Discover more about 18th Century Vienna and the events and influences that helped shape the man who would compose music that would forever describe to us all what it is to be a hero.
Month: October 2006
Google Without Ads
Google’s secret and/or forgotten places includes a Google search without ads.
Calculus on the Web
The principal purpose of COW is to provide you, the student or interested user, with the opportunity to learn and practice problems in calculus (and in the future other topics in mathematics) in a friendly environment via the internet.
Ok, I included this in the games category because it’s kind of fun to see how far you can go.
Leukocyte Extravasation
The inner life of a cell is an educational video from the BioVisions Project at Harvard University. I don’t know anything about Leukocyte Extravasation or Molecular Cell Biology in general, so I looked up words that I didn’t know.
Chemokines are a family of structurally related glycoproteins with potent leukocyte activation and/or chemotactic activity.
Great, now I have more words to look up, but when you don’t even know the terms, the whole thing sounds like this.
Remember learning science through tedious textbooks and slideshows? Those days are over, at least for Harvard students studying molecular and cellular biology. Today, these Harvard students can explore the microscopic world of a cell through 3D animation, enhancing traditional textbook learning. Using LightWave, John Liebler of XVIVO Scientific Animation created the 3D animation short, The Inner Life of a Cell, at the request of Harvard University.
Losick’s own Biological Sciences 52, “Introductory Molecular Biology,” puts a premium on interaction and engagement. He’s used part of his HHMI grant to hire a graphic artist, Matt Bohan, to make dynamic computer animations of molecular processes. These are ideally suited for teaching molecular biology, he says, because they let him show how several distinct processes-like the unzipping of a DNA strand and the pairing of its bases-work together. “If you’re trying to teach something that is dynamic on a blackboard, it’s hard to do,” he explains. “With an animation, I can show things in motion, and also I can layer.”
The bottom line is this: It’s the illustrations that help me make the leap from not caring about molecular biology, to being curious and in turn learning something about how life works at the molecular level.
Rocketeer
Rocketeer is a free web based on line game based on the world of model rocketry. The object of the game is to collect experience points which you get from visiting different areas, building, repairing and launching rockets.
I had a fairly good first day. I got kicked around at the industrial district and in the countryside, but I had 6 successful launches and I’m now an Apprentice Assistant Rocketeer. This is going to be fun!
The model rocket simulator attempts to calculate the maximum altitude of your rocket based on some parameters.
Equations for model rocketeers – how to accurately predict speed and altitude for your rocket from weight, diameter, motor thrust and impulse.
Thanks, Matt
Hairy Mail
Jay Leno’s Garage
Somewhere in Southern California – a world of movies, magic, and make believe – is Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage, a place not without its fair share of magic itself. Spread across two low-slung buildings cooked by the sun, is one of the world’s great car collections and one of the world’s best-equipped garages custom-built from the ground up to keep everything running in tip-top shape.
Late-night Leno also owns a Lamborghini Miura; a 1932 Packard Twin Six 12-cylinder coupe; a 1913 Mercer; several Bugattis, Duesenbergs and Lamborghinis; two Stanley Steamers; a 1956 Chrysler Imperial; a 1966 Dodge Coronet Hemi; A Dodge Viper; and a 1955 Buick Roadmaster.
“I believe we don’t really own these cars,” he says. “We just keep them for the next owners.”
Lot’s of fun cars, and trucks.
Where’s the Blastolene?
Ok, here we go (Music in background).
Neighboroo
Neighboroo is the easiest way to learn about neighborhoods.
I grew up in “Very Republican” Grundy Center where the Overall Crime Rate is ZERO.
Charles Darwin
This site contains every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts.
Danny and Nina
Although we have only been a couple for a little over three years, both of us had already lived in New York City for a good chunk of time when we met. After spending about eight years in Brooklyn, Nina was ready for a change of scenery, and when Danny moved on from a very demanding job the timing was perfect for a relocation.
Unfortunately, we had trouble deciding on where exactly we should move, not because we couldn’t think of any places we would like to live, but because there were too many places we thought we would enjoy. That’s when we had the idea of turning things over to you!