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Hamburg Science Centre and Aquarium Makes Us Go Ooooooooo [Architecture]

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2008-01-29 07:12:10 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...Science Centre for the Hamburg Hafencity, which is part of the Hamburg harbour, one of the largest ports in the world. The stunning ring design is composed of ten modular blocks, and it will include a science theater, aquarium, theater, offices, laboratories and retail area. It may be their painterly nature, but the rest of the rendering make...
 
Tags: hamburg, hafencity hamburg, hamburg city centre, hamburg hafencity complex, science centre, science, hamburg hafencity gmbh, 569-square-foot science centre, hafencity
 
 
 
 
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Just a theory: Modern culture destroying science education

2008-08-05 21:16:05 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...science education, which has wussed out and become too interested in its own cultural propriety to adequately teach the nuts and bolts. We just don't challenge kids with hard stuff like trig anymore, preferring that they have self-esteem, which qualifies them to have just gotten laid off by Starbucks. The intellectual lassitude we breed in...
 
Tags: science, science education, soft science education, science che, culture, students, cultural propriety, real enemy, challenge kids
 
 
 
 
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[CES 2008] Panel: Science Fictions Influence On Technology

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2008-01-08 10:10:10 by Evan Ackerman in OhGizmo!
...science magazines back when they were good. Mossberg throws in with Neal, with the additions of Asimov (specifically the Foundation trilogy ), as well as Star Trek TNG (as opposed to TOS ). Star Trek tried to use science fiction as a way to deal with human social, political, moral issues. Now, of course, hes addicted to Battlestar, which is...
 
Tags: science, neal stephenson signs, neal stephenson, includes lucy lawless, lucy lawless, neal, collaborative science, panel, popular science magazines
 
 
 
 
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[CES 2008] Panel: Science Fictions Influence On Technology

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2008-01-08 10:10:10 by Administrator in Oblingo!
...science magazines back when they were good. Mossberg throws in with Neal, with the additions of Asimov (specifically the Foundation trilogy ), as well as Star Trek TNG (as opposed to TOS ). Star Trek tried to use science fiction as a way to deal with human social, political, moral issues. Now, of course, hes addicted to Battlestar, which is...
 
Tags: science, neal stephenson signs, neal stephenson, includes lucy lawless, lucy lawless, neal, collaborative science, panel, popular science magazines
 
 
 
 
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Scientific Explorer's Disgusting Science - A Kit of the Science Of Revolting Things

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2007-12-01 14:22:00 by Ashish in The newest of gadgets
...Science is the grossest, gooiest, most revolting science kit out there. Grow your own friendly germs and fuzzy molds. Mix up a batch of coagulating fake blood. Even make a stinky intestine model. Learn the science behind sticky and icky bodily functions while doing some truly nasty experiments. Your little scientist will love this disgusting...
 
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'If the discipline lends itself to opposing experts, it's not science' Peter Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project

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2008-05-16 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...science and glorified guesswork Now researchers at Marquette University say they have developed a first-of-its kind computer program that can measure bite characteristics. They say their work could lead to a database of bite characteristics that could narrow down suspects and lend more scientific weight to bite-mark testimony The naysayers...
 
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Become an instant egghead with 60-Second Science

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2008-04-21 15:12:34 by Hoyun in Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
...Science offerings, Scientific American has been running a video podcast series in which its editors explain big scientific topics of general interest, using common objects. I haven't timed the videos to see how close they come to just 60 seconds, but they are indeed short enough that I don't have time to get distracted like I did in high...
 
Tags: 60-second science, 60-second science offerings, time lapse video, time, topics, scientific topics, dark matter, editors explain, explain
 
 
 
 
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Science Friday Does Robots

2008-05-04 17:00:00 by Robot News from GoRobotics.net in Robotic-Lab.COM
 
...science friday talks robots.html) is reporting the NPR featured robots on its weekly Science Friday (http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/2008/04/28/npr science friday talks robots.html) talk show. Can't find anyone to hang out with? Maybe you should invite a robot into your home. In this segment, Ira and guests talk about developing...
 
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2008 Science Visualization Challenge: Amazing Images Show Science Like You Should [Science]

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2008-09-26 07:00:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge has just concluded with some pretty astonishing imagery in the winning slots. This picture, dubbed "Glass Forest," is a scanning electron micrograph of diatoms (weird unicellular algae) clinging to a marine worm, and won the photography category: to my eyes it looks half like a palm tree and...
 
Tags: challenge, visualization challenge, level, blood-vessel level, weird unicellular algae, star trek effect, national science foundation, illustration category winner, science pretty