Tuesday by the Numbers
June 3, 2008
8 Tips to Help You Think Like a Genius - I don’t need these tips, personally, because me am already genius. You might find them useful, though. ZME Lifetips recommends visualization, being productive, and thinking metaphorically amongst others. Start using these tips and you’ll be a geinus in no time.
5 Questions That Will Save You Time and Money - Lifehack presents this list of questions you should ask yourself to tell if you are being productive or actually wasting time. There are a lot of do-it-yourself-ers out there who think they can do-it-themselves but they end up not-doing-it-right so they end-up-paying-for-it-later. The first of these five questions sums it up nicely: Do I have the skills necessary for the task?
6 Best Ways to Learn Physics… For Free - I don’t know much about physics, but I do know it is easier to understand if you see it in action. Blog Learn Out Loud has compiled this list of a few good video demonstrations you can find on the web. Included on the list is a great video we mentioned before about the 10th dimension.
List of Educational Web 2.0 Apps to Jumpstart Your Productivity - There are a lot of Web 2.0 applications out there, but only a few are catered toward becoming a better learner. DiplomaGuide has found some of the better ones available. These 25 applications are divided into categories like ‘organization’ and ‘note taking’. There seems like a good mix here, so sort your way through to find what you can recommend to your students. -JEREMY S. GRIFFIN
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Learn the workings of the solar system by building your own. With
Here’s a way for your students to exercise their creativity as well as their capacity for smashing stuff.
Find two school programs with less in common than art and science. Okay, maybe band and auto shop don’t have much in common. But for our purposes today, let’s say art and science are polar opposites within most schools. They’re on different sides of the building (if the art program hasn’t been cut altogether), and they attract very different students.
If you are too lazy or unimaginative to go out and see how physics works in the real world, you can simply visit
One of the reasons I didn’t major in the sciences was the periodic table. What may look to scientists like a finely-ordered display of the building blocks of the world, appears to me as a mess of senseless symbols (lead is Pb? How can I remember that?) or random strings of consonants (what the hey is yttrium?).
When I left high school, I thought I’d seen the last of physics. What a fool I was. Like the urban legend that you’re never more than six feet from a spider,
Next time you start to feel a little long in the tooth, find out
Trebuchet isn’t just a stylish font. It’s also a
The highlight of my high school chemistry class was watching a video of scientists chucking bricks of potassium into a lake and watching them explode. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can access scientific explosions any time you want to. And if you see only one bit of science shenanigans this month, make it
Bill Nye the Science Guy returns with a new show, The Eyes of Nye. Though I haven’t yet seen the program, you should definitely visit its accompanying
What’s your favorite –ology? You can’t go wrong with paleontology, I say. Yeah, geology’s cool, too, as well as anthropology. Fortunately, if you visit