Scientific Literacy with Ms. Ghazarian 2012-2013: January 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013

The Science of Chocolate - Video

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/chemistry/chocolate.html

Cool Jobs: Delving into Dung

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/01/cool-jobs-delving-into-dung/

Sam Wasser’s team has trained dogs to search for the poop of rare animals. Here, a dog named Mason finds maned wolf dung in Brazil.

Credit: Matt Baker

Cool Science for Curious Kids

Brought to you Izzy

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/

http://www.ohiosci.org/

Crime-Solving Camera

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/crime-solving-camera/

A digital camera fitted with the right filters, like the one shown here, can detect only infrared light. The crime-fighting trick can reveal bloodstains hidden behind layers of paint.

Credit: bmcent1/iStockphoto

Discovery News - Is It Future Yet? - Video

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http://news.discovery.com/tech/videos/discovery-news-is-it-future-yet.html?dtc=nws-tech-videobadge-robots

http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/07/25/tactile-robotic-hand-with-air-muscles/

Ice on Mercury

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/12/ice-on-mercury/

This image of Mercury’s north pole region shows areas in shadow (red) according to new MESSENGER data and the location of bright spots (yellow) that are likely exposed ice deposits.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory

DNA - The Double Helix - Interactive

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http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/dna_double_helix/dnahelix.html

http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/graphics/ribbons/help/dna_rgb.html

Why 3D Printing Will Transform Every Industry

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57563759/why-3d-printing-will-transform-every-industry/

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2012/11/30/objet1000-connex-platform-launched-at-euromold/

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Four-Winged Dinosaur

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/11/four-winged-dinosaur/

The hind wings on this four-winged dino helped it navigate tight turns, scientists say in a new study.

Credit: 3-D reconstruction by David Krentz

Amusement Park Physics - Interactive

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http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/index.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/IntroScreen.jpg

Bacteria Learn New Trick

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/bacteria-learn-new-trick/

A decades-long experiment growing E. coli bacteria showed the microbes evolved the ability to eat a new food. Flasks of the germs turned cloudy when the bacteria ate citrate.

Credit: Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela

Cryogenics with Liquid Nitrogen

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http://members.mrtc.com/anvk/cryogenics/cryogenics.html#hero

Math for Hungry Birds

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/05/math-for-hungry-birds/

Scientists have found that when albatrosses forage for food, their flight path looks like a mathematical pattern called a fractal.

Credit: Coedekoven/SWFSC/NOAA

Strong and Slimy

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/01/scientists-spin-threads-from-snotlike-secretions-of-hagfish/

Scientist Atsuko Negishi holds a hagfish in one hand and its slime in the other. She studies the ooze in the lab of materials scientist David Fudge, at far right.

Credit: Andra Zommers/University of Guelph

The Sun Lets Loose a Huge Explosion

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/07/the-sun-lets-loose-a-huge-explosion/#.UPhpgUQqBIh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg

Cool Jobs: Explosive Pursuits

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/11/cool-jobs-explosive-pursuits/

Mining engineer Bibhu Mohanty sets off controlled explosions as part of his job designing blasts that break apart rock. Credit: Bibhu Mohanty

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

My Life As An Elk - Interactive

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http://www.wildlifeart.org/subsites/games/my-life-as-an-elk/

By Tom Boyd Special to The Denver Post

denverpost.com

Ditching Gadgets May Boost Creativity

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http://www.livescience.com/25525-ditching-gadgets-boosts-creativity.html

deakin.edu.au

http://www.deakin.edu.au/research/stories/2011/08/05/ditching-the-gadgets-to-stay-healthy

A Diamond Planet?

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/11/a-diamond-planet/

A drawing of the planet 55 Cancri e, orbiting its parent star with some of its companions. As much as one-third of the planet may be diamond, a new study suggests.

Credit: Haven Giguere

What If A Medical Treatment Could Prevent Criminal Behavior?

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http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2012/11/what-if-a-medical-treatment-could-prevent-criminal-behavior.html

Is It Future Yet? - Video Discovery News

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http://news.discovery.com/videos/discovery-news-is-it-future-yet/?dtc=nws-tech-videobadge-robots

Asimo at a Honda factory

28 April 2011

Vanillase

Shark Week: The Nightmarish Megalodon - Video

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http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/the-nightmarish-megalodon.htm

Megalodon pursuing two Eobalaenoptera whales.

http://www.karencarr.com/tmpl1.php?CID=196

Karen Carr

Fish From Hell! The Worlds Strangest and Bizarre Sea Creatures - YouTube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mderEHfR6K4

http://www.ra-re.org/weird-pictures-the-bizarre-and-strange-pictures/terrifying-deep-water-fish/

Rare Ocelot Photographed Near Sierra Vista

http://azstarnet.com/news/science/environment/article_08a0d78e-3c0d-5225-b6eb-08b3b215c722.html

A rare ocelot rests comfortably on a limb after being treed by dogs Tuesday in Southern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains. See more photos at azstarnet.com/gallery