Archive for March 2008
The U.S. of A: Which statistic is scarier?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 26, 2008
- In: America | finglas | one in nine | riots | sociology
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Just over one per cent (2.3 million people) of the population of America is in jail at the moment. One in 15 adult black men is incarcerated; this becomes one in nine black men aged between 20 to 34. In case you missed that: ONE BLACK MALE IN EVERY NINE AGED BETWEEN 20 AND 34 IS CURRENTLY IN JAIL. America [...]
Who needs school anyway?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 26, 2008
Just read about these boys on Damien Mulley’s blog John Collision is in fifth year in Castletroy College in Limerick. During transition year (and into his holidays) he and his brother Patrick set up an IT company. They later merged with two similar-minded colleagues from the UK. Their company – Auctomatic – was recently acquired “in [...]
Planet-scicast video competition
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 26, 2008
- In: competition | planet scicast | video
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The Institute of Physics used to run “Paperclip Physics”; a competition where students had five minutes to present/teach a given topic in an interesting fashion. This year they have replaced this competition with “Planet-Scicast”, where students have to put together a two and a half minute video-clip on any aspect of Science. It’s a wonderful [...]
Deadliest Catch
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 26, 2008
My job appears to be rather mundane; three minutes into watching this clip I began to feel decidely queasy. I can’t believe they don’t wear some kinds of safety harness
Leidenfrost Effect revisited
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 25, 2008
I mentioned The Leidenfrost Effect in a previous post I tried it recently and couldn’t believe that it worked every time. Really simple but cool demo. A few more very impressive videos on this effect here
Congratulations Michael
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 25, 2008
- In: iop | Michael Grehan
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I mentioned Michael Grehan in a previous post. Michael teaches Science and Physics in Belvedere College, Dublin. He has just received an IOP (Institute on Physics) Phyics Teacher award. These are awarded every year to teachers in Great Britain and Ireland, but there’s not necessarily an Irish recepient every year. Very well deserved. Congratulations Michael. What are you going to do [...]
Educational Resources from abroad
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 18, 2008
One of the few advantages of the downturn in the US economy is the favourable exchange rate. The most impressive Science Shop I have come across is teachersource.com from the good ol’ U S of A. I must have paid the guts of €40 for the Hyman Fire Piston from TechnologySupplies.co.uk from England, which admittedlyis also [...]
B(l)ogs in the classroom
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 18, 2008
Stumbled across this today while browsing through a page on the Department of Education’s website. I was really impressed that the Department was on the ball here; classroom blogs – Absolutely, way to go. It would appear I misread. It is so true what Francis Bacon said all those years ago: “For what a man would like [...]
Stunning pics from NASA
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 10, 2008
Just seen these pictures from the recent Endeavour shuttle mission. The photos speak for themselves. The file sizes are too large to upload here and they may the page may take a little while to load, so be patient; it’s worth it ‘Course it could it just all be a hoax. You can do some pretty [...]
What a family. What a teacher.
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 10, 2008
- In: first place | iop | leaving cert physics | ucc
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Via the Science.ie newsletter Photo taken from here, permission pending Antoinette O’Connor from Cork has won a medal for achieving first place in the country in Leaving Certificate Physics, awarded by Institute of Physics. Nothing strange so far, after all someone has to come first, don’t they? There’s more: Her sister Martha O’Connor won the [...]
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