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Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Fun Dry Ice Experiments!
Playing with 20 pounds of dry ice! There are a lot of awesome tricks to do with considerable quantities of dry ice, here are some of my favorite.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
~~ Pakistan Successfully Tested Babur Cruise Missile ~~
Pakistan on Thursday test fired a Babur cruise missile, a missile which has been a development of NESCOM. Pakistan’s Babur cruise missile with a max range of 700 KM, and subsonic speed is a deadly missile which rivals the Indian BrahMos cruise missile. The missile has the capability of remaining in the terrain hugging mode while being highly maneuverable with pin point accuracy. Babur cruise missile can carry either strategic or conventional warheads. The test was witnessed by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Khalid Shamim Wynne along with other senior officers from the armed forces. Officers from strategic organizations, scientists and engineers were also present. Wynne reiterated that the test will go a long way in consolidating Pakistan’s strategic deterrence capabilities, and further strengthening security. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also congratulated the scientists and engineers on the success of the test.
The missile test was a normal procedure for the continuous validating of the system.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
~~ Sega Rally Arcade Review ~~
This review is for Sega Rally Online Arcade.
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega
Platform: Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade
Price: 800 Microsoft Points (Xbox 360), Playstation 3 TBC
Monday, October 24, 2011
~~ What Happen When You Drop Something ~~
With High Definition, Watch What Happens When You Drop Something on Floor.
~~ Melt Metal Easily ~~
Have you ever dreamed of melting a metal with nothing more than your fingers?
Gallium is a fun metal capable of breaking down to a liquid at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Let's take a look at it and see what kinds of fun we can have with it.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
~~ Folding Concrete ~~
New innovation in construction. Now you can place these concrete sheets anywhere and make a room anywhere you want... really amazing...
Friday, October 14, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
~~ Steve Jobs Died ~~
~~ Steve Jobs Is Dead ~~
Steve
Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal
computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market
products passed away today. We're going to miss him. Deeply, and personally.
Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle
with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We mourn his passing,
and wish his family the very best.
Let's address this up front: Gizmodo and Steve Jobs had, at best, a
tumultuous relationship. Yet no matter how much he may have hated us, we
admired him.
No, that's not quite right. We loved him.
He was the reason many of us got into this industry, or even care
about technology at all. He made the computer personal, and the
smartphone fun. Bill Gates may have put a computer on every office desk,
but it was Steve Jobs who put one in every dorm room and bedroom and
living room. And then, years later, he repeated the trick, putting one
in every bag and every pocket, thanks to the iPad and iPhone. If you use
a computer or smartphone today, it is either one he created, or an
imitation of his genius.
He changed the way movies are made, the way music is sold, the way
stories are told, the very way we interact with the world around us. He
helped us work, and gave us new ways to play. He was a myth made man.
Prior to Steve Jobs, computers were alien to most of us. They were
accessible to few people without an engineering degree. Not merely
because of their complex operating procedures, but also because they
were so cold and so inhuman. Jobs understood that they could be
something more than that. That while computers would never be people, he
could endow them with humanity. He could transform them into machines
that not only anyone could use, but that everyday people would enjoy
using thanks to the art of great design. He made them something that
would be part of our lives. And he did that again and again.
His life story is familiar, but it deserves repeating. He was given
up for adoption by his unmarried parents. He grew up in California, and
was very much a product of that place and time. He took drugs. He got
into phone hacking. Both were precursors to what would always be his
interest: changing the status quo.
In 1976 he started Apple in a garage. Together with Steve Wozniak, he
shipped the first true fully-built personal computer, the Apple I. He
drove development of the Mac, understanding that it was the future of
computers. The great thing that we would all see. He brought in a grown
up to run the company. And that grown up forced him out of the company
that he built and into the wilderness.
While he was gone, he started NeXT computer. The NeXT operating system would form the underpinnings of Apple's OS X, and iOS.
He also started the best movie studio of the past 30 years. Pixar's
films were innovative, to be sure. It pushed the boundaries of CGI to
such an extent that even today its early films still look great. But
technology is only a tool. As with everything else he understood that
great technology alone is not enough. It must be human to have an
impact. Pixar movies tell stories. They make grown men cry. That was the
impact of Steve Jobs.
He became a family man. He reunited with his biological mother, and
his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. He married. He had children. He
was, by all accounts, a great dad. It was his role as husband and father
that helped drive his second act at Apple.
After his return to Apple, the company began shipping iconic product
after iconic product. Products that defined a decade. The iMac, OS X,
the iPod, iTunes (which was very good, before it was very bad), the
iPhone, the iPad. All of these were deeply human products. They
reflected his understanding of how technology was used not only in the
workplace, but in the home. In his keynotes, product demos typically
showed not executives, but families.
He made Apple into the most valuable company in the world.
He never met his biological father.
He accomplished so many things, in so many fields that it's tempting
to compare Jobs to someone from the past. A Thomas Edison or a Ben
Franklin or even a Leonardo Da Vinci. We tend to do that because it
helps us understand. But it does him a disservice. He was unique. His
own person. Our own person.
He was our emblematic genius. In 100 years, when historians talk
about the emergence of the age of intelligent machines, it is Steve Jobs
they will hold up as the great exemplar of our era.
They will remember his flaws, too. When Atari hired Jobs and Woz to write the code for the iconic Atari game Breakout,
the pair earned a $5000 bonus for completing the work, largely done by
Woz. But Jobs kept the bonus a secret, and only paid his partner $375.
When his daughter Lisa was born in 1978, he spent two years denying he
was her father. His denials forced her and her mother to support
themselves on welfare. In the workplace he's often been described as
temperamental and even petulant. He could be arrogant and unforgiving.
He was not a god. He was simply a man.
Yet for all his faults, he changed the world. He made it better.
He once famously asked of a critic "what have you done that's so great?" For Jobs, the answer to that question was very nearly unlimited.
Our world will be less interesting, less exciting, and less meaningful without him.
Goodbye, Mr. Jobs. We will miss you so very much.
copied from: gizmodo.com
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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