Land on Mars
parislemon: What it looks like to descend to Mars. In color, no less. (via Seldo) Incredible really. Amazing what a bit of Science and Maths can achieve. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Neil Armstrong
nedhepburn: Dead at 82, Neil Armstrong.
Garden of cosmic speculation
skysugar: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. It is a private garden created by Charles Jencks. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals.
Periodic Table of videos
A QR Code Periodic Table of Elements. Love this use of QR codes. I’ve accused them of being elitist url shorteners before but this is a great use. Science is an obvious subject for their integration. Have heard of Science departments adding QR codes to their equipment linking to web pages explaining how they should…
Does Gove Get Games?
Does Gove Get Games? A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and…
Pale Blue Dot – beautiful
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwdRE8MKQg&hd=1] Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
LWF11 Prof Andrew Blake – MD: Microsoft Research Cambridge – NUI
Talk about NUI – Natural User Interfaces (no touch). Obvious plug for Kinect. Showed Anybot robot that allows you to attend a meeting without actually being there. Talked through other examples of such tech. Challenges of creating Kinect: Have to be able to capture body pose. Come in many shapes, sizes and flexibilities! Depth camera made all this…
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Gapminder Updates – Great for Maths, Science, Geography, Social Studies, History & More!
Scrolling through things I had starred for holiday reading, I noticed that Gapminder.org has been updated. I have blogged previously about Gapminder and the fantastic Hans Rosling, it is a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. Watch one of Hans Rosling’s classic TED talks to see…