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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal
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comic  history  oatmeal  science  Tesla  humor  culture  Edison 
14 days ago by earth2marsh
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
Australia  insects  ecology  biology  amazing  science  inspiration  human  story 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
The Scale of the Universe 2
a flash-based visualization like the powers of 10
scale  awesome  astronomy  science  space  powers 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great For Creativity | Wired Science | Wired.com
sleep  study  science  insight  creativity  cognition  brain 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong | GeekDad | Wired.com
"But here’s the cool part: If you study, wait, and then study again, the longer the wait, the more you’ll have learned after this second study session. Bjork explains it this way: “When we access things from our memory, we do more than reveal it’s there. It’s not like a playback. What we retrieve becomes more retrievable in the future. Provided the retrieval succeeds, the more difficult and involved the retrieval, the more beneficial it is.”"

"Forget about forgetting, said Bjork. People tend to think that learning is building up something in your memory and that forgetting is losing the things you built. But in some respects the opposite is true."
learning  memory  science  education  brain  cognition  studying 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
excites | Graphic Designer | Simon C Page
via jess
design  examples  inspiration  science  posters  via:jess 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates « Gravity and Levity
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year?  Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100?  1 in 10,000?  Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now.

This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz in 1825 and is now called the “Gompertz Law of human mortality.”  Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years.  For me, a 25-year-old American, the probability of dying during the next year is a fairly miniscule 0.03% — about 1 in 3,000.  When I’m 33 it will be about 1 in 1,500, when I’m 42 it will be about 1 in 750, and so on.  By the time I reach age 100 (and I do plan on it) the probability of living to 101 will only be about 50%.  This is seriously fast growth — my mortality rate is increasing exponentially with age.
biology  health  mortality  science  statistics 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
Project Euler
"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is to provide a platform for the inquiring mind to delve into unfamiliar areas and learn new concepts in a fun and recreational context."
computerscience  science  computer  computer  science  problems  algorithms  education  learning  puzzles  math  programming  from delicious
january 2012 by earth2marsh
Find the Best Checkout Line - WSJ.com
psychology  queueing  retail  lines  science  waiting  ux  from delicious
december 2011 by earth2marsh
Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine
"For me, it was a momentous occasion. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange. Here is someone who, even if she grows to one hundred pounds and stretches more than eight feet long, could still squeeze her boneless body through an opening the size of an orange; an animal whose eight arms are covered with thousands of suckers that taste as well as feel; a mollusk with a beak like a parrot and venom like a snake and a tongue covered with teeth; a creature who can shape-shift, change color, and squirt ink. But most intriguing of all, recent research indicates that octopuses are remarkably intelligent."
biology  octopus  science  animals  psychology  intelligence  ocean  marine  cognition  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
- Simple Harmonic (and non-harmonic) Motion § Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
It's like seeing a cross section in time of two superimposed waves
science  physics  video  pendulum  math  youtube  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
The study of science is hard
The excitement quickly fades as students brush up against the reality of what David E. Goldberg, an emeritus engineering professor, calls “the math-science death march.” Freshmen in college wade through a blizzard of calculus, physics and chemistry in lecture halls with hundreds of other students. And then many wash out.

Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have the strongest SAT scores and high school science preparation, are included, according to new data from the University of California at Los Angeles. That is twice the combined attrition rate of all other majors.

Could it be that too many people like being the smartest one in the room?  Or is it some other explanation?:

“But if you take two students who have the same high school grade-point average and SAT scores, and you put one in a highly selective school like Berkeley and the other in a school with lower average scores like Cal State, that Berkeley student is at least 13 percent less likely than the one at Cal State to finish a STEM degree.”

Here is the story, here is Alex’s earlier post.  Science itself is even harder.
