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"International Space Station Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Dan Tani discusses and demonstrates Newton's laws. You can mix and mash these video clips with NASA images and your own narration, original video, special effects and transitions. Preview the video and download the clips you want to use in your own project."

"The Opportunity The ThinkQuest International Competition challenges students to solve a problem using their critical thinking, communication, and technology skills. Use the latest technologies and your brainpower to create an entry that demonstrates your skills on an international stage!"

"Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner, best known for his discovery of penicillin"

"This video was contributed as part of the Free Tech for Teachers-Next Vista for Learning 90-Second Video Contest in the spring of 2011."

"This video was a finalist for the 2011 Macworld-Next Vista for Learning 60-Second Video Contest."

"an experiment to determine whether corn ear worms can survive or the pupation rate affected by a zero gravity space flight, with the ultimate purpose of being utilized in some capacity in an interplanetary colonizing. We have created this blog to allow our students the opportunity to comment and keep up with what each school is doing regarding this experiment."

The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. SETI maintains a Youtube channel with videos featuring lectures and education on some of SETI's project, including the Allen Telescope Array.

"In the 3rd century BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth to high precision."

"The Noon Day Project Measuring the Circumference of the Earth The Goal of the Noon Day Project is to have students measure the circumference of the earth using a method that was first used by Eratosthenes over 2000 years ago. Students at various sites around the world will measure shadows cast by a meter stick and compare their results. From this data students will be able to calculate the circumference of the earth."

Tim wasn't supposed to be a comedian. A biologist by training, he graduated magna cum laude from UC San Diego with honors in biology. He went on to complete his PhD at UC Davis. He spent years developing simulation and analytical models of population dynamics

"Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. LifeSaver bottle and gerry can

"It depends on what you define as "electricity". Do you mean the flow of "electrons" or the flow of "current"? Because, due to an unfortunate quirk of history, the direction of *current* flow is opposite to the direction of *electron* flow. "

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"Teaching and Learning About Hurricanes"

"scientists at Dalhousie University, concludes that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth. The team analyzed the numerical relationship between species, genus, family and order in well-studied life-forms and used that pattern to estimate the number of species in categories of life that haven't been well studied. Some scientists argue that that almost surely underestimates some lesser-known classes of life. Only some 1.25 million species have been described in the 253 years since Linnaeus devised the method we use to name them. This means that if there are, indeed, roughly 8.7 million species over all, nearly 90 percent of the species on Earth have not yet been discovered and described. "

"Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium (solid, liquid, or gas) at a wave speed which depends on the elastic and inertial properties of that medium. There are two basic types of wave motion for mechanical waves: longitudinal waves and transverse waves. The animations below demonstrate both types of wave and illustrate the difference between the motion of the wave and the motion of the particles in the medium through which the wave is travelling."

" The BioDigital Human is an HTML5 bases platform for medicine and healthcare. Using 3-D, Web-GL visualization the BioDigital Human serves as an interactive tool for medical students to access complex human anatomy in a simple web browser. The surgical and disease-state animations embedded into the interface provide an interactive visual-aid for medical device and pharmaceutical sales reps to explain medical concepts to healthcare practitioners. As anatomical landmarks are paired with embedded education, instructive and training information, the BioDigital Human is the most intuitive way for data groups to organize and navigate medical information. "

"Cool Stuff to do @ Home The activities are a part of The Tech's new IDEA (Innovation, Design, Exploration Activities) kits. They're a new endeavor for us here in the Programs Department, and we need your help and insight to make the kits program bigger, better, and more fun."