Top Ten Places Affected by Climate Change

“People who talk about the effects of global warming tend to use the future tense, as if the damage had yet to occur. If only. Even though the earth is just beginning to heat up, it’s already showing the strain.
In Darfur, a decades-long drought — triggered by a warming southern Atlantic — led to a [...]

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An extension of “Snowflake” Bentley’s Studies

“One hundred twenty-five years ago, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took the first microphotographs of snow; 46 years later he died of pneumonia contracted while photographing snowflakes in his barn. Today, CalTech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht is carrying Bentley’s work into the 21st century — and posting the findings online.
Libbrecht’s gallery includes a remarkably beautiful photograph of the [...]

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2008 Micro-Photography Winners

Science and Art merge in this magnificent medium…enjoy the wonder of micro-photography….
“Reality’s building blocks are too tiny to see, so modern scientists pursue the invisible. The Nikon Small World Competition — which celebrates the most beautiful and mesmerizing microphotography — allows the rest of us to look on in wonder.
This year, the grand prize went [...]

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DOCUMENTARY: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

“Mark Oliver Everett is a bona fide rock star and the son of a physicist, Hugh Everett III, who was also father to the theory of multiple worlds. The scientist died when the son was 19; for Mark (who flunked out of ninth-grade algebra), Hugh Everett became even more of a mystery than the formulas [...]

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Space Photos…Daily

“Sooner or later, the universe comes down to this: We, the people, don’t matter that much. Our planet is a speck of dust, orbiting a middling star, in an out-of-the-way corner of a totally minor solar system. And in the greatest scheme of things, there’s not a whole lot any one of us can do [...]

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Week Long Bug Unit

This summer, “Bugs and Insects” are the themes in the libraries across Kansas. I decided that we would use this opportunity to study them throughout the summer months – – and I will try to keep up with what I do so that you may use whatever resources are listed for your own Thematic Unit. [...]

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Science: Photos of Subjects not seen by the Naked Eye

“Plato insisted that the most beautiful things were invisible — that perfect forms are too perfect to see. Well, Plato would have loved the Wellcome Image competition, which limits itself tophotographs of subjects that can’t be seen by the naked eye.
This year’s winners are an eclectic bunch: Here’s a carpet of concave blood cells. There’s [...]

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Meme: “Great Outdoors as a Classroom”

No to long ago, I noticed that we had a bird nest on one of the pillars on our front porch.  I couldn’t see just by standing on a step-stool – – so I got my camera and took some photos.  The slideshow photos document the couple times that I “invaded” their space.  The shots [...]

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Science Experiment: Cell Phone Popcorn

Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes
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Amazing INTERACTIVE Map of the Stars

“Teleportation and traveling at hyperspeed would be fabulous, but even when we were children, such science-fiction staples struck us as probably, well, impossible. Still, we always imagined that someday we really could have the galactic maps that pop up at the touch of a button in shows like Star Trek. And now, thanks to the [...]

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