Education  Science  from google
november 2011 by earth2marsh
[from arosner] TRAFFIC WAVE EXPERIMENTS
traffic  billbeaty  psychology  science  cars  physics  from google
september 2011 by earth2marsh
[from handcoding] Facts Don’t Persuade Climate Skeptics–So What Does? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
"Presenting an unequivocal graph was powerful enough to change people’s views, even as presenting technical text (at least in the rising temperatures case) was not."
science  from google
september 2011 by earth2marsh
The Importance of Selection Effects
Data_Source  Economics  Science  from google
september 2011 by earth2marsh
Freeman Dyson - Wikiquote
"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."
quotes  freeman_dyson  dyson  technology  science  makers  building  tools  from delicious
september 2011 by earth2marsh
[from SaAsSagA] High fliers: 5 great paper airplane designs | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games
science  airplanes  aeronautics  from google
august 2011 by earth2marsh
[from arosner] finding baby sciences and new moons (17 Mar., 2011, at Interconnected)
science  mattwebb  history  future  from google
july 2011 by earth2marsh
ongoing by Tim Bray · UCI
"There are only two hard things in Com­puter Sci­ence: cache in­val­i­da­tion and nam­ing things." Phil Karlton
quotes  computer  science  caching  naming  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker
"But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology. In the field of medicine, the phenomenon seems extremely widespread, affecting not only antipsychotics but also therapies ranging from cardiac stents to Vitamin E and antidepressants: Davis has a forthcoming analysis demonstrating that the efficacy of antidepressants has gone down as much as threefold in recent decades.<br />
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science  reproducability  method  scientific  new_yorker  article  studies  medicine  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
Computer Science Unplugged |
"CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.<br />
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The activities introduce students to underlying concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers.<br />
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CS Unplugged is suitable for people of all ages, from elementary school to seniors, and from many countries and backgrounds. Unplugged has been used around the world for over fifteen years, in classrooms, science centers, homes, and even for holiday events in a park!"
reference  programming  science  education  computers  computer  activities  learning  kids  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment
vizualization  science  physics  video  youtube  quantum  experiment  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2
science  physics  video  to_watch  dimensions  youtube  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
Men’s Journal » The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See » Print
RT : “Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.” Maybe my f ...
technology  science  article  audio  echolocation  blindness  inspiration  from twitter
may 2011 by earth2marsh
YouTube - Mandelbrot Set
mandelbrot  fractals  videos  video  fractal  mathematics  music  science 
october 2010 by earth2marsh
Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat | Video on TED.com
"Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love –- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse."
!to_watch  anthropology  attraction  brain  ted  video  science  relationships  psychology  love  sex 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
Who's the Scientist? Drawings of Scientists
"Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. "
academia  art  children  description  descriptions  drawing  education  experiment  gender  kids  science  perception  scientists  sociology 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
Make: Online : Origami hang gliders, hope for humanity
origami "hang glider" that you can push on a wave of air. totally, totally, awesome.
origami  science  kids  education  inspiration  glider  hang  paper  papercraft  wave  air 
june 2010 by earth2marsh
Chromoscope: View the Universe in Different Wavelengths
"Ever wanted X-ray specs or super-human vision? Chromoscope lets you explore our Galaxy (the Milky Way) and the distant Universe in a range of wavelengths from X-rays to the longest radio waves."
via:saassaga  space  astronomy  spectrum  wavelength  vizualization  photo  science  radio  universe  light  awesome  images  astrophysics 
december 2009 by earth2marsh
Radiolab: Parasites
In this hour of Radiolab, we explore nature’s moochers – the good, the bad, and the hideous. We have stories of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe). Could parasites be the shadowy hands that pull the strings of life?
hugh:podcast  mp3  podcast  audio  parasites  science  npr 
october 2009 by earth2marsh
Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research
Gates bought the rights to Feynman's lectures and put them up here.
feynman  science  videos  video  tutorial  physics 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit
"computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. […] describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help."
science  collaboration  folding  chemistry  proteins  research  puzzle  crowdsourcing  biology  game  education  software  puzzles 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Inside the baby mind - The Boston Globe
""We sometimes say that adults are better at paying attention than children," writes Gopnik. "But really we mean just the opposite. Adults are better at not paying attention. They're better at screening out everything else and restricting their consciousness to a single focus." […] While this less focused form of attention makes it more difficult to stay on task - preschoolers are easily distracted - it also comes with certain advantages. In many circumstances, the lantern mode of attention can actually lead to improvements in memory, especially when it comes to recalling information that seemed incidental at the time."
cognition  brain  development  learning  psychology  neuroscience  science  education  children  kids  parenting  creativity 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
"Behind the counter of an abandoned McDonalds lie 48,000 lbs of 70mm tape the only copy of extremely high-resolution images of the moon. Forty years ago, unmanned lunar orbiters circled the moon taking extremely high-res photos of the surface to plan landing spots for Apollo 11 onward... In this McDonalds, the only copy of that data is about to be resurrected. These tapes were recorded 40 years ago as part of the Apollo program to map the lunar surface to plan landing spots for Apollo 11 onward. They have never been seen by the public because at the time, they were classified as they reveal the extreme precision of our spy satellites. Instead, all we have ever seen are the grainy photo-of-a-photo images that were released to the public. "
moon  data  recovery  history  images  science 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Complexity science map
infographic of how the fields interrelate
science  visualization  history  map  chart  complexity 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
YouTube - Boom De Ya Da!
discovery channel viral campaign. nicely done vid.
video  commercial  discovery  science  geek  love  boom 
february 2009 by earth2marsh
How to move a boat without an engine, paddles or sails | NetworkWorld.com Community
"a propulsion system that uses the natural surface tension that is present on the water's surface and an electric pulse to move the boat or robot, researchers said. The Pitt system has no moving parts and the low-energy electrode that emits the pulse could be powered by batteries, radio waves, or solar power, researchers said in a statement. The system bio-mimics the propelling skill of some insects that float on the water and move by leaning one way or the other."
via:gnat  science  invention  robots  transportation  surface  tension  water  propulsion 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
"director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram." The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level. ... The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true."
quantum  cosmology  universe  gravity  theory  science  physics  space  time  hologram 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Boston.com - Ideas - Globe
"DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works."
sensory  perception  mind  hacks  hack  brain  senses  hallucination  science  illusion 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Toys from Trash
"the recycling, reuse and reppropriation of common household goods, trash and miscellany into functional and/or amusing items is something Cool Tools readers know well. No matter where you fall on the spectrum of tinkerers, whether you have children or not, it's near impossible to visit Arvind Gupta's Toys From Trash without wanting to attempt at least one of his many projects."
toys  projects  DIY  science  children  kids  crafts  make  recycle  recycling  craft  art  howto 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
(on competition and more) Surprising insights from the social sciences - The Boston Globe
"The more people you're competing against, it turns out, the less motivated and competitive you are. Psychologists observed this pattern across several different situations. Students taking standardized tests in more crowded venues got lower scores. Students asked to complete a short general-knowledge test as fast as possible to win a prize if they were in the fastest 20 percent completed it faster if they were told that they were competing against 10 people rather than 100. Students asked how fast they would run in a race for a $1,000 prize if they finished in the top 10 percent said they would run faster in a race against 50 people rather than 500. Similarly, students contemplating a job interview or Facebook-friending contest said they would be less competitive if they expected more competitors - even if "winning" only required finishing in the top 20 percent. The authors conclude that competitiveness was curtailed because the larger the group, the more difficult it is to compare"
competition  psychology  science 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
A Critical Choice Regarding Innovation - O'Reilly Radar
""Ford was really saying ... breakthrough innovations don't come from market research ... [but] from the singular vision of an inventor pursuing his or her own passion, cutting a Gordian knot that others simply accept as "the way things are." ... some truly amazing innovation [is] happening on the net, in alternative energy, & in life sciences ... many of those innovations will come from harnessing the collective intelligence of all those people ... But it won't just be to give them what they want; it will be to put them to work in new ways, getting them to contribute ... Breakthroughs ... driven by the data we all contribute; similar effects will soon be felt in personalized medicine, robotics ... Joseph Campbell said that the Knights of the Round Table were the archetypal myth of Western civilization, the idea that each of us, alone, must go off into the deepest, darkest part of the forest, populated by monsters, on a quest to make the world a better place." summary by preoccupations
via:preoccupations  innovation  science  future  commentary  entrepreneurship  invention  oreilly 
november 2008 by earth2marsh
When Google Scholar's Integration with Google Search is Useful
"If you ever find an interesting academic paper in Google's search results ...and when you click on the result, the page says that you need a subscription... go back and click on "All n versions", below the search snippet, to find other versions of the paper from Google Scholar. If you're lucky, you'll find the paper in the HTML, PDF or PostScript format."
search  science  papers  research  tips  Google:Scholar  walledgarden  subscription  circumvent 
november 2008 by earth2marsh
Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth--At a Price: Scientific American
a brief survey of some geoengineering proposals to combat global warming. some of them are worthy of scifi
geoengineering  climate_change  global_warming  environment  science  engineering 
october 2008 by earth2marsh
Did evolution come before life? - life - 15 September 2008 - New Scientist
Such a system, full of novel, interacting molecules, would be the ideal milieu to generate a molecule with attributes that would favour the assembly of copies of itself. Nowak's prebiotic selection could then act to refine this ability by ensuring that better replicators become more common. At some point, Nowak's model predicts, the best replicator may get fast and accurate enough to dominate the population, sucking up all the resources and driving all the other prebiotic sequences extinct. This is the threshold of life.
