Seeking the warm spot: My nonlinear career path in science writing and education - 0 views
Physics Buzz: Snakes on an Inclined Plane - 0 views
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Snakes actively adjust their friction, Marvi explained, by modifying the relative angle between their scales and the surface, to adjust the levels of friction according to their needs. Marvi and his colleagues adopted these principles to create Scalybot, an artificial robot designed to climb inclined planes. Scalybot contains scale-like teeth along the bottom of its body, and these teeth can raise or lower depending on what it needs to do to navigate the environment.
Day 108: Real or Fake? - Noschese 180 - 0 views
Life is a digital code - 0 views
Angry Birds with real slingshot - 0 views
The Scientific Method is wrong: Scientists don't test hypotheses, but build m... - 0 views
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In the real world of scientific investigation, she said, scientists usually rely on a model-based process rather than a hypothesis-driven one. They formulate models based on what they know from previous research and then derive testable hypotheses from those models. Data from experiments don’t validate or invalidate hypotheses as much as they feed back into the models to generate better research questions.
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) - 1 views
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has a cool looking case study on Red Bull for macromolecules. plus lots of other case study ideas for mini-research projects for students. includes lab handouts, answer keys, etc.
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This looks like an interesting site to include in a project-based approach to teaching. The cases may lend themselves well to interdisciplinary work and more extensive projects that will interest students. Let me know what the CFT can do to help.
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Awesome collection of case studies for science teaching.
Dropbox -Rube Goldberg resources - 0 views
Period Table Table by Theo Gray - 1 views
Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy | Brain Pickings - 0 views
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Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct prevails and the result, an orderly procession of papers, advances the perimeter of knowledge, step by laborious step. Great scientific minds partake of that daily discipline and can also suspend it, yielding to the sheer love of allowing the mental engine to spin free. And then Einstein imagines himself riding a light beam, Kekule formulates the structure of benzene in a dream, and Fleming’s eye travels past the annoying mold on his glassware to the clear ring surrounding it — a lucid halo in a dish otherwise opaque with bacteria — and penicillin is born. Who knows how many scientific revolutions have been missed because their potential inaugurators disregarded the whimsical, the incidental, the inconvenient inside the laboratory?”
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