Mergi la scoala – Profesorul care face fulgerele să “cânte” şi scaunele să meargă prin aer. Şcoală vie într-un oraş mort. Profesorul Mircea Nistor, om la 51 de ani, pluteşte în aer cu scaunul, în laboratorul său de fizică. Stând aşezat pe scaun, “merge” aşa prin aer, la vreo cinci centimetri distanţă de sol. Nu este nimic paranormal, ci numai una dintre invenţiile realizate cu elevii lui de la Colegiul Naţional Traian Lalescu din Hunedoara. De fapt, scaunul profesorului se sprijină pe o pernă de aer sub presiune, comandată de la sol. La final, domnul profesor coboară la loc pe pământ să ne mai şocheze şi cu nişte fulgere care “cântă” (nişte fulgere în miniatură, de fapt descărcări electrice din care izvorăşte muzică), fabricate tot de elevii lui, în laborator.
“E fabulos locul ăsta în care suntem (n.a. Universul) şi este ruşinos de mărunt traiul nostru de zi cu zi. De aceea e bine ca oamenii să încerce să mai vadă şi altceva”, ne explică. Astăzi domnul profesor poartă un tricou oranj, de adolescent, pe care scrie “Viva la Relativity”. Dar ce este un microcontroler? Ce crede profesorul Mircea Nistor despre: Teaching Science Is Bolstered by Fewer Lectures and More Working in Groups. Greatest 101 questions of all time: 1-20. Let's Build a Lab-on-Wheels for Science Education! Brilliant work, everyone--we did it! Check out the new Think Tank website at CogSciOnWheels.org *Scroll down for the names of our 150+ funders!
Thank you guys! -Tyler Alterman, Project Lead (tyleralterman@gmail.com) Sponsorships so far: Emotiv Lifesciences Press so far: Wired, Salon, GOOD, Nature, Pacific Standard, TEDxGramercy, David DiSalvo's Daily Brain, TechCommGeekMom, Science Is Beauty, Science Junkie, Structural Patterns, The Science of Reality, The Macaulay Messenger, CUNY Newswire, Indiegogo homepage Right now, there is a movement happening. As of this year, the Obama administration is considering a multi-billion dollar investment in building a map of the brain.Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge (a famous book on the science of behavior-change) was given a top position at the White House.There are a growing number of people like Dr.
The Think Tank (TTT), as a lab-on-wheels and education station, will bring this movement to the public. The plan. Upon hitting the streets, TTT will: Dr. Life in Optical. Everyone tells you that once you’re a new mother, you kind of lose your dignity: you don’t have time to take a shower, you don’t remember the last time you washed your hair, you’re so sleep deprived that even if you remembered how to put on make-up it wouldn’t help much. Also, you don’t fit in normal clothes yet, but you’d look positively stupid prancing around in your maternity wear, that proud firm bump of yours turned into a sloppy sac waiting to contract back into womanly form.
On the upside though, your body is so flushed with love hormones for that helpless adorable super-cute newborn of yours that it doesn’t really matter and if you’re lucky, you only realise what you went through in hindsight. Well, I’m the living proof that the sacrifice of dignity starts before you’ve given birth! Today was the perfect example. It was a public holiday and the weather was glorious, so we decided to take Xavier to see some nature.
Like this: Like Loading... The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of. Every year, the online magazine Edge--the so-called smartest website in the world, helmed by science impresario John Brockman--asks top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics to weigh in on a single question. This year, that query was "What Should We Be Worried About? ", and the idea was to identify new problems arising in science, tech, and culture that haven't yet been widely recognized. This year's respondents include former presidents of the Royal Society, Nobel prize-winners, famous sci-fi authors, Nassem Nicholas Taleb, Brian Eno, and a bunch of top theoretical physicists, psychologists, and biologists. And the list is long. What keeps the smartest folks in the world awake at night?
