Experimentskafferiet Dendrology at Virginia Tech Review the Basics of tree ID - View a slideshow to learn about ID tools (or pdf) Dichotomous Keys Figure out your unknown by clicking on the button that best describes it. A table will list the possible matches, with links to our tree fact sheets. If a picture exactly matches your leaf, clicking on the picture will take you directly to a fact sheet for that species. Multichotomous Key An interview - Think of this as a process of elimination, narrowing the possibilities with each selection. 10 Animation Blogs That Inform, Teach, & Inspire Wikipedia tells me that the first animation film was made way back in 1917. We perhaps link the history of animation more with Walt Disney. Even then, from the days of Snow White to today’s cutting edge CGI powered flicks like Avatar, the world of animation creates a fantasy bubble which lately adults too have found captivating. But what’s rendered on the screen takes hours of toil and painstaking detailing. Cartoon Brew This animation blog takes a look at the industry as a whole and covers animation news, views and lots of teasers too. ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Currently, it has gone into a bit of a temporary limbo because of lack of funding, but this long-standing animation resource deserves a spot because it’s a rich source of historical information on animation. Animation World Network The Animation World Network is the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet. TAG Blog Animated Views The informative animation site has a community and a cool contest corner.
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20 great outdoor science experiments When I asked parents what puts them off doing science experiments at home one of the reasons was the mess, which after many a gloop covered kitchen floor I can definitely empathise with. So today, I’m sharing fun outdoor science experiments, making it much easier to clean up afterwards. This one is messy wherever you do it, but we loved making these splatter patterns so much I had to include them. If you don’t want to use paint, you could just use water. You’ll need LOTS of space for this super fast bottle rocket. Can you grow some flowers or vegetables? How about making a pinwheel and watch it move in the wind. If you’ve got snow, you could make a snow volcano or even use sand in summer. Or if you’re on the beach how about trying to make the perfect sandcastle? Learn about the weather with these weather investigations, including a pinecone weather station, making a mini hurricane and a rain gauge. When the weather finally warms up, how about trying some science in your paddling pool.
Yellowstone Volcano: Is "the Beast" Building to a Violent Tantrum? StandardNET August 30, 2001 When the volcano in Yellowstone National Park blew 6,400 centuries ago, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles Basin. Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past—or its potential for another monster eruption. Rangers tell people to keep their distance from bison and steaming geysers. "This is a geologic park, and not many know it," said Robert Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah who has spent his career piecing together the story of the Yellowstone volcano. New sensors have allowed researchers to confirm a suspicion that Smith has held for a long time: that the ancient volcano scientists dub "the beast" is a living force. Stepped-Up Monitoring This summer, Yellowstone was added to the nation's handful of official volcano observatories. It's just too big.
Creepy Gmail Welcome to GeoWind GeoWind is an open source GIS platform that integrates OGC as implemented in GeoTools within NASA's WorldWind The vision of this effort is the creation of an open geospatial system that enables the scientific modeling process to be closer to a 'real world' experience. Some of the planned and anticipated use cases are querying and mapping available data for modeling problems using OGC web services, stepwise delineation of model parameter, embedded execution of an environmental model and its direct mapping of state variables into a world view, or simply the mapping of spatial/temporal model results in a realistic way that was never possible in the past. GeoWind leverages the following technologies: A Geotools/Worldwind integration library and an API that allows the adaptation of simulation models or modeling frameworks such as OMS. GeoWind is in early development! Feature Overview Resources Usage Note Many features such as saving/loading a view configuration are not implemented yet...
Apple Science Experiment Fall is here and apples are everywhere! We have been having fun with apple books and crafts and decided to do a little apple experimenting too. The kids love acid and base reactions, but this time instead of combining them we observed to see what effects they would have on apples. We began by choosing which acids and bases we were going to use. The acids were easy, lemon juice and vinegar are two we always have, but I didn’t know of any bases other than baking soda! After some Googling we found out that Milk of Magnesia is a base too! The kids made predictions about what would happen to the apples and wrote them in their notebooks. They next morning we checked on them and saw some changes! We had hypothesized that the ones in the apples would stay fresh the longest and now realized our prediction was not going to come true. The next day all of the apples were even more brown except the ones in lemon juice! This was an easy experiment to set up with the kids! This linky list is now closed.
Little eco footprints: eco play I stumbled across a pile of plastic toys dumped in bushland a while back. The scene clearly illustrates one of the problems with cheap plastic toys. They never ever go away. Every molecule of synthetic plastic ever created is still in existence somewhere on the planet, unless it was incinerated. Long after plastic toys break (and sadly that’s often shortly after they were purchased) the plastic is still here. A few years ago Little Eco really wanted Santa to bring her a pink plastic battery operated toy cash register. Thankfully, Santa took the time to search for a safe, durable, ethically made timber cash register. This very loved toy is still in perfect condition three years later – and will last long enough to be played with by Little Eco's children and grandchildren or to be passed on to numerous other children. Choose quality over quantity when it comes to toys Before you head out for that last minute shopping spree, stop and consider the true cost of those cheap toys.
How to Memorize - Learn to memorize and increase memory If you are visiting from StumbleUpon and like this article and tool, please consider giving it a thumbs up. Thanks! Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. In this article we are going to focus on a technique that will let you easily: Memorize a speechMemorize the BibleMemorize linesMemorize Scripture At the end of this article is a Javascript tool that makes it easy to implement this method. Synapses and Neurons and How to Memorize In the simplified model of the brain in this discussion, we’ll be looking at neurons and synapses. When you remember something neurons fire signals down particular synapse pathways to other neurons which in turn fire signals to other neurons. Strong Pathways Synapses appear to exhibit plasticity. For example, consider remembering your home telephone number. Now consider a number that you will have trouble remembering. How to Memorize – Practice Recalling not Repeating This is the crucial concept of any type of memorization.
Search and Rescue Help Panels and Controls There are three panels in the application: The main graphics window. See Viewing Controls below for interaction controls. The Tracks panel, listing the currently loaded tracks and the points of the current track. Any field of the displayed track can be edited by double-clicking it and entering a new value. A menu bar and a tool bar located at the top of the window provide access to the application functions, tools and options. Menu bar description From left to right: File - provide options for managing tracks and downloading imagery and elevation data for a particular sector. Tool bar description Track managment - See Track Management. Track Management Loading and saving tracks To load a track from a local file either click on the 'folder' icon in the tool bar, or select the File->Open track file... menu option, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-O. Managing track points A track is made of a list of points each with a geographic position and altitude. Track extension Mouse
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