Archive for February 2008
Fun with soda cans
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 7, 2008
- In: demonstrations | Physics | sodacans
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I did a series of demonstrations yesterday involving soda cans and stuck the video of it on youtube. I wanted it to be just one video but it went well over ten minutes (15 to be precise) so I had to split it in two. It was fun though. One of the problems with this sort of [...]
St Columba’s College: Nanotechnology project
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 6, 2008
- In: CESI | nanotechnology | SCC | transition year
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I was browsing the award-winning St. Colomba’s College English Department blog (see blogroll on the right) and came across the school’s excellent Science Site. This in turn led to a link to their Transition Year Nanotechnology competition project, which consisted of a fictional website of a hospital set in 2027, detailing the role of nanotechnology [...]
Battle at Kruger
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 6, 2008
- In: battle at kruger | nature | timefiller | youtube
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Watch as a baby buffalo is caught in the jaws of four lions, then acts as the rope in a tug of war between the lions and some crocs, and finally gets rescued by her extended family. Simply amazing Was I the only one rooting for the lions? I say that a baby lion is [...]
The Counter-Intuitive Nature of Physics
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 6, 2008
Okay, here’s the deal. You’re in a car going forward at 100 km/hr. You’re finished with your (glass) bottle of lucozade and naturally you just want to get rid of it by throwing it out the window. But you’re not a complete muppet; you would prefer if the bottle didn’t actully break upon impact. So [...]
An alternative view of Science – funny ‘cos it’s true’!
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 1, 2008
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