Sometimes children assume that the way things are in the world today are the way things have always been and the way things will always be. Gapminder empowers the user to visually manipulate graphs to focus on elements of interest, but definitely shows that things don’t always stay the same in the world, even within [...]
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Microsoft Research Makes Feynman Lectures Available for Free
Posted by ginac on July 17th, 2009
Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, makes the Messenger lecture series by physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The Messenger Series explains the relation of Mathematics and Physics. If you have ever read any of his books, you will really enjoy seeing and hearing [...]
Get Creative With Food for the Dog Days of Summer
Posted by ginac on July 11th, 2009
It’s summertime and the livin’ is . . . hot! I found a fun website with very creative summer recipes perfect for the dog days of summer. You have to check out the little peach cakes. The peach cakes look so perfect they look like real peaches. Of course, there is also the classic s’mores [...]
