The Science of Baseball

There are several links within this site.

http://exploratorium.edu/baseball/

Killer Catfish!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210173607.htm

Microscope Game

See how fast you can identify parts of a microscope!

http://www.purposegames.com/game/05c7b310

Paramecium Eating Pigmented Yeast YouTube Clip

BY: ETTA FRIEDMAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ymaSzcsdY&feature=related

(image from www.nwnature.net/micro_org/index.htm)

VIrtual Heart Surgery

BY: ARA MAHSEREDJIAN

http://www.abc.net.au/science/lcs/heart.htm

Egyptian Mummy Curse Video Clip

BY: EMMA WERNIG

http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-egypt/5-egyptian-mummy-videos1.htm

How Sunglasses Work Video Clip

BY: EMMA WERNIG

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/132-how-sunglasses-work-video.htm

Science Trivia Quiz

BY: BRANDON FONG

http://triviapark.com/quizzes/sciquiz.html

Top 10 Spacefinds of 2009

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

Howard suggests reading the attached articles before posting!!!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091204-top-ten-discoveries-2009-space-news.html

(Image by Casey Reed, courtesy of Penn State)

Mind-Reading Through Eyes

BY: MAYA FLANNERY

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090810004213data_trunc_sys.shtml

The Wonders of a Tiny Cell- YouTube Clip

BY: LIZ YOUNT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMlde9akBk&feature=related

Meet The Supermassive Black Hole Experts- Video

BY: BRANDON FONG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZdJmUF4lM (Brandon's YouTube find)


(image credit: Marscher et al., Wolfgang Steffen, Cosmovision, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy Into Existence?

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091130112413.htm

(image credit: ESO)

Brain of World's Best-Known Amnesiac Mapped

BY: BEN KOTZUBEI

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/03/brain.observatory.h.m.amnesia/index.html

How Do Sword Swallowers Swallow Swords?

BY: MAYA FLANNERY

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15206

Why Does Everything Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?

BY: MAYA FLANNERY

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19516.html

Edheads-Games

BY: ARA MAHSEREDJIAN

http://edheads.org/

Mystery "Dark Flow" Extends Towards Universe

BY: DECLAN SAVIANO

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427345.000-mystery-dark-flow-extends-towards-edge-of-universe.html

(image credit: NASA/M.Markevitch et al/STSCI; Maggellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al)

How Magnetism Guides Animal Migration

Wait for the commercial to end.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/11957-magnetism-how-magnetism-guides-animal-migration-video.htm

(image credit: Softpedia)

Why Do Limbs "Fall Asleep"?

By: GRIFFIN FREITAS

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs//archives/23305

Mass Extinctions

By: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14698363

(image credit: NASA)

Why Can't Chimps Speak?

By: MAYA FLANNERY

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/why-can-t-chimps-speak-111961.aspx

(image credit: www.hellofelix.com/)

Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull

By: DECLAN SAVIANO

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/ (video)

Jupiter's Little Red Spot

By: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1108-jupiters_little_red_spot.htm

(image credit: NASA)

Engineers Use Aerospace Approach to Design Wave Energy System

By: NOAH SIMON

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119111329.htm


(image credit: SSgt Danny Washburn, U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of Aeronautics)

Active Hearing Process In Mosquitos

By: BRANDON FONG

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119193809.htm

(image courtesy of University of Bristol)

Fantastic Contraption- Physics Game

DO THE TUTORIAL FIRST!!

http://fantasticcontraption.com/index.php

Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning

By: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49288/title/Signature_of_antimatter_detected_in_lightning

(image courtesy of Axel Rouvin/Flickr)

DNA Extraction Virtual Lab

This is a great interactive site. We will be extracting DNA ourselves for one of the LEAP days so it's great practice! Enjoy!

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/

Batteries Built by Viruses

By: EMMA WERNIG

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/48901/title/FOR_KIDS_Batteries_built_by_viruses


(image courtesy of Donna Coveney/MIT)

Cell SIze and Scale

By: ELLIOTT SINA

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

Warp Drive in Front of Planet

By: DECLAN SAVIANO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLw3qgP68k


(image courtesy of www.centauri-dreams.org)

Bernoulli's Principle

By: Ms. Ghazarian :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPe3po1TTY

Planes Improve Weather

By: ARA MAHSEREDJIAN

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/1209-planes_improve_weather.htm (Read & Watch)

(image courtesy of amdar.noaa.gov/TAMDAR/survey/)

100 Great Discoveries

By: BRANDON FONG

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/100discoveries/big100/big100.html


(courtesy of Science Channel)

Cosmic Ray Mystery Solved?

By: NOAH SIMON

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091102-cosmic-rays-galaxies-picture.html

(Courtesy of National Geographic)

Meet The Elements Video

By: BRANDON FONG
  
http://www.youtube.com/user/ParticleMen#p/search/0/Uy0m7jnyv6U

(Image courtesy of They Might Be Giants)

Green Car Sets Speed Record

By: NOAH SIMON

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118112317.htm

(image courtesy of European Space Agency)

New Botanical Drug May Silence Peanut Allergies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213105713.htm

(image courtesy of ack Dykinga; courtesy of USDA/Agricultural Research Service)

Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet

By: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-046

(image courtesy of NASA/ESA)

Making Donuts Healthy with Nanotechnology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214162746.htm

(image courtesy of iStockphoto/Dean Turner)

First Habitable Earthlike Planet Found

By: HENRI STERN

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070424-new-planet.html

(Image courtesy of ESO)

Space Time Hypersurfing

By: DECLAN SAVIANO (based on his reading assignment)

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1090.htm

(Image courtesy of Discover Magazine 1995)

Personal Footprint Calculator Interactive

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/personal_footprint/

Virtual Knee Surgery

http://www.ht83.com/y8games/Virtual_Knee_Surgery  (Just click PLAY and begin the surgery!)

World-first Sustainable Racing Car Runs On Chocolate, To Take On Formula 3

BY: BRANDON FONG

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005123048.htm












(image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Bizarre Hexagon Spotted in Saturn's Clouds

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17816192/#storyContinued











(image courtesy of NASA)

For Carnivorous Plants, Slow But Steady Wins the Race

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914182615.htm












(image courtesy of iStockphoto/Manuel Jung)

Diagnosing Heartburn

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1205-diagnosing_heartburn.htm
(watch and read)

Thirsty Plants Text For Help

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0101-thirsty_plants_text_for_help.htm
(watch and read)