Archive for August 2008
Hiking in Scotland
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 27, 2008
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My colleague Mark Campion organised a hiking trip to Scotland for the last few days of the holidays for 15 students plus 5 teachers. Stunning scenery and great walks for four days. Torrential downpours on day 5. Day 5 was the best. Click on the flick icon on the right (scroll down to find it) [...]
The Periodic Table of Videos
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 26, 2008
- In: Education | Science | videos | youtube
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Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century – but this modern version has a short video about each one. In the short time since launching this site, our videos have been watched more than 1.8 million times. But we’re not finished yet. We’ve started updating all the videos with new [...]
Texas School district to let teachers carry guns; it’s just common sense
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 17, 2008
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A Texas school is to allow vetted teachers to carry handguns into school for the first time starting next term. District superintendent David Thweatt: We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, ‘What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?” he said. “It’s just [...]
Electrostatic Spray Paint video
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 16, 2008
Hammerite have posted a nice video of their electrostatic spray pain-gun in action. No contact with the metal being painted is necessary, and it even paints around the back. Nice one. Who would have thought physics was connected with the real world?
Almost half of the world’s primate species are in danger of extinction
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 15, 2008
- In: Education | evolution | Extinction | primates
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Mankind’s closest relatives – the world’s monkeys, apes and other primates – are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some being literally eaten to extinction. Source: IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (see article here) And we’re supposed to be the intelligent ones.
Engines ready for another year
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 14, 2008
- In: Education | sensors | youtube
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The bumph from the school arrived today containing school calender, results, agenda for staff-meeting etc, but all I wanted to see was whether or not I was teaching second years next year. Up until now we taught science on a rota system at Junior Cert level. All the students in the year are split into [...]
The mystery of magnetism
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 1, 2008
Floating rings used to demonstrate magnetic repulsion Sometimes the most basic question can be the hardest to answer. “How do magnets work?” is one such question. If you’re a teacher like me you’ll probably end up using fancy terms like “North and South Poles” and “Opposite Poles Attract”, and may even go on to demonstrate [...]
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