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Kenyan Man Builds Airplane From Scrap « adafruit industries blog - 0 views

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    "Kenyan Man Builds Airplane From Scrap"
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Be a Sport Pilot | Learn To Fly Light Sport Aircraft LSA | Sport Plane | Trikes Weight-... - 0 views

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    Paul Hamilton's interesting and informative site on Sport Pilot, Powered Parachute Pilot and Trike Pilot, as well as the blog "Ask the Expert."
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Worms in Space - 0 views

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    "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."
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75% of the Globe is Water. Right? - Blogs - 0 views

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    "Water: A Chemical Solution. It's a global, yep global, and possibly the biggest ever chemistry experiment. In case you didn't know it already, 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) set to celebrate the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well being of mankind. "
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Math + Video = Success! - 0 views

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    "Whether your students are learning new and difficult math concepts or simple, basic ones, switching up the way you teach it to them can be beneficial. It is exciting to see lessons and concepts taught in a new way that is unlike the traditional. If students have access to the Internet, they can be exposed to some great videos that teach them tutorials or serve as a refresher of concepts they have learned in the classroom. "
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The Biology of Music | Extreme Biology Blog - 0 views

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    "A group of researchers from Duke Medical School, led by a professor named Dale Purves, did research that showed different types of music has different affects on people. Dissonance (a minor type of sound) leads to unpleasant emotion while consonant music (major, happy music) leads to pleasure."
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Faster-than-light neutrino puzzle claimed solved by special relativity | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    "The relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal effect in the OPERA experiment, says physicist Ronald van Elburg at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, The Physics arXiv Blog reports."
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Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Why Mixed Devices? Our aim for using mixed devices was to challenge teachers and students to really integrate technology into their instruction and learning. By having multiple devices available, users are challenged to determine which device best suits their learning purpose, and teachers are also challenged to rethink how they are using technology. "
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Right Question Featured in Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section - 0 views

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    "A question is…a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument."
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Students Report On SOPA, PIPA & ACTA - Getting Smart by Sarah Cargill - edreform, EdTec... - 0 views

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    "SchoolTube video reporting on the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA controversy that threatened the freedom of the Internet in an effort to stop piracy."
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Engineering Toy To Empower Girls - Core77 - 0 views

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    "Sterling was aware that there was a significant gap in the formative space of play. Because of this, she was motivated to spend a year of research with over 100 children in order to develop GoldieBlox: a construction toy for girls."
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » DIY: a maker site for kids - 1 views

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    "DIY is an online club for kids to earn maker skills. Kids (otherwise known as Makers) share their creations and work with a larger online community and collect patches for the skills they learn. Each skill has a set of challenges that help kids learn different techniques and create something fantastic. When a child completes a maker challenge, they can add photos and video to their online portfolio to show off their creation."
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Seth's Blog: N-1 - 0 views

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    "N-1. There are tons of things on your to do list, in your portfolio, on your desk. They clamor for attention and so perhaps you compromise things to get them all done. What would happen if you did one fewer thing? What if leaving that off the agenda allowed you to do a world-class job on the rest? What if you repeated N-1 thinking until you found a breakthrough?"
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Robots with personality | The Tech Museum of Innovation - 0 views

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    "For scientists and engineers in the new social robots field, finding out what gives a robot the appearance of emotion or personality is essential. In the case of these little LEGO walking bots, it is mostly a matter of the way they move. The particular motions and speed create a pattern of movement that we interpret as a personality"
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Clay Water Filters for Ghana » Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog - 0 views

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    "Pure Home Water, Ghana manufactures and distributes AfriClay Filters in an effort to bring clean water to 1 million people. So far they have delivered filters to provide 100,000 people clean water. The process is simple. Water is placed in a clay filter and gravity pulls the water through the pores left in the clay during firing. Sediment and bacteria are filtered out"
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The Wonderbag: How Cooking with Recycled Polystyrene Can Avert Disasters - Core77 - 1 views

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    " Wonderbag. By filling a polycotton bag with recycled polystyrene beads, the duo have created an object that can be safely draped around a pot that has just been brought to boil. The Wonderbag then keeps the pot and its contents hot for hours, without the original heating source. "
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Send Anywhere- share files between mobile ... - 0 views

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    "share photos, videos, contacts or any other file easily with other iPhone/iPad, Android, or website. There is no user account to create, simply enter the one-time key that you are given to receive the files. With Send Anywhere"
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3D Used for Low-Cost Sanitation | The Accelerator - 0 views

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    "additive manufacturing as a means to bring social benefits to the developing world. The students designed Big Red, a 3-D printer that takes shredded plastic waste, melts it, and uses it as its "ink" to print composting toilets and parts for rainwater collection systems"
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Useful Links | The Accelerator - 0 views

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    "Here are some links you may find useful. Wherever possible, we've linked directly to student sections of the websites."
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Helping Limited-Mobility Children Use Touchscreens | The Accelerator - 0 views

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    "Access4Kids with the aim of opening up entertainment, educational benefits and social media available on tablets to children with fine motor impairments. The wireless input device uses a sensor system to translate physical movements into fine-motor gestures to control a tablet."
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