evolution  science  research  biology  proteins 
september 2008 by earth2marsh
Unobtainium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a humorous neologism that refers to any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. also used for materials that are practical and really exist, but are difficult to get.
vocabulary  words  via:preoccupations  science  materials 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
PigeonBlog
"enlists homing pigeons to participate in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public. Pigeons are equipped with custom-built miniature air pollution sensing devices enabled to send the collected localized information to an online server without delay. Pollution levels are visualized and plotted in real-time over Google’s mapping environment, thus allowing immediate access to the collected information to anyone with connection to the Internet."
via:kevan  science  research  maps  mapping  gps  technology  animals  birds  pollution  pigeons 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart | LiveScience
"In most animals, the gut needs a lot of energy to grind out nourishment from food sources. But cooking, by breaking down fibers and making nutrients more readily available, is a way of processing food outside the body. Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, Khaitovich explained, thereby freeing up calories for our brains. "Instead of growing even larger (which would have made birth even more problematic), the human brain most likely used the additional calories to grease the wheels of its internal functioning."
neuroscience  psychology  research  science  human  history  evolution  brain  thinking  cognition 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Marginal Revolution: The nature of ability bias
"we find it easier to consider the favourable evidence for a single person than we do for a whole group. Consistent with this is the finding that people tend to be biased when comparing any single individual, not just themselves, against a group of others
bias  psychology  science  ability  rating 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Tim Oren's Due Diligence: Burke's Law of Metadynamics - "Systems dump excess energy in the form of structure."
a system operating in surplus won't stay so, but instead will act to build up its own structure at the expense of the surplus. Looked at the right way, it's a nutshell explanation for the existence of life - an eruption of structure in response to excess
organization  energy  philosophy  science  systems  structure  evolution  life 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth  | Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti
The images were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful.
wallpaper  pictures  photos  space  satellite  science  visualization  photography  lsi 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Materials science | Rags to riches | Economist.com
Ragworm jaws are made of a mixture of protein and zinc ions. The consequence is that a material composed of histidine-rich proteins and zinc is extremely strong. But, lacking the dense calcium salts of mineralised biological structures, it is also light
science  materials  worms  biology  mineralization 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Prediction and Invention: Object-oriented vs. functional Permalink
a society's educational systems should act like a thermostat, and do the opposite of what the society is doing. So if the society is hidebound and rooted in the past, then the university should be unconventional and pushing for change, if the society is t
education  Science 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
Sixteen teens participated in this ground-breaking initiative that uses the virtual world of Second Life to educate them about Tanzanian culture and politics, scientific research and methodology.
science  secondlife  virtualworlds  elearning  international  culture  archaeology 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
FOXNews.com - Northrop Grumman to Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
contract to develop intelligent binoculars that would help soldiers detect threats from miles away. The defense contractor says electrodes placed on the scalp will record the user's electrical brain activity. Responses will train the system over time to r
brain  engineering  science  technology  vision  binoculars 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Overcoming Bias
research has changed science's picture of how we succeed or fail to seek the truth. The heuristics and biases program, in cognitive psychology, has exposed dozens of major flaws in human reasoning.
bias  science  economics  psychology 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Science cafes
Science cafés involve a lively conversation with a scientist about current science topics. They are open to everyone, and take place in casual settings like pubs and coffeehouses.
science  informal  event  meeting  public  community 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Design and the Elastic Mind
explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspi
design  art  moma  visualization  interface  flash  culture  exhibit  science  scale  elasticity 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity
collection of perspectives on the approaching singularity
singularity  science  ai  technology  future  futurism 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Interesting Time Travel Paradox - Suprbay Forum
Perhaps the craziest of the time travel paradoxes was cooked up by Robert Heinlein in his classic short story "All You Zombies."
