Your Age On Other Worlds Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) Click on the "Calculate" button. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman
Brainteaser Quizzes Read this...bet you CAN!Weakest Link Brainteaser TestBrainteaser Quiz 1 Brainteaser Quiz 2 Brainteaser Quiz 3 Brainteaser Quiz 4 Back to Brainteasers & Riddles Index The phaonmneel pweor of the hmuan mnid: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearcr at Cmagbride Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers of a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Weakest Link Brainteaser Test Brainteaser Quiz #2! Great Brainteaser Quiz #3! How did you do? Brainteaser Quiz #4 Quiz for people who know everything: Back to Quizzes Back to Riddles & Brainteasers
An Extreme Reading of Facebook | OAC Press Working Papers Series #5 ISSN 2045-5763 (online) An Extreme Reading of Facebook Daniel Miller University College London © 2010 Daniel Miller Open Anthropology Cooperative Press www.openanthcoop.net/press Forum discussion in the OAC network. I welcome the development of internet forums such as the Open Anthropology Cooperative and Medianth. The publication these excerpts are taken from is called Tales from Facebook (Polity April 2011). The three propositions I propose to push to more extreme lengths here are as follows: 1) That Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science. 2) That Facebook is a medium for developing a relationship to god. 3) That Facebook, like Kula, is an ideal foundation for a theory of culture mainly because Facebook and Kula are practically the same thing. I am optimistic that academics will find grounds for disagreement with these three assertions. Proposition one – Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science.
18 ways to educate yourself every day (because nerds are sexy) « ♥ Malavika ♥ “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” At the start of this year I made a decision that I want to commit to myself to a pursuit of intellect. Wow, I did not just say that. 1. “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.” 2. They are quick, easy, informative, and give you a glimpse of a subject that you may decide to do more research on later! A lovely reader recommended the podcasts “Stuff you should know” and “Stuff mom never told you” which can be found on the website. 3. This is such a monumental suggestion. 4. Focus more at work. 5. Well, it should already be fun that you are taking the time to invest in yourself and learning more about your world – but you know how you could make it more fun? 6. This could be jigsaw puzzles, riddles, math puzzles etc. 7. 8. Work on your vocabulary whilst simultaneously feeding the hungry! 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
Resources for teaching medical anthropology With the school year approaching, many academic blogs have featured posts about teaching. We’ve run a few of these over the past years, including a number of syllabi related to medical anthropology. You can see them all by clicking on the “Teaching Resources” category in the sidebar, but I’ve also gathered the best of them here — along with a number of health + social science teaching resources from other sites. We’re always looking for more teaching resources to share, so if you have a syllabus or course design that has worked particularly well–or a resource that we’ve missed, get in touch with us at admin@somatosphere.net. Somatosphere posts Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus This course looks at current trajectories in medical anthropology theory. Eugene Raikhel, Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry Chris Garces, Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study Eugene Raikhel, Teaching Anthropology of the Body
12 great free online courses Much ado has been made in recent years over the quickly rising cost of healthcare in the United States. But the cost of college tuition and fees has skyrocketed at nearly twice that rate. Going to college today will cost a student 559% more than it did in 1985, on average. In an exciting talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Stanford professor Daphne Koller explains why she was inspired — alongside fellow professor Andrew Ng — to create Coursera, which brings great classes from top universities online for free. When she spoke at TED Global, Coursera offered classes from four top colleges — Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania — but in July, Coursera announced that they had increased to 16 participating colleges, including five of the schools considered the top 10 in the country by the U.S. Inspired by Young, below, find 12 courses you could take for a completely free TED degree in Big Ideas. Photo: ShutterStock
The Thesis Whisperer Should We Clone Neanderthals? The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles The 50,000-year-old skull of a Neanderthal from the site of Shanidar in Iran (top) has a prominent browridge and more projecting face than the 40,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull found at Pestera cu Oase in Romania. (Erik Trinkaus) If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. The first studies of Neanderthal DNA focused on the genetic sequences of mitochondria, the microscopic organelles that convert food to energy within cells. In addition to giving scientists the ability to answer questions about Neanderthals' relationship to our own species--did we interbreed, are we separate species, who was smarter--the Neanderthal genome may be useful in researching medical treatments. Putting the fragments themselves in order can be a little tricky.