Category: Science Etcetera
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WOW! vs the Intergalactic Space Whale – A Print-and-Play Cooperative Children’s Game
A hungry intergalactic space whale has wandered upon planet WOW! It has vacuumed up all the animals from the Zoo for Endangered Alien Animals. In this co-op game, our young players will assemble a team of superdupers to venture into the whale’s bowels and rescue the animals by matching various, age-appropriate patterns between alien cards.
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Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day 2016 – 3D Modeling with OpenJSCad
What follows here is an outline of activities we did for TODS Day 2016. Hello World! OpenJSCad 3D Modeling Open JS Cad is a programming environment that allows you to build 3D models that you can print. Controls: Rotate XZ: Left Mouse Pan: Middle Mouse or SHIFT + Left Mouse Rotate XY: Right Mouse or…
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Becoming a Science Hedgehog
In his book The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox, Stephen J. Gould talks about scientists falling into two categories, foxes and hedgehogs. I wrote the following summarizing Gould’s metaphor: There are two kinds of inquisitive minds, Hedgehogs and Foxes. In nature, Foxes rely on a wide range of crafty strategies to avoid prey.…
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Hewlett Packard Product Support Angst
I wrote this post several weeks ago, but witheld posting it until there was a conclusion: I’m going to rationalize this post as being related to information technology, and therefore something I can legitimately blog. I simply don’t have any other recourse for the incredible frustrations I am feeling towards HP’s Product support for the…
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Clarifying the Science Behind Global Cooling
“It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.” – Frederick Mosteller Global Cooling Trend Close-Up of Last Decade Yesterday I posted this image of what climatologists are claiming is evidence of warming in the last decade, and explained how it actually shows a cooling trend; however, it has come…