Archive for September 2008
So who was the first man in space?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 24, 2008
- In: Education | Physics | space | Uncategorized | youtube
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Do you hate correcting experiment-copies as much as me?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
Because I hate it. I mean really, really hate it. So much so that I haven’t corrected a (leaving-cert) copy in years. I justify this (to myself) on the basis that I spend more than enough time in the lab on technician duty. I’m generally in the lab by 7:15 and spend most breaks there [...]
Ideas for Young Scientist competition
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
- In: competition | Education | scifest | young scientist
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I put together a list of (124) possible Young Scientist projects for my second-year class. Most of them are taken from previous years and hopefully it will give them some ideas. Closing date is October so you need to get cracking. You don’t need to have the project finished by then, but you will need [...]
Our marvellous oceans
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
I posted previously about Robert Ballard on TED. Exploring the worlds’ hidden oceans David Gallo is equally enthuasiastic and just as enthralling. From the TED website: David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square’s worth of neon light displays from fish who [...]
What CERN doesn’t want you to know . . .
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
Click on the picture to see what they’re all so worried about. In case you were wondering: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
New clips on youtube
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 10, 2008
- In: demonstrations | Education | Physics | youtube
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I posted very few videos on youtube last year, and am determined to rectify that this year, and in particular to put up some clips of Junior Cert classes. Here are a couple on spherical mirrors: The mirrors in this next one were purchased from educationalinnovations for about €20. They have a larger, 22 inch [...]
Questioning Science Education
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 6, 2008
- In: Education | misconceptions | mosconceptions | Physics | Science | youtube
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Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge — and specifically, what we don’t know about science that we might think we do. So goes the blurb for the one of the latest talks on TED. Drori asks [...]
Monthy Python does density
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 3, 2008
2:28 in: Sir Pedivere: What also floats in water? Peasant 1: Very small rocks? King Arthur: A duck. Sir Pedivere: Exactly, so logically, if . . .? Peasant 2: she weighs the same as a duck, she’s . . . make of wood. Sir Pedivere: And therefore? All: a witch! It somehow seems all too [...]
Particle Physics and the LHC: some useful resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 3, 2008
- In: Education | Physics | Science
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The Large Hardon Collider is due to be turned on this day next week (Wednesday, 10th of September), so it’s not a bad time to put together some useful resources to show to the troops to give them some idea of what it’s all about. At just under 5 minutes, the Large Hadron Rap isn’t [...]
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Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 1, 2008
- In: Blog | events
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Awarding-winning journalist and author Mary Mulvihill has been keeping us up to date for years on all sorts of news and events relating to Science and/or Culture. She has just launched a new blog so it is now even easier to keep up with the latest developments. This month Science@Culture has links to, among others: [...]
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