Tag Archives: Science and Education
The GeekDad Space Report for February 8, 2010
Hello all from the Hoth-like D.C. Metro area! We are all digging out here but space exploration marches on!
The launch of a Progress supply ship went off on time this past week and rendezvoused with the ISS on Thursday. Meanwhile, at the Kennedy Space Center, the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour was delayed from Sunday […] Continue reading
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Tagged Endeavour, Everything Else, Hubble, Intelsat, MODIS, Science and Education, SDO, Snowmageddon, Space, Space Shuttle, STS-130, TERRA
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Not Just An Ice Block: The Changing Face Of Pluto
Pluto has been revealed to be more dynamic than previously thought. New images, taken with Hubble’s revived Advanced Camera for Survey’s High Resolution Camera, reveal changing surface features where the changes are likely caused by ice sublimiating at the poles of the dwarf planet and then redistributing to other parts of the surface. The color […] Continue reading
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Tagged ACS, Hubble, New Horizons, Pluto, Science and Education, Space
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Science Fiction or Reality: When do the Machines Take Over?
Science fiction has given us the fear of autonomous computers taking over the world. Is it possible? Are there early warning signs? Literary influences? Here is my tongue-in-cheek threat assessment. Continue reading
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Tagged Anne McAffrey, Dan Simmons, Fred Saberhagen, humor, Matrix, Robert Heinlein, Science and Education, Skynet, terminator
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The Physics of Bicycling
Luther F. Davis III, a physics teacher at Lake Mary High School in Florida, likes to give his students memorable lessons. He has smashed cinder blocks over his chest while lying on a bed of nails to illustrate pressure and had students drag him around the football field with ropes to show how forces direct […] Continue reading
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Tagged American Diabetes Association, Bicycling, Physics, Science and Education
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No Boundaries Contest Explorers Careers in STEM
Space and exploration can be an exciting idea, especially to young people. How often growing up have we exclaimed that we wanted to be an astronaut? Yet despite the ending of the imminent mothballing of the Constellation program at NASA, there are still hundreds of career options available to people wishing to be involved and […] Continue reading
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How Do We Stop Hollowing Out the Middle of America?
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America by Patrick Carr & Maria Kefalas
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the majority of our readership doesn’t live in a rural area. I mean, the majority of America’s population doesn’t live in a rural area—that’s […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Books, brain drain, community development, Education, Midwest, reviews, rural, Science and Education, small town, youth
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Cool Bees Trained to Tell One Face From Another
File this under cool science to share with your kids! Bees continue to fascinate and often surprise scientists, and this rather interesting experiment certainly falls into both categories.
In a story from the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers report that they have determined bees can learn how to differentiate between human faces. From Discovery News:
The study’s […] Continue reading
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The GeekDad Space Report for February 1, 2010
Hello all and welcome to the latest edition of the GeekDad Space Report! The launch scheduled for last week of a Russian Military communications satellite was a success, lifting off on time. We have two launches scheduled for this week, both to the ISS so the launch schedule for the year is starting to pick […] Continue reading
Discover Discover the Desert
Our world is full of many different types of ecosystems. We tend to be very familiar with the ones in which we live, and with the ones where we spend a great deal of time. But we’re often unfamiliar with many of the others. Since the world’s deserts are only a small part of what […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Desert, Kids and Teens, Projects and Activities, Science and Education, water
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How Will the Apple Tablet iPad Change Our Kids’ Lives?
There has been much speculation about what Apple will be announcing today. Will it be a glorified book reader? An iPod Touch/iPhone on steroids? We will find out very quickly here, and then we can all envision how we could use the device. Will it help you at work? Will it be the perfect commuting […] Continue reading
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