WRITING. OMG SPACE. OMG SPACE is the thesis project of Margot Trudell, an OCAD graduate of their graphic design program in Toronto, Canada.
This website aims to illustrate the scale and the grandeur of our solar system, as well as illustrate through the use of infographics our work in the exploration of our solar system with various spacecraft. Despite all the work that scientists are putting into space exploration and research, and all that we've learned and acheived over the past half-century, the general public isn't very aware of it. I believe that this mostly due to how this information is communicated to the general public, in a very academic and scientific manner. It's hard for most people without backgrounds in these areas to really comprehend what it means when we send a probe past Jupiter for example, or how far away Eris really is, and it's simply difficult to truly grasp the magnitude of our solar system and all it's celestial inhabitants. The Solar System: Beautifully Visualized in Scale. If you could get all the planets in the galaxy together for a photo shoot in the studio, it would probably look a lot like these insanely well done illustrations of the planetary crew.
That’s right too… these aren’t Photoshopped satellite images, but actually 3D digital illustrations of our most local cosmic neighbors. Created by freelance designer David Fuhrer, each of the planets is rendered against a white background, much like one would photograph a new car in the studio. The stark background brings out the bright hues of the colorful orbs, unlike the starry black background we are used to seeing. In the group illustrations, each planet is displayed in scale to its neighbors, giving us an insightful and revealing look into just how small (or big) our planet earth actually is compared to the others.
The illustrations are called The Cosmos, and are part of a series for an upcoming documentary and German book. See Also Space Race: Huge Graphic Reveals the Size of our Galaxy Mercury Venus. MBA Online. Founded in 1988 in London, the Financial Times is hailed as one of the world’s leading global business news organizations.
Additionally, the Financial Times recognizes the best management programs through its annual rankings in six areas related to MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Finance, and Master in Management. Since 2005, the Financial Times has been ranking online MBA programs. The 2014 Online MBA Listings are comprised of 46 leading business schools in the world, 18 of which are in the United States. The Methodology To be eligible for ranking, schools must be accredited by AACSB or Equis, have programs running a minimum of four years, and have graduated its first class at least three years prior to the ranking publication date. Above, we’ve shown the modified version of the Financial Times ranking (as explained in our methodology), which only showcases U.S. Energy & Dynamic Braking. Infographic Journal - All About Infographics. Alltop - Top Infographics News.
Cool Infographics - Blog. BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts.
SolarBeat. 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare.
The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.”
We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. Mushroom Life. IntegralCALC.