science

6/28/10 Gil's LotD

http://cmsweb.cern.ch/phedex/prod/Activity::RatePlots?view=global Graphs of the data being transferred around the world from the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

6/20/10 Gil's LotD

http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/logarithmic.html A timeline of human history set on a logarithmic scale.

5/27/10 Gil's LotD

http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/getting_started.html How to get access to the data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

4/10/07 Gil's LotD

4/10/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQRv0RjBBM Kermit the Frog's cover of "Hurt."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fredmeyer_edit_1.jpg Photo of a supermarket.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html A very comprehensive reference page for constants.

4/2/07 Gil's LotD

4/2/07 Gil's LotD
http://mapofscience.com/ An
interactive map showing all the connections between the different branches
of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoezelen
The Snoezelen is a room designed for children with severe mental
disabilities and features soothing (read trippy) visual stimulation.
http://www.papertrail.com/mountain_of_toilets.jpg
lol, toilet mountain

3/27/07 Gil's LotD

http://lepouya.com/dhtml/longcat.html Make your own longcat, although its missing the 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndbzw60fiYU Liquid nitrogen demos are old hat, this guy has solid nitrogen. Very cool demo.

3/10/07 Gil's LotD

http://downloads.khinsider.com/pokemon Download the soundtracks from Pokemon games.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/?img_id=14126 A picture of the Northeastern US after a snowstorm.

3/1/07 Gil's LotD

http://scienceroll.com/2006/12/09/the-youngest-mother-ever/ A bit of background on the youngest mother ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toys_for_Tots_parade_Philadelphia_2002.jpg Motorcycles on an urban interstate in Philadelphia.

2/18/07 Gil's LotD

http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N64/64largenumber.html Two professors have a duel to find the largest number.
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/ Online physics demos!

2/9/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-beat-your-children-at-computer-games A guide for parents on learning how to beat your children at video games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVPjuiABp_E A music video for a song about Werner Von Braun by Tom Lehrer.
http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html A list of the top 100 advertising campaigns.

2/4/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlyZYofzR8 Bearsuit - Steven Fing Spielberg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4UAUs_KhPg An unofficial music video to Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games by Of Montreal. It's pretty trippy.
http://medialoper.com/my-life-as-an-rss-junkie/ The story of an addict to RSS. I still have a ways to go to catch up with this guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(Quaking_Aspen) Pando is the largest and oldest living organism and a giant aspen tree in Utah.

1/28/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/dining/17chow.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin A New York times article about the changing fish population in New England and its effects on local chowder. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHOWDER?
http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have A little quiz to determine your English accent (for Americans, that is).

1/16/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2688/how-come-if-you-dig-down-far-enough-you-hit-water An explanation of how the water table works.
http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/midi.html The midichlorian counts of various Star Wars characters.

1/11/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc A satirical Canadian public service show about how spiders react to various drugs.
http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm Another page about spiders on drugs.

1/2/07 Gil's LotD

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/ The Etherkiller's homepage: one end plugs in the wall, the other your Ethernet card.
http://www.innocentive.com/ Innocentive is a site for businesses to offer rewards for solutions and for scientists to search for problems so they can try and find a solution.

12/28/06 Gil's LotD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics) Jerk is the rate of change of acceleration.
http://www.churchhopping.com/ten-verses-never-preached-on/ Ten strange Biblical verses.

12/23/06 Gil's LotD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king Rat kings are plague rats which grow into a giant rat joined at the tail.

12/15/06 Gil's LotD

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/11/make_video_podcast_make_y.html Instructions on how to use Blender, an open source 3D modeling program to make origami versions of 3D computer models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loue The Loue river in France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area_National_Wildlife_Refuge Wikipedia's page on a wildlife refuge in Iowa home to an endangered type of snail from the ice age.

12/13/06 Gil's LotD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo A cool physics demonstration video of the Ruben's tube.
http://www.oppositionart.com/sphere.htm It's a giant ball of cameras and screens that lets you see through to the other side.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6161480.stm A plaque has been placed to honor Sir Edward Corey, a bacon pioneer.

12/2/06 Gil's LotD

http://reluctantnomad.blogspot.com/2006/09/insults-they-just-dont-make-them-as.html Great insults from historical figures.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/ It's already over, yes the queue is quite long, but for all of November there was a promotion to get people to write a novel in a month.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061024-weird-animals.html A photo gallery of strange extinct animals.

11/30/06 Gil's LotD

http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2005/02/all-16777216-rgb-colours/ A picture of all the different colors you can get in a 24 bit color image.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/roadblock A funny video of drivers getting stuck when trying to sneak past road barriers.
http://www.blendtec.com/willitblend/ This company has videos of how their blenders can blend through all sorts of different items. Definitely check this one out.

11/25/06 Gil's LotD

http://libremap.org/ Remember that website that was raising money to buy all the USGS topo maps as computer images? Well, this is the site they are all hosted at. Enjoy!
http://rottingawaysoftly.ytmnd.com/ Time lapsed photography of a watermelon rotting.

11/24/06 Gil's LotD

http://lario3.splinder.com/post/9696866/Vampiri+BUUU!
http://adoptamicrobe.blogspot.com/ A blog of drawings and a short story about a specific microbe.

11/12/06 Gil's LotD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbJs1XwdS0 New England gangsta rap. Check it out.
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/cdzap.html Pictures of what happens when you heat a CD in a microwave then put it on a Tesla coil.

Syndicate content