Lubricants
The first Web site related to lubrication is presented by SynLube.com and its relevant page is entitled Basics: What You Need to Know About Lubrication (1). Visitors can learn why lubrication is so important to mechanical devices, why oil needs to be changed in your car, what synthetic oils can do, and more. Although the site is for a manufacturer of synthetic oil, there is a good amount of interesting physical science information. The second site provides an educational resource activity by The
Time-Warp Archive of Vintage Technology Through the Decades
The time-warp project is dedicated to preserving information about the advancement of technology. It currently focuses on specific innovations of the 20th century. The site lets users travel decade by decade through illustrated living rooms typical of the period. Technology is grouped into several categories, such as televisions, calculating machines, radio, photography, and telephones. For a given selection, examples of the technology representative of the decade are shown. These include specif
SciNet Science Search
SciNet Science Search Engine is described as "Your Science, Engineering, and Medical Search Engine and Directory." Visitors can browse the many categories or search by inputting key words (an advanced search option is not available). The site has additional features such as a highest rated sites link and a 5-star site link, as well as news, a picture post, unit conversions, and periodic tables. Users searching for science specific sites and information will appreciate the engine's ease of use an
Interactions.org: Particle Physics News and Resources
The Interactions.org website serves as a hub for news, information, images, and links for particle physicists. Educators and students can find a sizeable image collection and short videos and animations describing the research and history of key physics institutions. Researchers can discover a global data grid and a database of talks in cosmic physics, linear collider, ethics and science, and other particle physics topics. The website offers links to various physics glossaries, universities, and
How Do You Store All This Data?
This lesson allows students to start seeing the data structure they will use to store their images. Students will be introduced to two dimensional arrays and vector classes. Students will be guided to see that a vector class will be the most efficient way of storing the data for their images.
Convertible Shoes: Function, Fashion and Design
Students teams design and build shoe prototypes that convert between high heels and athletic shoes. They apply their knowledge about the mechanics of walking and running as well as shoe design (as learned in the associated lesson) to design a multifunctional shoe that is both fashionable and functional.
Graphing the Rainbow
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored “barcode” spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn that a diffraction grating acts like a prism, bending light into its component colors.
Fun with Air-Powered Pneumatics
Working as engineering teams in this introductory pneumatics lab, students design and build working pneumatic (air-powered) systems. The goal is to create systems that launch balls into the air. They record and analyze data from their launches.
Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
How do we know where we are? What happens if you are completely lost in the middle of nowhere? Does technology provide tools for people lost in their travels? A person cannot usually determine an accurate position just by looking out a window in the middle of the ocean or vast area of land, particularly if it has not been charted before. In this lesson, students explore the concept of triangulation that is used in navigation satellites and global positioning systems designed by engineers. Also,
Designing Medical Devices for the Ear
Students are introduced to engineering, and more specifically, to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process through a short lecture and interactive, hands-on activity (approximately 30 minutes long), where students design their own medical device for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. In this lesson, the teacher first reviews the basics of ear anatomy then discusses how ear infections occur and how they are treated. Following antibiotic treatment, the most common treat
Intro to Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases (1/2)
Join award winning teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams as they interactively teach Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases. Common acids and bases are identified. The properties of acids and bases are also identified. ( 8:01)
Otis: Share a Memory of the Woman's Building: Chutney Gunderson
Otis College: Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building:
Weekend of October 15-16, 2011:
Still Doin' It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman's Building:
Share a Memory of the Woman's Building
During the Weekend of October 15-16, 2011, women gave their memories of their experiences at the Woman's Building. Some were there and participated in numerous activities, some were influenced by it.
Otis College exhibition "Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building"
Civil Rights Museum 2
Civil Rights Museum 3
The University of Memphis minute for the week of February 3, 2012.
The University of Memphis minute for the week of February 3, 2012.
Crown Forum: Otis Moss, Jr. Oratorical Contest
Nine finalists competed for the winning spots for the Otis Moss, Jr. Oratorical Contest. The topic for this year's competition is Men of Morehouse: Shattering the Silence Concerning Caliginous and Ineffectual Solutions to Global ills of Modern Society.
Artist Profile: Kerry James Marshall
Traditionally, history paintings have often relayed official accounts of nationhood, but Kerry James Marshall uses his paintings to bring untold history and counter-histories to light. (9mins)
Physical Bullying PSA 2012
@Google in Conversation with Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant stops by the Googleplex for a conversation with Nick Walsh.
Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook and television-show forms. The Ricky Gervais Show in radio fo
Le printemps des bonzaïs (version anglaise)
Global economy is a model that is showing its limits.
Today, an alternative exists: Social Business. This new business model brings moral back into the economy and creates a fairer world by making each one of us a responsible actor. Social entrepreneurs are the leaders of this new model.
"Le printemps des bonzais" draws the portrait of 3 of them. Marie-Noëlle Besançon is working on Health Care, Jérôme Schatzmann on Fair Trade and Grégoire Héaulme on Microf
