Random stuff
World-wide telescope takes you to infinity and beyond — A free program launched today will effectively turn every computer that downloads it into a mini-planetarium capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies. (The Age, New York Times, CNET News)
Giving Life to Biology – Catering to instructors of beginning biological science courses, the Baylor College of Medicine’s popular BioEd Online collection is an oasis in a desert of need. With media offerings that include video, audio, and slide presentations and topics covering diverse topics in modern biological science, BioEd Online has the content necessary to provide up-to-date instruction in modern biology classes.
http://www.bioedonline.org/
Turning the Pages of History – Go back. Go way back in the history of scientific investigation and you’ll discover some of the earliest significant writings concerned plants. The Botanicus Digital Library recognizes and brings to life some of these early, classic writings of the masters of botany. A treasure trove for history buffs and plant lovers alike, the Botanicus Digital Library is produced by the Missouri Botanical Garden Library with support from the W.M. Keck and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
http://www.botanicus.org/
A listener-submitted joke from Ian…
A chemist, a physicist and a statistician went hunting deer in the forest. They saw a deer about 150m away in a clearing. The chemist went first, fired and missed, raising a puff of dust about three metres to the deer’s right.
The physicist realised where the chemist had gone wrong and allowed for the wind. But he over-compensated and the shot raised a puff of dust three metres to the deer’s left.
The statistician jumped up and shouted, “Whoo-hoo! Got him!”
Einstein Quotations
(http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html)
The Periodic Table of condiments
(http://backtable.org/~blade/fnord/condiments.html)
MIT’s OpenCourseWare – One of the world’s most famous and renouned academic institutes, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made much of its course material available online. MIT’s OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for educators, students and self-learners around the world.
(http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html)
The Kaye effect – Scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands made a video of leaping shampoo in which they explain the so-called Kaye effect. Scientifically interesting but also of great aesthetic beauty!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX4_3cV_3Mw)
