Apps for Educators
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Scientific publishing
The thrills and the perils of pursuing the unknown… Continue reading Scientific publishing
Nature’s call
300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside Bangladesh, has reduced open defecation from 19% to 3% in just two years by decentralising sanitation programmes Nearly half of India’s 1.2 billion people have no toilets at home Everyday 200,000 tonnes of human feces are deposited in India, left in the open References Guardian: Lack of toilets puts India’s health and rural women’s safety at risk … Continue reading Nature’s call
Composers of Western Classical Music – Visualised
I was looking for a timeline of composers of western classical music right from Hildegaard Von Bingen but I could not find an interactive one on the web. However,I found the following: Classical.net lists the major composers in its timeline in PDF format Classicfm has a much nicer timeline but it does not show all the composers. Media and text on a particular composer is included in … Continue reading Composers of Western Classical Music – Visualised
Publish or Perish
The conversation When ‘exciting’ trumps ‘honest’, traditional academic journals encourage bad science By Robert de Vries, University of Oxford Imagine you’re a scientist. You’re interested in testing the hypothesis that playing violent video games makes people more likely to be violent in real life. This is a straightforward theory, but there are still many, many different ways you could test it. First you have to … Continue reading Publish or Perish
Determining Mixing Volumes
How many pints of each 2 percent and 7 percent acid solutions must be mixed to obtain 50 pints of a 5 percent solution? A Video response to the question from Socratic.org. File can be downloaded here (Dropbox Folder). Related Concentration Picket fence 1 Picket fence 2 Learn ChemE Continue reading Determining Mixing Volumes
Boiling point of alkanes
This is a video response to a question from Socratic.org: http://socratic.org/questions/how-does-linear-regression-work-in-excel-2013 You can download the xlsx workbook here (Dropbox Folder) Continue reading Boiling point of alkanes
What is life ? A 21st century perspective
Craig Venter: I was asked earlier whether the goal is to dissect what Schrödinger had spoken and written, or to present the new summary, and I always like to be forward-looking, so I won’t give you a history lesson except for very briefly. I will present our findings on first on reading the genetic code, and then learning to synthesize and write the genetic code, … Continue reading What is life ? A 21st century perspective
Wars – a blight on humanity
Millions of lives were lost in the civil wars. For men may come and men may go, wars seem to go on for ever. Read more from ‘The Economist’. Europe’s arms trade Related Drone strikes Continue reading Wars – a blight on humanity
Achieving childhood dreams
Randy Pausch’s talk on achieving his dreams. Towards the end of the talk Randy says that we can not do it all alone and we need help there: tell the truth be earnest apologise when you screw up focus on others, not yourself don’t bail; the best gold is at the bottom of barrels of crap get a feedback look and listen to it.The hard part is … Continue reading Achieving childhood dreams
Perpetual Motion of Thought 