science

Instapaper Long Reads that Make Hospitals Bearable

February 2, 2011
iPads make hospitals bearable

If you have an iPad or iPhone, a must have app is Instapaper. You install a bookmarklet in your browser, and when you come across a long article that you’d rather read on the go, you click your shortcut and Instapaper pulls just the text and sends it to your phone. Even cooler, you can [...]

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Crohn’s and Hospital Adventures

February 1, 2011
Stuck in the Hospital

This is a pretty personal post that I’m writing more as a PSA than anything else. If you follow any of the Facebook or Twitter feeds, two weeks ago I was stuck in the hospital. I have Crohn’s disease, and I had a flare up. What’s Crohn’s? That’s the first thing I thought when I [...]

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The President Never Misses a Chance to See Cool Robots

October 24, 2010
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‎”I never miss a chance to see cool robots”-President Obama Above is a video of a speech the President gave during the White House’s Science Fair. In attendance were the Mythbusters Adam and Jamie and Bill Nye the Science Guy (it seemed like a sequel to the Preisdent’s STEM speech). Some interesting highlights: Obama said [...]

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137 Years of Popular Science for Free!

March 30, 2010

Search the PopSci Archives | Popular Science. Check it out! Get 137 years of PopSci for free online now.

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Underwater Robot Testing

March 13, 2010

Underwater Robot Test Run from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. Today 16 of the above underwater robots are going to be built by 6th graders, mentored by seniors. The robots have a waterproof camera that goes up to a laptop, so you can explore the ocean. The robots are being built in preparation for BioBlitz in Biscayne National [...]

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Going to the Moon or Grounded on Earth?

February 5, 2010

Check out this video on saving NASA’s Constellation program and Ares rocket (the program that was going to replace the Space Shuttle and take us back to the moon, and then Mars). In his proposed budget Obama wants to raise NASA funding by about 2%, but cut the Constellation program (and basically manned space flight), [...]

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Journey Through The Known Universe

December 17, 2009

Set it to full screen. This reminds me a lot of Power of 10. It’ll also remind you of every question you ever had of life, the universe, and everything. via A Fabulous Journey Through The Known Universe.

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Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation [Article]

December 14, 2009

“Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science.” …only 16 percent of Florida’s high-school graduates take physics, about half the national rate. via Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat.

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