Those of you who read this blog regularly (or not) will likely have picked up that I have something of a passion for things involving citizen science and education-type stuff. So, with that in mind, I present to you ‘science: cryptogenomics - using the “bigfoot genome” for 21st century biology‘. The class is being run […]
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Open course: Science from Superheroes to Global Warming
It’s been a while, dear readers. And how I’ve missed you*. I’ve bought a house, been terrifying myself learning to ride offroad motorcycles on ‘the monster’ (my new bike), got involved in some veeery interesting new projects, and there’s still that damn day job :P Not good excuses, mind, but at least reasons. But! I’ve […]
Sorting algorithms explained through folk dance
Yep, you read that correctly. This morning, I was introduced to the video below - quick-sort as demonstrated through Hungarian folk dancing. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8[/youtube] Hell, even the youtube _comments_ are saner and less nonsensical, so this has GOT to be geeky stuff. It’s also, of course, a very good, and clear, explanation of what’s going on, […]
TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] We’re back! And with a minimum of difficulties this week :) This week, Elf and aimee talk of a new soft motor, ROBOBEES, a teeeeeensy chameleon (squee!), hacking yoghurt, some very ancient art, ROBOBEES, investing in yourself, knitting needles and water bubbles and space, quantum […]
One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that […]
TOSP Episode 13: December 5th 2011
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Another week, another collection of brilliant stuff to talk about. This week, Elf and aimee talk about groups. Well, mostly groups, but also weta, astronomy, learning and why we don’t have a cure for AIDS. As for groups - we look into how StarCraft 2 […]
Spongelab: game based learning
I awoke this morning to a rather epic amount of win. Included in this was an email from Spongelab asking if I’d like to register with them. I did, and I have. For those of you not suffering from attention issues (i.e. who didn’t immediately click on the hyperlink and will never read the rest […]