20 Unbelievable TED Talks for Biology Majors. Professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNY. Infographic: 50 Unbelievable Facts About Earth. List of Free Science Books. How do rappers freestyle on the spot? Freestyle rappers such as Eminem and Philadelphia's Cassidy make up and bust out rhymes on the spot — a hugely challenging art form.
Now, however, researchers have learned how the brain does it. A new study finds that when rappers improvise, parts of their brains linked to motivation, organization and integration get active, while portions responsible for self-monitoring and control get quiet. The findings suggest freestyle rappers essentially shut down the parts of their brains that might disrupt their creative flow. 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists. Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists.
But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General. - StumbleUpon. Alternative Energy DIY. Real-Life Chemistry Vol 3 - Physics Vol 1. Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students. By Drs.
Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty, University of Pennsylvania The expression "hands-on, minds-on" summarizes the philosophy we have incorporated in these activities - namely, that students will learn best if they are actively engaged and if their activities are closely linked to understanding important biological concepts. Many of our activities are explicitly aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, as indicated by (NGSS) in the descriptions below and the links to the right. Additional information is provided in Summary Tables and in the Teacher Preparation Notes for these activities.
To accommodate limited budgets, most of our activities can be carried out with minimum equipment and expense for supplies. Additional resources for teaching biology are available at More Minds on Activities for Teaching Biology. KS3 Bitesize: Science. 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive: Scientific American. Undsci.berkeley.edu/lessons/pdfs/complex_flow_handout.pdf. The BBC Teaches Kids About Rocks. Rocks & Weathering is a great animated site produced by the BBC.
The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass. Students "create" rocks by compacting sediment or by adding water to cool lava. After creating rocks, students can then "destroy" rocks by adding elements of weather. Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities.
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I mean, take a look at the Salt and pepper image. Isn’t it cool? Is like you’re eating massive stones and pieces of wood. Next, check out the 50x zoom of human eyelash hairs image. Oh my god, we have some ugly eyelashes! Computer hard disk read/write head. Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More.
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist. Mystery Human Fossils Unearthed in China. An international team of researchers has discovered fossils of a previously unknown Stone Age people in southwest China.
An artist's reconstruction of fossils from two caves in southwest China (Peter Schouten) The fossils are of a people with a highly unusual mix of archaic and modern anatomical features and are the youngest of their kind ever found in mainland East Asia. The discovery is published in the journal PLoS-ONE. “Dated to just 14,500 to 11,500 years old, these people would have shared the landscape with modern-looking people at a time when China’s earliest farming cultures were beginning,” said Dr.
Darren Curnoe, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, and Dr. Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science. The Best of the Best Websites for Science. - StumbleUpon. Index.html. - StumbleUpon. 60-Second Adventures in Thought (combined) Cell Cycle & Cytokinesis - BioChemWeb.org. Cell Cycle Regulation and the Control of Cell Proliferation (Cell Growth + Cell Division) Cell Cycle Research - General resource with links to relevant recent literature, news and job listings.
(Ion Channel Media Group) Cell Division - Undergraduate-level lectures on cell division. (Cell Biology Lectures, Mark Hill, University of New South Wales, Australia) The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Cancer - Introduction to the eukaryotic cell cycle as it relates to the genetics of cancer. (Phillip McClean, North Dakota State University) (Just above Beginner's Level) ICRF FACS Laboratory Cell Cycle Analysis - Methods for cell cycle analysis using flow cytometry. (FACS Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK) The Interactive Fly: Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways (Society for Developmental Biology).
See also the Apoptosis, Cell Senescence and Signal Transduction pages. Edheads - Activate Your Mind! Virtual Museum of Bacteria. How to Grasp Size, Scale and Temperature with Three Giant Infographics. Jun 10, 2010 Here are three fantastic inforgraphics that will blow your mind.
While the visuals help explain the sheer size, depth and temperature of things on our planet and in our Universe. You might feel slightly less significant :) Relatively speaking… Source: Karl Tate from Our Amazing Planet Source: Unknown via Reddit Source: Jess Bachman from Rasmussen College If you enjoyed this article, the Sifter highly recommends: THE ‘GREATEST’ IMAGE EVER. Science Documentary Films. Red Gold. Science Experiments You Can Do At Home or School. About.com: - StumbleUpon. The Geological Society of America. Home page. Strange Science: The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology.