Well this throws thing off a bit. No worries.
EPS
Here is Mid-Term Review Sheet #3 in Word .doc format or here in .html format
We will continue portfolio reviews on Monday, if we don’t finish (and we won’t) we will do them during midterm week.
Dynamic Earth
Review material in this order…
Chapters 1-4, 9, 8, 10, 11, 5-7
No Quiz Monday!!! But Friday’s Homework is due then!!!
Science Club loves Optical Illusions. This one is a classic. Last year, William K. gave a great explanation of how this works at a club meeting. So I found this online explanation and thought I’d share it.
Amazing skill. I have always admired woodcarvers and one of the greatest was from Ohio.
David Warther, son of the world’s renown master carver Ernest “Mooney” Warther, shows us how to carve (in 10 cuts!) the infamous pliers they give away to all the visiting children to the Warther Museum.
Okay, I’ve never seen a rocket launch like this one. But I want to…
No info on where this is (somewhere in Asia obviously) or what this is, but it’s fun.
Update: So now that the Internet has discovered this video I find that it’s from the 2014 Bamboo Rocket Festival in Yasothon, Thailand. Fun Stuff.
but interesting. German musician Anna-Maria Hefele can sing polyphonically. That is to say, she can sing more than one note at a time. This type of signing is common in certain folk singing styles and the chants of Tibetan Buddhist monks. Very strange stuff.
If you like guitar, then you need to hear Rodrigo y Gabriela. I caught this show on PBS a couple nights ago.
Via: Artists Den
Mathematically speaking, of course.
Presto
Discovered by R.V. Heath in 1950:
Think of two positive integers.
Add them to get a third number.
Add the second number and the third number to get a fourth number.
Continue in this way until you have 10 numbers.
The sum of the 10 numbers is 11 times the seventh number.
via… Futility Closet
Reportedly it is supposed to have been certified by Guinness Book of World Records. Launched on October 10th 2014 in Konosu City, Saitama, Japan. There are two monster shells, one at 2:00 and the record at 3:20, supposedly a 48″ shell. Really cool.
… with a certain sense of style.
German cabinetmaker David Roentgen made some of the most beautiful and intricate furniture ever, and did it in the late 1700’s. Here is his take on a multi-function game table.
If you though that was over the top, check out his writing desk.
Man, this guy liked secret compartments.
As though we need more of those.
When I was a kid, one of the coolest toys I had was a Super Spirograph. It was a bunch of plastic gears that rotated around each other over a piece of paper. You’d put a pen into small holes in the gears and draw complex patterns. Fun stuff, and so 60’s. Here is a really cool online simulator. Check out their online gallery for more images.
I thought this little video was thought provoking. It’s hard to argue with this young man’s points. Stick through to the end though.
This video of July 4 fireworks was shot by a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter outfitted with a GoPro Hero 3 silver in West Palm Beach, Florida. Pretty wild view.
From Chinese artist Cai Qiang at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. This requires microchip timers to get just right.
via: Neatorama
More nuttiness. It’s from the New York Post, so that should tell you something.
Some of you have asked for a list of books I recommend, so here it is.
I posted the teaser trailer for this movie a while back.
It looks interesting. Gizmodo has some speculation on the warp drive element.
Interstellar may be the first movie that shows realistic warp travel
Does technology sometimes make us less human? Does it sometimes keep us from the “important things”? I think so, and so does this guy, a really beautiful little film. Think about it.
Well done.
This one on how many believe in conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy Theory Poll Results
From: Public Policy Polling
Thanks Evan!
I would love to know how they did this. For 1930 this is amazing special effects. The YouTube description is copied below.
Excerpt from a bizarre early stop-motion animation piece featuring Charley Bowers and a metal-eating bird. The creature devours junk from an auto scrapyard, then lays an egg that hatches and grows into a brand new car! Very impressive FX and way before CGI. Directed by Harold L. Muller.
Awesome! I forget who told me this in class (thank you Ramneet) but I am thrilled. I missed the second episode, but was able to watch it in HD on hulu. Here is the link for all three episodes so far….
Links I’ve been meaning to post…
Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The World
What did you do today?
Source of Stonehenge Bluestone Rocks Identified
Pffft! If they had asked a geologist they would have known earlier.
Population of Known Alien Planets Nearly Doubles as NASA Discovers 715 New Worlds
Really quite amazing.
Scientists honor Frank Zappa, naming human zit-causing bacterium now infecting vineyards
Frank would have liked that, I think.
Just for fun, from a Croatian group called 2CELLOS…
Now that was different. AC/DC would approve I think.