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Engineers Week takes place February 17-23, with a special focus on girls in engineering on February 21. Our chat on Wednesday night, February 20 will kick things off. As the mom of STEM-loving boys, I've noticed that many programs that naturally draw them in tend to include few, if any, girls. We need to change the conversation to include and excite girls about STEM topics. Angela Maiers has great suggestions along this line in her piece at Huffington Post. Research indicates the importance of exposing girls to female role models with STEM careers and reinforcing girls' ability to learn, grow and meet challenges. According to E Week supporter Barbara Rusinko, "In the US, women account for nearly 60 percent of college students, but fewer than one in five of these women are engineering students. " Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Education Team Building Early Childhood Center.
Downtown Las Vegas is a hub of urban revitalization. With tech companies, budding entrepreneurs, and families flocking to the area from all over the world, many have young children in tow with education on their minds. Connie Yeh and her passionate team are on a mission to create a safe educational environment where children can learn, grow, and explore. 9th Bridge School will open its doors in August 2013 to the next generation of dreamers and innovators.
Yeh heads up the Downtown Project Education initiative and has built a team of experienced educators, and developed both global and local think tanks populated by experts in positive psychology, curriculum mapping, special education, child development, and neuroscience. 9th Bridge will host children aged six weeks to Kindergarten, led by teachers that hold both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in early childhood education and development. Socrates Comenius. Science Museums and the Popularization of Science in Brazil. “Every artist must go where the people are…” (Nos Bailes da Vida, from Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant). 1What is there in common between the two children in the photos presented in Figure 1? They are the most convincing representation of what psychology teaches us and that is usually propelled as one of the main motivations for the initiatives of popularization of science: the innate curiosity of human beings, which is the main power behind science.
Being a common trait of every human being, but pushed away from the common citizen, science must now be demystified; it is not something that can only be understood by a few enlightened, but something that can be accessed by everyone. To be understood would be enough to associate it with our daily lives. 2Figure 1. Curiosity is innate of human beings. 3We do not say this possessed by a romantic vision, preaching that everyone can know everything and that science must be everyone’s activity. 10Why? Table 1. Wise Beyond Their Years: What Babies Really Know. Overview | Singularity University CEE. About the Global Impact Competition One of Singularity University's methods to achieve impact in the world is through Global Impact Competitions.
These competitions take place all over the world and applicants compete for the prize of attending the 10 week Graduate Studies Program with their tuition fully covered. The competitions acts as a platform to identify outstanding entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and engineers who propose the most innovative project to positively impact one million people in their country or region in the next 3 years. The Prize Two scholarships to the Graduate Studies Program 2014 at Singularity University, located at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, California worth USD 30,000 USD.
Additional prizes may also be awarded for the implementation and incubation of certain projects. Application Criteria Timeline Deadline for application: 2nd March, 2014 23.59 CETFinalists selection: 28th March, 2014Finals: 29th April, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. How to Apply. Edge.org. ArtScience Museum | Singapore Museum | Marina Bay Sands Singapore. Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour.
Design Faction. Design Faction, part of Lodz Design Festival, presents twelve stories that explore the space between design and science. Photo by Maya Art ‘Design Faction’ ( from 20th to 30th october) is part of Lodz Design Festival- selected as one of ten presentations proposed by external curators. The exhibition, curated by Kasia Jezowska and developed in partnership with the British Council, looks into ‘change’, which is this year’s festival main theme. It presents twelve stories that explore the space between design and science. The projects speculate on possibilities of the human body blurring the border between innovation and critical commentary Self Worth.
Self Worth. Finger Nose Stylus by Dominic Wilcox. Finger nose stylus by Dominic Wilcox, 2011Device for Mindless Communication by Gerard Rallo. Device for Mindless Communication by Gerard Rallo. Call me, Choke me by Gunnar Green. Call me, Choke me by Gunnar Green. The Audio Tooth Implant by James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau. NOTCOT.ORG. Important Science Of The Season: Hot Chocolate Tastes Better In An Orange Cup. A creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste and smell sweeter than it would taste served in plain white or stark red, according to European scientists.
This adds to the growing set of studies that claim the vessel in which our food is served can have a dramatic effect on the way our senses perceive the food. In what may have been the easiest volunteer experiment ever, 57 people had to drink hot chocolate served in four different types of cups. They were all plastic and the same size, but were either white, cream, red or orange with white inside. The tasters reported the chocolate tasted better in the cream-colored and orange cups. The color had nothing to do with this difference, neither physically nor chemically, but apparently the drinkers' brains thought they detected a difference, according to Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain.
