writing. I liked the article about kelp for biofuel the best though. I have a friend who is doing her MS work looking at kelp sap and seeing if she can detect heavy metal pollution in the sap. Super cool. I wonder if we would all care about ocean pollution more if we were using the natural resources therein to run our cars etc. I'm not really sure, considering we are already overfishing so many species, and that is a major natural resource for us (food) already. Eh. Either way, go alternative energy!
ReplyDeleteI'm worried as well about too much exploitation of our marine resources, but am still excited about the possibilities! Let me know what your friend finds out about the sap!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2012/radioactive-iodine-from-fukushima-in-california-kelp
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I'll have to include this in next Sunday's post as well!
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