Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities Search form Search Low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious. Science of Cooking • Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and Webcasts.PreviousNext Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More Auroras: Paintings in the Sky Far north in the night sky, a faint glow appears on the horizon. Feeling Pressured Feel atmospheric pressure changes by stepping into a garbage bag. Camera Obscura Take the Beat Back Uncover the everyday origins of some extraordinary instruments. The Cold Water Candy Test Science of Baseball What's the science behind a home run? Arctic Seals These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice Plant Hybrids If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers. 2016 Total Solar Eclipse Telescope View Watch the telescope view of the entire 2016 total solar eclipse in Micronesia. Energy from Death Slinky in Hand Make waves without getting wet. Cheshire Cat Pages explore Connect
Could This Tiny $70 Box Be The Next Mouse? Maybe It’s so rare that technology feels like magic. That first time you sifted through thousands of songs in your pocket or used a touch-screen phone? Forgotten now. I only mention this because the Leap certainly looks like one of those magical moments in technology. The company’s use case metaphor? To be honest, every bit of the story sounds too good to be true: From the CTO David Holz, who is just 23 (but has consulted for NASA) to the ridiculously low $70 asking price (on preorder now for release in early 2013). There’s a lot unsaid about how user ergonomics will respond to holding our arms in the air and gesturing all day, and the fact that we still can’t touch the objects we’re manipulating. And already, I can’t help but wonder, what could happen if we aimed Leap at our faces rather than our hands? Pre-order Leap here. [Hat tip: Fast Company]
Machine Scans Twitter For Mentions Of Fruit, Then Turns Them Into Smoothies We tend to think of data in one way: numbers. We can change the fonts, or we can graph them out. Maybe we can even use advanced visualization to make someone really grasp a particular figure. But numbers are always using one sense: sight. Could meaningful data be consumed in other ways? Quite literally, yes it can. “The goal was to break free and think beyond traditional means of data representation and analysis,” the design trio tells Co.Design. Interestingly enough, the 1:1 representation of fruit as flavor wasn’t the project’s original intent. Their literal representation of data is equal parts elegant and brilliant. [Hat tip: FlowingData]
This Sci-Fi Touchscreen Can Give The iPhone Real Buttons Most of us have adjusted to life with touchscreens. They lack tactile feedback, the rubber nubs that enable thoughtless use of our television remotes, but touchscreens create dynamic virtual buttons and open up vital screen real estate. They’re worth the thumb-numbing tradeoff. But what if we could have both, a dynamic touchscreen with real buttons? A startup called Tactus Technology has developed a thin “Tactile Layer” that sits on top of touchscreens in place of the normal surface (it’s no thicker). “If we look at high daily usage--say 100 times per day--we use less than 1% of a typical smartphone battery,” explains Tactus CEO Craig Ciesla. In their tech demos, an iPhone has physical number keys, and a tablet has a real QWERTY layout. “For the first generation of technology, the position of the buttons are pre-configured [in the factory],” Ciesla tells Co.Design. In other words, first-generation Tactus tech could enable an iPhone with a physical QWERTY predefined by Apple.
Another View: The Science and Strategy of College Recruiting Andrew Sullivan for The New York TimesA statue of Nathan Hale on Yale’s Old Campus. Marina Keegan is a senior English major in the writing concentration at Yale University. NEW HAVEN — Last May, one of the largest hedge funds in the world paid me $100 to eat gourmet popcorn and explain why I wasn’t applying for one of its (lucrative!) jobs. As I sat in a hotel suite with six other Yale students – musicians, biologists, dramatists, other-ists – and answered questions about my future plans, I got this uneasy feeling that the man in the beautiful suit was going to take my Hopes and Dreams back to some lab to figure out the best way to crush them. And indeed, they have it down to a science. They’re good at it. When I arrived at Yale as an eager 18 year old, I had never even heard of consulting or I-banking. So what happens? What I found was somewhat surprising: the clichéd pull of high salaries is only part of the problem. Of course, none of us are actually special. And I’m not alone.
Opinion / Lead : The economist as saviour We were flying to Mumbai where the Prime Minister was to address a gathering of business leaders. I had drafted a speech that he found time to read only on the plane. Half way through the journey he returned the draft with his notes scribbled in the margins. “I have added a quotation from Keynes”, he wrote. As soon as we reached Mumbai’s Raj Bhavan I asked the university library for a copy of John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace (first published in 1919). This was October 2006. “If the rich had spent their new wealth on their own enjoyments, the world would long ago have found such a regime intolerable. Prime Minister’s religion Ensuring the “growth of the cake” has been Dr. The clue to Dr. Uninformed commentators in the media often view Keynes only as the doctor who had a medicine for depression. However, among Keynes’s many contributions to economics was his analysis of the role of ‘expectations’. Keynesian or neo-liberal? Thus, while Mr. Best exposition
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LinkedIn Is Raking in the Moolah Facebook gets all the attention, but LinkedIn has figured out how to turn a social network into a cash machine. And it doesn't even need you to be there to make money inkedIn’s Chief Executive, Jeff Weiner, doesn’t want to talk about Facebook. No, no, no. “I’m not going to get into comparisons with them,” he declares. And yet a few minutes later Weiner rises from his chair, walks over to a whiteboard and energetically sketches a diagram that the world’s other giant social network can’t match. Weiner draws three concentric circles to show how LinkedIn makes its money. “That’s the bull’s-eye,” he says. Compare this to even three-and-a-half years ago, when Weiner joined LinkedIn. That’s when Weiner’s bull’s-eye emerged. There’s no better way to understand LinkedIn’s quiet savvy, in the midst of Facebook’s noisy clatter, than to compare the two sites’ financial efficiency. One could argue that it’s better to have a small slice of something massive than a big slice of something smaller.
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