timetravel  paradox  science  fiction  sci-fi  time  travel 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
behind their nostrils. They had to be for breathing, didn’t they? He tried to come up with an alternate hypothesis, and couldn’t—but then he couldn’t come up with a way to confirm his own hunch, eithe
innovation  gladwell  science  creativity  technology  newyorker  ideas  brainstorming  genius  invention  inventions 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Monty Hall Meets Cognitive Dissonance - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
every study which has shown “spreading” essentially makes a Monty-Hall-like error, by neglecting the fact that people’s choices aren’t random; that in fact their choices teach you something.
statistics  economics  psychology  cognition  brain  experiments  Science  math  research  choice  ranking  preferences  rational 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
Technology Review: 10 Emerging Technologies 2008
"presents our list of the 10 technologies that we think are most likely to change the way we live."
technology  trends  innovation  science  2008  interesting 
march 2008 by earth2marsh
Total human impact on oceans mapped for the first time | Science | guardian.co.uk
To make the map, scientists compiled global data on the impacts of 17 human activities including fishing, coastal development, fertiliser runoff and pollution from shipping traffic.
climate_change  environment  pollution  science  water  oceans  climate  Visualization  map 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
Hmmm.... Krulwich on Science >> NPR : Podcast Directory
Science Correspondent Robert Krulwich demystifies what's dense and difficult -- even if you feel lost when it comes to science
audio  NPR  podcast  Science  !subscribed 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
Circle of Life | Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
"circle of life" view of all life based on DNA (actually rRNA) sequences. It retains some characteristics of the tree, but bent around into a circle so that it has no beginning, no end
biology  evolution  maps  network  Visualization  DNA  life  science 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
Visualization
Visualizing the Earth, its processes, and its evolution through time is a fundamental aspect of geoscience. The use of visualizations - diagrams, images, animations, maps, and more - is an essential tool in helping students to visualize the Earth and its
science  visualization  Geology  education  resources  interactive  lsi  resource  teacher 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners
it's possible that the more words tots hear, and the more information available for any individual word, the better their brains can begin simultaneously ruling out and putting together word-object pairings, thus learning what's what.
language  learning  psychology  Linguistics  datamining  science  children  cognition  aquisition 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
Welcome to ARKive - Images of life on Earth
apparently they've partnered with EoL
animals  science  images  Extinction  endangered  naturalhistory  archive  photos 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places: Scientific American
Where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects
Pollution  environment  ethics  Science  lsi 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Scientific American: Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement
males are much more variable in their mathematical ability, meaning that females of any age are more clustered toward the center of the distribution of skills and males are spread out toward the ends
research  science  gender  women  math  men  study  article 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
The Year's 10 Craziest Ways to Hack the Earth
Scientists have come up with extreme -- some might say crazy -- schemes to counteract global warming.
environment  science  green  engineering  future  design  hack  hacks  technology 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
The World Question Center 2008
The Edge question for 2007 WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?
science  philosophy  ideas  thinking  2007  change 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Wired Science . Flotsam Found | PBS
By studying the movement of ocean flotsam—in particular, the movement of 29,000 bathtub toys that were lost from a cargo ship in 1992—retired oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer has uncovered quite a bit about our ocean's currents and the places they carr
video  nature  analysis  green  science  climate_change  recycle  lsi  environment  garbage  plastic 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
a weekly Podcast talkshow produced by the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) : discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial cl
podcast  science  skepticism  skeptic  podcasts  pseudoscience 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Physics for future Presidents
What every world leader needs to know (also known as PffP, Physics C10, and L&S C70V) Berkeley Professor of Physics
physics  science  education  lectures  reference  podcast  mp3 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
After Our Time
a weblog about the BBC Radio 4 programme 'In Our Time', which explores the history of ideas.
bbc  radio  inourtime  blog  culture  science 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
EdGCM: Climate Modeling for Research and Education - Home
a research-quality global climate model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that runs on desktop computers. Anyone can explore the subject of climate change using the same methods and tools that scientists employ.
climate_change  earth  freeware  education  globalwarming  interactive  model  modeling  environment  lsi  resource  simulation  Science  software  weather 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
11 phenomenal images of earth « deputydog
11 incredible photos taken from space which illustrate just a few of earth’s fascinating geographical features and nature’s frightening unpredictability.
earth  photos  space  science  geography  Nature  aerial  images  eclipse 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
YouTube - The Matrix Vs. Carl Sagan
Uncanny mashup of Carl Sagan as Agent Smith
video  science  humour  humor  matrix  youtube  sagan  carlsagan 
october 2007 by earth2marsh
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