The Guardian paints a fascinating, chaotic, and terrifyingly feasible, picture of the future of journalism.
(via The Dish).
Category: video
Want to See Your DNA?
NOVA shows how you can see your own DNA at home. (Learn.Genetics has more details about why it works.)
Taylor Mali: Humorous Anecdotes from a Teacher
(hat tip: Mrs. D. our head of school).
Hearing Color
Master and Apprentice
Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker from Etsy on Vimeo.
This video, contains some fascinating reflections from, Korehira Watanabe, one of the few remaining traditional sword makers in Japan.
Particularly intriguing is Watanabe’s somewhat counter-intuitive need to keep exploring new challenges in swordmaking, so that he might keep the ancient traditions alive. He’s also very interested in instilling the same type of drive in his disciple, with the hope that his disciple will someday surpass him.
I personally find this to be a quite appropriate perspective for a teacher.
Scale of the Universe: 62 Orders of Magnitude (1062)
In a modern variant on the Powers of Ten video, Cary and Michael Huang have created an excellent flash game that spans the scale of the universe, from the smallest, only hypothesized particles, through atomic, human, planetary, and galactic scales (to name a but a few), to the size of the universe itself. It goes further than the Cell Size and Scale flash app.
The link is here, but look out for an advertisement that takes up the game window, which will eventually let you through (or you can click the “Skip Ad” link on the bottom right of the ad).
Modeling the Universe
A wonderful explanation of why scientists create computer models of the universe (and how it’s done); it’s a bit like the solar nebula model writ large.
(via The Dish).
How Google Works
One of the librarians at Washington University played this video for our students. It was a great supplement to their lesson on how to use the internet for research.