Tag Archives: science
Tour Of The ISS
“In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer … Continue reading
Water Spirals
What do you think of when you see this video: Magic? Witchcraft? Trickery? Science? If you answered 1 or 2, I’m sorry, that’s the wrong answer. If you answered 4, with a little bit of 3 thrown in there, huzzah, … Continue reading
PBS: The Movie
This is a brilliant trailer by Gritty Reboots for PBS: The Movie (PBS meets The Avengers), starring the supreme Carl Sagan, the wonderful Bill Nye, the magnificent Mr Rogers, and the mighty Bob Ross. Why did they make this? In their words: … Continue reading
Richard Feynman Nanotechnology Lecture
“In this lecture, Feynman tries to retell his 1959 lecture from a more modern perspective in that many aspects of his vision have been full filled, particularly with the invention of the electron microscope, the atomic force microscope and experimental … Continue reading
Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes
“In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in … Continue reading
Chris Hadfield’s Snapshots From Space
This is too good and interesting not to post. Following on from yesterday’s videos of science aboard the ISS, today we have Commander Chris Hadfield talk about how he takes photos of the Earth from the ISS. If you follow … Continue reading
Wringing Out Water On The ISS – For Science!
“CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield performed a simple science experiment designed by grade 10 Lockview High School students Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner. The students from Fall River, Nova Scotia won a national science contest held by the Canadian Space Agency … Continue reading
AllTrials
I’m going to publish something today which I believe is very important. That thing is AllTrials. All trials registered. All results reported. About the AllTrials campaign: “Doctors and regulators need the results of clinical trials to make informed decisions about … Continue reading
BBC Knowledge Explainer DNA
Explaining science in short, concise, and precise information is difficult, but BBC Knowledge Explainer does a pretty good job at it. The video above about DNA is a good example of this. It describes what DNA is and does, as … Continue reading
The History Of Genetics
The History of Genetics: From Darwin to the 21st Century: 1859 to 2012. This is a brilliant and informative timeline of the history of genetics, compiled by the Wellcome Library, noting the major advancements and key events which shaped our … Continue reading
