Tag Archives: Science and Education
Great Minds in Modern Science Writing Don’t All Think Alike
I have often wanted to sink my teeth into real writing by real scientists, but I don’t feel qualified to dig through the endless of pages of writing to find snippets that get to the point. I don’t have time to read entire books or papers on subjects that are way over my head. So […] Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Science, Science and Education, scientists
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WISE Space Telescope to Launch on December 11
Barring any unforeseen weather events at Vandenberg Air Force Base (I’m sure NASA is glad that they do not have launch facilities in upper Wisconsin right now), the WISE space telescope will be launched around 6 AM Pacific time on Friday, December 11th. Built as a part of NASA’s Explorers Program, WISE will observe our […] Continue reading
Kids Will Devour These Wild Reads
I am always looking for interesting nonfiction books for my kids to read. They seem to enjoy nonfiction as much as they enjoy fiction, but a lot of informative books aren’t aimed at younger kids. They have too much small text, or are too long or too dry. Some are hopelessly out of date. Through […] Continue reading
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Tagged Big Cats, Book, children, library, Publishing, Science and Education, Wild Animals
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1d4 For The Win
News from The Department of Geek Things You Didn’t Even KNOW There Were Records For:
A team of professors from Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Michigan have set a new world record for packing the most tetrahedra into a given volume. According to the announcement from Kent State, “The researchers […] Continue reading
Hubble’s Deepest View Yet and a Proud GeekDad
How does one go from being a Geek to becoming a GeekDad? For this GeekDad, the story is related to an image released Tuesday that was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. When I was fresh out of college, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to work on the Hubble Space […] Continue reading
Weird Image in the Norwegian Sky — Could It Be Spiral Marketing?
This picture was taken of the sky over northern Norway early this morning local time.
My first reaction on seeing this picture was: “What a badly Photoshopped picture!” But similar pictures have come in from enough sources across Norway that, if it’s a hoax, it’s a really well-planned one. I still don’t know what to make […] Continue reading
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Tagged Norway, Science and Education, Space, spiral
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New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
The Sugar learning environment is the operating system and software that powers the XO laptops. Sugar Labs packages their software stack onto a flash drive allowing you to not only test drive their environment but also boot to it from any computer at any time. Version 2 of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a […] Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, Projects and Activities, Science and Education, Sugar on a Stick, SugarLabs, XO-1
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UT Dallas – Fearless Engineering VEX Robotics Competition
On Saturday we competed at a VEX Robotics Competition at UT Dallas. Sponsored by Fearless Engineering and the US Navy.
We arrived at the University of Texas at Dallas campus about 7:30 and there was still frost on the trees as we drove through the campus. Almost a winter wonderland, and a little colder than I […] Continue reading
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Tagged competition, Robotics, Robots, Science and Education, vex
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2009 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #6: Green & Science
This week’s installment of the GeekDad gift guide covers science gifts as well as green gifts. Please leave a comment if we missed any, and don’t hesitate to click on the graphic above to see more gift suggestions.
Mythbusters Science Kits
Everyone’s favorite faux scientists, the Mythbusters have been explaining things forever on their awesome show. Now […] Continue reading
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Tagged Gifts, green, Hacking the Holidays, Holiday Gift Guide, Science, Science and Education
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This Week In Space
Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! As reported last week, a Soyuz spacecraft returned three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth bringing the crew of the ISS down to two. This reduced crew, down from a total of twelve on board when Atlantis was docked, hasn’t slowed activity […] Continue reading
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Tagged Hubble, ISS, Science and Education, Space
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