Tag Archives: Science and Education
Robot Overview: iSobot With An Attitude (and Weapons)
Paxshikai has posted a cool and somewhat disturbing video of an i-SOBOT wielding a large arsenal of weapons.
Here’s hoping that more people will continue to hack some interesting (and hopefully not so lethal) tools for our robotic friends. When we get done with the VEX Robotics season I may have to try my hand at […] Continue reading
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Tagged Science and Education, Toys and Technology
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To Ban or Not to Ban ‘Nerd’ and ‘Geek’ From Our Lexicon
It’s been suggested that we ban the words ‘Nerd’ and ‘Geek’ from the lexicon to combat the negative stereotypes that go with them so they can thrive easier. But there will always be nerds and geeks, no matter what we call them. Continue reading
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Tagged Anderegg, Everything Else, geek, Math, Nerd, Science, Science and Education
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Kids Will Love the Virtual Toys at Poisson Rouge
With a lot of kids’ time so planned out these days, with their fun and learning both quite regimented, it is important to let them just be free to explore interests on their own. There are lots of ways to do this off-line, but some free form places exist online as well.
One of my kids’ […] Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Exploring, Kids and Teens, Science and Education, The Internet, Toys and Technology
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This Week In Space, December 21st, 2009
This week, as there are no scheduled launches, I would like to highlight an image release from Hubble from this past week. Before I get to that, let me hit a couple highlights for the week.
The three launches scheduled for last week made it off the pad successfully, albeit with a 24 hour delay on […] Continue reading
Professor and Comic Book Guy Rocks
Seeing stories like this warms the cockles of my heart. Or, as Denis Leary would say, ” maybe the sub-cockle area.” A former professor is donating his comic book and graphic novel collection, worth as much as $100,000 (Canadian), to The University of Western Ontario.
Eddy Smet was a professor at UWO’s Huron college for 30 […] Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, Arts, Comic book, Comics, Denis Leary, People, Science and Education, Swamp Thing: Love and Death, University of Western Ontario, Watchmen
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All About Hayabusa (The Spacecraft, Not The Halo Armor)
I know my kids get tired of me tilting my head out from behind my laptop screen and proclaiming the next great achievement from the space realms: “Hey kids, Hayabusa is on its way back!”. This time however, their little faces actually turned toward me and smiled: “Hayabusa? Are you talking about Halo?”.
No!
Hayabusa is also […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, asteroid, Hayabusa, Ion Engine, Itokawa, JAXA, Science and Education
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Geeky Educators Unite at the NSTA Conference
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend part of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) area conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, from December 3-5. More than 2000 educators were supposed to attend for this gathering on Science Education. There were hundreds of workshops, presentations and seminars to teach about developments in […] Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Bill Nye, Galileoscope, National Science Teachers Association, Projects and Activities, Science, Science and Education, Teachers
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Last Man On The Moon, For Now
Thirty-seven years ago today, December 18, 1972, Eugene Cernan stepped into Apollo 17’s Challenger lunar module and became the last man to set foot on the moon. With Charlie Bolden, Lori Garver, and the Obama administration weighing the options for the future of America’s role in human spaceflight (unless Congress decides for them first) it […] Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Armchair Geek, Gene Cernan, Human Space Flight, LEO, Moon, NASA, Sally Ride, Science and Education, women
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The Top Ten Astronomy Photos of 2009
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Today, my favorite astronomer, Phil Plait, has put up his ten favorite astronomy photos of 2009. He says that it is always hard narrowing it down to just ten photos, but I imagine that it was even harder this year. It was a pretty great year for astronomy. With all of the spacecraft […] Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Bad Astronomy, Discover, Discover Magazine, Phil Plait, Photography, Science and Education
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This Week In Space, December 14th, 2009
Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! Last week, we reported on the upcoming launch of the WISE observatory. The launch, scheduled for this past Friday, was delayed till this morning and is expected to launch ~14:09 GMT (09:09 EST). For more information about the WISE mission, check out the GeekDad article by […] Continue reading
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Tagged Expedition22, Glonass, Hubble, ISS, Science and Education, Soyuz, Space, VirginGalactic, WIRE
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