It’s been awhile since i have posted on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), but it’s great to see that the laptops are making a big difference in schooling in countries around the world, like you will see in the video below, children in Afghanistan now have access to a library of information on many subjects which they have free access to..
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This is an amazing video of how small and large we are in life, as it zooms out to 100million light years from earth and then back in to 10 to -13 meters, it gives you a much better perception on things..
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Chili peppers can add a little spice to your dish, but where does that heat come from? As ScienCentral News reports, it’s a rare case where we can be thankful for bugs and a fungus..
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A dhow is a traditional sailing vessel with one or more lateen sails. It’s primarily used along the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India, and East Africa. Watch the video below on the Dhow in Zanzibar, some made without nails and can withstand the force of monsoon winds..
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This is from the National Geographic’s show ‘World’s Toughest Fixes’, as engineers must replace a rotor in a nuclear plant that has powered 1,000,000 homes for five years, the new rotor will boost its energy-producing capacity of the plant…
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This is a awesome short cartoon with an interesting view on humans and how we treat our earth..
Official Website: www.aniboom.com
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Where do old cell phones and mobile devices go when you recycle them? Why should you take those phones out of your sock drawer and take them back? What toxics are in a typical cell phone? How much gold and silver is in a cell phone? How do I recycle my cell phones and mobile devices? Watch the video below to learn the answers to these questions..
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This video is part of INFORM’s Secret Life Series, which explores the environmental effects of everyday consumer items. The Secret Life of Paper details the environmental impact of the paper industry and suggests solutions to our paper consumption problem..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
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“Way too many people worry about huge scores and making BIG THINGS HAPPEN, well that is why they don’t make anything happen, watch this and get it!” – Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary is a very inspirational person and this is one of my favorite videos from him..
Official Website: www.garyvaynerchuk.com
Video Link: www.garyvaynerchuk.com/better-than-zero
World Record cardstacker Bryan Berg has recreated the Bejing Olympic Village using 140,000 playing cards. As of October 2007 Berg says he has broken Guinness World Records seven or eight times. He first broke the world record for tallest house of cards in 1992 at the age of seventeen, with a tower 14 feet, 6 inches tall (4.67 meters)…
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This is a great way to learn about the CERN project, and no better way of explaining it except through song..
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Scientists are one step closer to knowing the true colors of some dinosaurs. Yale researchers found a clue to colors in bird feather fossils. This ScienCentral video explains..
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A must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Sir Ken Robinson is author of “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative,” and a leading expert on innovation in education and business. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)..
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With 90km of steel and 22,000 beams covered with 100,000 square meters of plastic, this is not your ordinary swimming complex..
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The double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics is an experiment that demonstrates the inseparability of the wave and particle natures of light and other quantum particles. Watch the video below to understand the complexity scientists are working with in quantum physics..
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Explore how half of Earth’s water originated from the planet’s inception and how the other half was deposited by comets..
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When anthropologists first overflew the area, they saw women and children in the open and no one appeared to be painted. It was only when the plane returned a few hours later that they saw these individuals covered head-to-toe in red. Tribes in the Amazon paint themselves for all kinds of different reasons, one of which includes when they feel threatened or are aggressive. Other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru and populations are being decimated..
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Texas based KumoTek announces the KumoTek KT-X bipedal humanoid robot developed in cooperation with Japanese Vstone. KumoTek has built an entire education system around their robots called Robot P.E.T.S. (Robots Promoting Education Through Science), which is designed to pull kids away from video games and launch them into the world of robotics science and mechanical engineering..
KT-X Lite: 13 motors – $990 USD.
KT-X: 17 motors – $1,290 USD.
KT-X Gladiator: 20 motors – $1,490 USD (rotating hips and torso).
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This is a time lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam in the United Sates on 6 May 2007. In the earth’s atmosphere, gravity waves are important for transferring momentum from the troposphere to the mesosphere..
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This video about “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” is from a book by Rob Bryanton. The video explains 10 dimensions using simple drawings to help you understand..
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Wally Wallington is a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction which has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity, Wally also believes he has the technique to build pyramids..
Official Website: www.theforgottentechnology.com
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Xin Sarith Azuma Phan Wuku is making his way to the big time, especially after his youtube video ‘Urban Ninja’ became a hit with over 20million views, he’s now created a team called EMC (Evolved Mokey Combat), which is a team of martial artists that train in a very unque style, its a hybrid system consisting of many different disciplines such as Chinese Gung-Fu, Kick Boxing, Tae Kwon Do and Acrobatics..
Official Website: www.originalxin.com
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For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup..
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In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current US political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future..
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Ok its time for another awesome video from the Common Craft Show. In this video Wikis are explained in how we use them, how they work and why they are useful in todays world, enjoy the video..
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Scientists may still not have a handle on where all that carbon dioxide ends up in the atmosphere, but they and policy analysts do at least know which countries those emissions originate from..
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding, she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another..
Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail has written a great article about his new favorite topic Free! Chris can definitely see where the future of tech is going, and how it is going to change how we live, and hopefully change society’s around the world for the better. This is a great and very interesting read, also there is a video of Chris explaining the theory of free. Im looking forward to his book on the topic in 2009..
Article Link: www.wired.com
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Brainiac is a British science show, it centralises along the three main cores of science for the British education including chemistry, physics and biology. With this experiment they have used a camera which can take 4000 images a second to show how the human hand reacts in a karate chop..
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“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“Intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”..
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Randy Pausch delivered his Last Public Lecture, entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ at CMU on September 18, 2007.
This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical final talk, i.e. what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?..
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Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean’s hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens of millions of microbes in a single drop of sea water.) After touching on the potential of environmental genomics to monitor the safety of air, water and offshore drilling, Venter ends with his vision for engineered species that can replace the petrochemical industry by creating clean energy..
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Video Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/6
Three major population genetics studies have provided the firmest evidence yet of humanity’s ancestral migration out of Africa. Their findings support the widely accepted hypothesis that humanity’s ancestors traveled from East Africa through Central Asia and then to the rest of the world. More importantly, they point the way towards fine-grained future studies of population variation, allowing people to pinpoint their own ancestral wanderings and scientists to focus on genomic regions that have experienced intensive historical pressure..
Article Link: www.wired.com
This is an amazing project, it will give everyone access to the worlds knowledge on the 1.8 million species currently known, and provide the ability for people to help grow the information as there are millions more unknown to us. This is going to be the best school resource ever! When will we be able to access it? Scanning and digitization of the biodiversity literature is now underway in London, Boston, and Washington DC. Expect to have actual authenticated species pages available by mid 2008. This site is going to be sooo sweet..
Official Website Link: www.eol.org
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As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; yet we’re still steadily destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere. Playtime 22:35min..
Official Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/83
