Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008

BY: NOAH SIMON

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-scientif/

Meditation's Effects On The Brain

BY: DANIELLE COHEN

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4770779











(image courtesy of: http://www.dharma.org/bcbs/index.html)

Star Size Comparison YouTube Clip

BY: ELLIOTT SINA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=email





















(image courtesy of: http://www.kiroastro.com/writings/perspective)

Solar System Interactive

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/illusionist/585103




















(image courtesy of: www.aerospaceguide.net/solar_system/index.html)

Anatomy of a Refrigerator Interactive

What did you learn?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/refrigerator.html












(image and interactive credit: Richard Pommier Swanson)

Absolute Zero interactive

What did you find fascinating (or not) about this temperature scale?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/scale.html












(image and interactive credit: Glenn Elert)

Name That Species!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0307-name_that_species.htm (read and watch video)
















(image credit: Enixy Collado Mercado, Stony Brook University)

Alternative to Open Heart Surgery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0105-alternative_to_open_heart_surgery.htm (read and watch video)














(Image credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki)

Bacteria As Art

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1211-bacteria_as_art.htm  (Read and watch video)

(Image by David Goulding)