September 2008
4 posts
Static disequilibrium
Machines that Almost Fall Over from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo
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Science is Beautiful →
Science/AAAS
International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008.
Photos, movies, and intereactive websites are among the winners.
The Darker Side of Bottled Water
Bottled water is a 13 billion dollar per year industry in the US, and this repesents only about 17% of the global market. [1]
The new documentary Flow from director Irena Salina places an “unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.”
Who owns the water?
Who put the Atrazine in Mrs. Murphy’s…...
August 2008
6 posts
WatchSir Ken Robinson says (on TED) that we are preparing for a future that is unknown to us — we don’t even know what it will look like in five years — so teaching and nurturing creativity is as important as literacy in our schools.
“The problem with us is not only prodigal extravagance but also an assumed...”
– Wendell Berry
Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits
Harper’s Magazine
Elitism Update →
John Cole summarizes:
Just so we are clear—visiting your grandmother while vacationing in Hawaii, the state where you were you were born—elitist.
Meeting the millionaire heiress daughter (who you will soon begin an affair with and divorce your first wife and then go on and buy a ton of houses) in Hawaii and then going on and honeymooning in Hawaii – not elitist.
SENCER: Science Education for New Civic... →
Here’s a bunch of university folk really trying to do the right thing… and some have created some amazing courses in which students have worked for some Real Change.
The Perimeter Institute →
… is home to some kind of sexy physics.
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And so it begins...
… with a link to some cute modern physics animations sent along by John Wright in New Zealand: Furry Elephant.