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profile.gif David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.

profile.gifBenjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.

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JK Rowling and her advice to students (on fear and imagination)

This is actually very nicely done - a commencement speech by JK Rowling at Harvard a few weeks ago. I've embedded the movie file below the fold for convenience, but full details (as well as the transcript of the speech)...

Your Foodometer: Eat Less Oil

Summarizing some points on local food, community supported agriculture (CSAs), and energy, here's a Youtube catch....

Food Wars: Help Me Obi Wan Cannoli, You're My Only Hope

So says Princess Lettuce, heading the Organic Rebellion with Cuke Skywalker...and May the Farm Be With You

International Philosophers: Greece v. Germany

Wilkins had a post that linked to a Monty Python sketch. So why not watch (or re-watch, if that be your angle) another sketch, pasted below for your viewing ease? Always good fun....

Happy New Year! (and keeping it real...)

What better way to keeping it real than showcasing a talk that discusses ways the Earth could end? This one is aptly titled, "10 ways the world could end" First class starts tonight (woo hoo!)...

Television Math

Flight of the Conchords = Mr. Show + Tenacious D + Extras

How About that Mercury Transit, huh? That was some transit.

A video of the 8 November 2006 Transit across the sun.

Fences + Human Nature = Really Cool Movie (different too from Snakes on a Plane).

Chances are, this 1952 film from Norman Mclaren cost less than $1.2 billion. Despite that, it won the Oscar for best animation that year....

If you thought the Swedish Chef was entertaining, you should check this guy out. This is what teaching is all about, folks.

The other day, I passed on a link for an Al Gore talk at a TEDtalks event, but in reality, the reason why I initially went to the site was to check out a talk by Hans Rosling. Briefly: Hans...

Seriously folks - Al Gore is hilarious.

This is from TEDtalks - worth a look for sure....

Kaboom! Beauty on a reel via the three R's

Here is an example where an artist, perhaps unknowingly even, is consuming less. A short animated movie, using only the reused, recycled, or (at the very least) the very old, that shows how aesthetics can be achieved through any means....

Now here is an interesting class activity - biochemistry and interpretative dance, together for the first time

Man, talk about creativity - I got this from inkycircus (Hi Anne). Truth is, I can't really say more than what the title gives away. The good stuff starts about 3 and a half minutes in....

Air!

Someone passed on this link to the National Film Board of Canada lately, and I've spent a good twenty minutes checking the site out. It doesn't have the "Cosmic Zoom" animation, which is one I've been after for the longest...

Africa is out: World Cup and the World in general - an update.

Yesterday, Ghana, the last remaining African team in contention, was eliminated from the World Cup. This was after a entertaining match against the heavy favourites Brazil, that ended predictably where Brazil powered over with a 3-0 victory. This followed the...

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