What object is 55 feet wide, weighs 10,000 tons and crashes into the Earth once every 100 years? You should be thinking about the meteorite that plummeted into Russia and injured nearly 1000 people on Friday. This large impact occurred the same day an unrelated asteroid was supposed to pass close by the Earth. Quick Facts from NASA The Impact …
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Unplug Your Mind 2: Humans Create Infinity
Welcome to the 2nd entry of the Unplug Your Mind series. It might be hard to convince the US congress that money should be spent on simply awing the minds of people around the world. So I will attempt to do that without sending the US government further into a fiscal catastrophe. Here is a clip that explains how technology …
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The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck – by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo.
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Many people here on Earth are waiting for the news that NASA has discovered life on Mars or any other planet within reach. What we should anticipate is the news that humans have delivered life through terraform to a barren planet like Mars!
Read More »Cytoplasmic Streaming Flash Mini Game
The process of organelles and nutrients rapidly moving around a plant or fungal cells is known as cytoplasmic streaming. Just as water is constantly moving in a lake that we may never notice, organelles are constantly moving inside of plant and fungal cells. I have created flash mini game to streamline learning about how cytoplasmic streaming transports nutrients around a cell. Transporting Nutrients (Flash …
Read More »Honoring Neil Armstrong Contest
Help honor the life and legacy of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, who passed away at the age of 82.
Read More »Human Space Stations: ISS vs MIR, Salyut, SkyLab
Since the space race between the Soviet Union and United States in the late 1950’s, the prospects of humans creating habitats and living in space has been quite eccentrically portrayed by movies as warring intergalactic societies or even as highly advanced spacecraft supporting cryogenically frozen crew members. How close have humans come to the glamor of Hollywood? Here is a list of the major habitats humans have …
Read More »The Stages of Mitosis Simplified
In the grand scheme of cellular life the stages of mitosis are responsible for the regeneration of cells in the exact form as its predecessor or parent cell.
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