Delaware Today
This is a piece for Delaware Today about young girls losing interest in science, technology, engineering and math related studies. The state’s schools and businesses are hoping to turn all this around.
Two for Tuesday: Ingenuity + Wood
Paul Grundbacher Gates Foundation offers $100,000 for better condom
Computer simulated pyramidal neurons
This computer simulated image was created using software called the ‘TREES toolbox’, which allows scientists to generate neuronal structures indistinguishable from those found in the real biological brain. This image shows synthetic neurons that represent the optimized size, shape and connectivity of pyramidal neurons analogous to those found in the cortex of the brain. Pyramidal neurons are so-called because they
Evolution Genesis and Revelations
I may have mentioned before that I used to be a devoutly religious Creationist. I earnestly believed that evolution was a trick Satan used to lead people away from Christ just as I was taught from an early age. I was so convinced that I refused to participate in any conversation that might attempt to change my mind, often resorting
Hunting the Hidden Dimension – Nova
Find out how fractal geometry is used to measure and analyze coast lines, rivers, weather and other natural phenomena, how fractals are helping doctors detect heart issues and cancer earlier, and make just about everything better from movies and games to textiles, art and communications. “For generations, scientists believed that the wildness of nature could not be defined by mathematics
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Two for Tuesday – Type II: The Mandelbrot Set
http://youtu.be/yRHlFJhs0D4 Atheist rapper, Greydon Square has released his new album, Type II: The Mandelbrot Set. Get it here:
Synchronicity – F. David Peat, PhD
Shared from The Primer Project Synchronicity, The Bridge Between Matter and Mind – by F. David Peat, PhD (Excerpted by Tom Mandel for fair use) ——————————————————————————– SYNCHRONICITY: Meaningful coincidence, significantly related patterns of chance. Each of us is faced with a mystery. We are born into this universe, we grow up, work, play, fall in love, and at the ends
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth from Berkeley Arts and Letters on FORA.tv
MIT – Cleaning up oil spills with magnets
Science can fix that!
Evolution
Fractal exploration = a hands-on lesson in evolution
Sponge spicules
Spicules from a sponge found in South African waters. Courtesy of Miranda Waldron via FEI Company