 | Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life A brief overview of science and research education in Second Life, highlighting Science School, Genome Island, Research Park, ISTE Island and more. |
 | Conspiracy of Science - Earth is in fact boring My thoughts on the video I'm responding to, and the on-going troll war in the comments of it. PLEASE NOTE: EXPANDING EARTH THEORY WAS NOT CREATED BY NEAL ADAMS, IT WAS CREATED BY SAMUEL WARREN CAREY, FOUNDING PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Warren_Carey Sorry for the caps, but the dismissal of the theory based on Adams' position without society tends towards tediousness and pseudo-intellectualism.. and also signifies my disdain for how some people, who consider themselves scientific, act. The original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI Neal Adam's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nealadamsdotcom Continental Drift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics Dark Matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter Origins of water on planet Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth Ironically, it talks about Earth as it was billions of years ago (40% smaller radius). |
 | Sorting out Sorting This is the classic video for every computer science student. "Sorting out Sorting" is made in the 80's by Dr. Ronald Baecker from University of Toronto. It's 12x fast forwarded so that you are not bored to death :) By the way, I think the background alien-liked music should be nominated for the best music award in grammy~ :D (no kidding) |
 | SJSU SLIS Second Life Campus San José State University's School of Library & Information Science uses Second Life to augment its distance learning offerings. |
 | Nanowires and Nanocrystals for Nanotechnology Google Tech Talks September 12, 2006 Yi Cui is an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Technology Review World Top 100 Young Innovator Award. He received his PhD degree from Harvard University working with Prof. Charles Lieber. He received his B.S. degree from Univ of Science and Technology of China. ABSTRACT Nanowires and nanocrystals represent important nanomaterials with one-dimensional and zero-dimensional morphology, respectively. Here I will give an overview on the research about how these nanomaterials impact the critical applications in faster transistors, smaller nonvolatile memory devices, efficient... |
 | An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run--time environment variability will make these problems much harder. We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures. Speaker: Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Manchester Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. |
 | The Evolution of Religions Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004). Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years. |
 | Quantum physics and Consciousness ... connected? Take a look down the Rabbit Hole. Some short clips of some of the film 'what the bleep do we know - quantum edition'. Controversial film, I know, but very thought provoking none-the-less. Our beliefs about who we are, and what is real, are not simply observations, but rather form ourselves and our realities. featuring many academics from all areas of science; http://www.whatthebleep.com/scientists/ -William Tiller, Professor Emeritus of Material Science and Engineering at Stanford University -Dr. Amit Goswami. Worked with Deepak Chopra and is employed by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. -Dr. John Hagelin, Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management, professor of physics at MUM since 1984, and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace. -Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist, author, and associate director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona -Dr. Andrew Newberg, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and physician in nuclear medicine -Dr. David Albert, a philosopher of physics and professor at Columbia University. -Miceal Ledwith, author and former professor of theology at Maynooth College in Ireland; Daniel Monti, physician and director of the Mind-Body Medicine Program at Thomas Jefferson University -Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, well known psychiatrist, author and professor. |
 | EE290f - Lecture 27: Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering for Studying Nanoscale Materials - given by Prof. Stephen Kevan, University of Oregon EE 290F Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Science Applications (Sp 07) Lecture 27 - Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering for Studying Nanoscale Materials - given by Prof. Stephen Kevan, University of Oregon |
 | The Great Global Warming Swindle - Produced by WAGTV PRODUCED by WAGTV Available from NiceneCouncil.com "An absolutely phenomenal documentary." Glenn Beck, Syndicated talk show host Everything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to news reports from the popular media outlets and even public classrooms which, in chicken little fashion, are screaming - the sky is falling. But is it really? This documentary, which contraditcs these claims and has been described by some as the most explosive film of the year and the definitive answer to Al Gore features interviews from some of the Worlds leading scientists, climatologists and former environmentalist like: * Dr. John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama * Dr. Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, University of London * Dr. Paul Reiter, IPCC & Pasteur Instititue, Paris * Dr. Roy Spencer, Principle Research Scientist University of Alabama * Dr. Patrick Michaels, Department of Environmental Science, University of Virginia * Dr. Syun-lchi Akasofu, Director, International Arctic Research Center * Dr. Fredrick Singer, First Director, U.S. National Weather Satellite Service * Dr. Richard Lindzen, IPCC & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) * Dr. Tim Ball, Former Professor of Climatology, University of Winnepeg * Dr. Niz Shaviv, Professor of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Dr. Ian Clark, Professor Department of Earth Sciences, Univertisy of Ottawa * Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Green Peace * Dr. Paul Driessen, author of Eco-Imperalism: Green Power Black Death The Great Global Warming Swindle blows the whistle on what may be the biggest swindle in modern history. Proponets of man made global warming warn that climate change is the greatest threat ever to mankind, and, if we do not change our ways and reduce CO2 emissions - polar ice caps will melt, coastal areas will flood and hurricane like Katrina will become common. With nearly Gestapo like tactics we are commanded not to question the edicts of the ICCP (oops, sorry, the IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). There is absolutely no room for doubt because there is a "scientific consensus." Anyone who questions the data or conclusion is an enemy of the state and humanity. Well, this is exactly what this well documented film does! Our challenge - watch this film and make up your own mind. "The Great Global Warming Swindle should be seen by everyone interested in the global enviroment, especially those who have seen the Al Gore movie." Professor William M. Gray, meterologist |
 | The Science and Art of User Experience at Google Google TechTalks June 7, 2006 Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google's user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google's many products. A founding member of Google's UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google's Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer... |
 | Life Cycle of a Hurricane The Imaging Research Center in collaboration with David Stroud of GEST and the OIT New Media Studio, conducted an Internet2 Netcast featuring Dr. Jeffrey Halverson of JCET on the "Lifecycle of a Hurricane." This interactive presentation linked the IRC and the University of Pennsylvania over Internet2. An audience of science teachers (grades 6-8) interacted with Dr. Halverson as he delivered a dynamic presentation on the development and evolution of hurricanes. This was followed by John Leck of NASA who discussed how teachers can use NASA science data such as this in the classroom. The Netcast was part of a grant that the Franklin Institute has with the NSF on using Internet2 and research data for professional development of K-12 STEM education. The presentation is a great example of STEM outreach and portends some additional exciting opportunities for both teacher professional development and student engagement in STEM. |
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