The dragon that evolved into a pterosaur. Jeff Hecht, consultant (Image: Cornelius Meyer) The Italian inscription on this curious beast identifies it as a "dragon as it was recovered in the hands of the engineer Cornelius Meyer". The picture comes from a 1696 book that Meyer wrote describing his construction projects, and an etching on the cover claims to show the dragon as it looked alive in 1691, stalking the marshes near Rome. In the minds of "young Earth" creationists, Meyer's dragon has evolved far beyond an engineer's flight of fancy. They claim it's clearly a pterosaur - proving that, far from being extinct for the last 150 million years, the monster flying reptile was alive and kicking in 1691. They have even identified it as Scaphognathus, a pterosaur that scientists believe lived in what is now Germany. The first fossils were discovered in 1831, embedded in the limestone beds like those that later yielded archaeopteryx. "Ostensible skin hides the junctions between the parts of different animals," Senter says.
Coolmeia Ideias em Cooperação | Uma incubadora de ideias e soluções altruístas - Coolmeia, Ideias em Cooperação. The Hear Heres by Studio Weave. The sounds of the countryside are amplified when you place your ear towards one of these four enormous trumpets built by architects Studio Weave (+ slideshow). Named The Hear Heres, the horns are dotted along a walk through the grounds of Kedleston Hall, a stately home in Derbyshire, England. One horn is pointed down towards the surface of a lake (above), while another angles up towards the sky (below). The third trumpet winds around the the trunk of a tree, so listeners can hear the movements of the branches (below). When describing the fourth and largest of the trumpets (below), Studio Weave's Maria Smith told Dezeen how "it's fun for two people to sing to each other from opposite ends. " She explained how the sound is loud on one side, but "sounds distant" from the other.
"We thought people would play and experiment with them," she said. Each trumpet is made from fibreglass and coated with zinc, and a set of metal struts holds each one in place. See more installations on Dezeen » Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World: Randy Alfred: 9780316208192: Amazon.com. SCIENCE: Ruining Everything Since 1543 (an SMBC Collection) by Zachary Weiner. SMBC (short for "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal") is a daily-updated comic strip about all sorts of topics. Its author, Zach Weinersmith, is a giant dork who also has many other geeky projects such as producing SMBC Theater, writing for Snowflakes, his science blog the Weinerworks, and his science-themed podcast The Weekly Weinersmith (which he co-hosts with his wife, the parasitologist Kelly Weinersmith).
So it will come as no huge surprise that this, the third SMBC printed collection, is a compendium of his finest science-related strips. Like these! Theory of Revolution: Table: The baseline version of the book offered in this Kickstarter will contain over 100 favorite strips about science and scientists from the SMBC archive, delicately hand-selected by only the finest comic consumers and autographed by the author. For the moment, the rewards are secret. 1k) Phil Plait's Science Story Added to Book! Virtual Heritage Schools | v-must. The STEAM Movement in Education | Minds Enabled. Innovation has long been the driving engine for many countries and is the critical x-factor for which there can be no substitute.
The STEM initiative, while laudable, is missing one critical ingredient… Art. For a long time, Art education and Science education seemed to be thought of as opposite poles on a continuum with free-thinking, loosey-goosey, unconstrained, anything-goes, visual arts on one extreme, and the rigid, hard-and-fast, unbreakable, unfeeling rules of mathematics on the other. Students were shuffled between both experiences in the lower grades until they were required to choose one to stick with, around the beginning of high school. Many view the STEM topics as where the real learning happened. A successful education in Math or Sciences would lead them down the road to a good university, and therefore a good job, a secure financial future, and a long happy life. “Art is where it begins!” You Might Like: Edge.org. How-To and DIY Projects for Kids and Families. VIDEO Academicianul Solomon Marcus la Adevărul Live, sfat către elevi: „Fiţi flămânzi, fiţi nebunatici! Nu lăsaţi ca alţii să vă trăiască viaţa!”
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