A group of students in the UK invented a disappearing/reappearing nail polish. To get around the ‘no make up in school rule’ they worked with the local University to create a nail polish that was visible when struck with UV light (outside the classroom) but went almost clear when in the hallowed halls of education.
A science teacher from Harlem will be spending eight weeks in Antarctica this coming fall to help get American students, and particularly more minority students, excited about science.
A recent survey reported on by ABC news reveals that nearly half of all Australians are below the acceptable benchmark for understanding their own language. I touched on this data in a previous post, where I expressed astonishment in the size of that number. In a press release I read today Frontier College, Canada’s original [...]
The University of Waterloo is turning Minota Hagey dormitory into a 70-bed think tank for upper year students to collaborate on Web, mobile, and digital media applications. A $400,000 upgrade will see the residence get Wi-Fi, server space, increased bandwidth, a 12-foot projection screen, a mobile device lab and a corporate-style boardroom. The new facilities [...]
Renewable-energy assessment company 3Tier released a map that depicts the wind “resources” around the world. Their work as shown that more than 40 percent of the world’s land mass has wind speed of more than 6 meters per second, however much of that land is not open to development. The data indicates that there’s potential [...]
The BBC has created a website, World on the Move, that uses Google Maps to track animal migrations across the planet. The layout and information is impressive, and they say it will only get better as more data is added to the system (including user sightings).
