Build a Body is an interactive anatomy lesson where you put the organs in and read about what they do. It’s organized really well by system, but the part that I found most intriguing was the case studies section. In it, you read about a person and figure out what’s wrong with their body parts.
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Build a Body
February 10th, 2012The Lord of the Rings Family Tree
February 9th, 2012The Lord of the Rings is one of the only books that I had to keep flipping back to the index while reading. Everyone’s an “-orn” this or an “-endil” that. It’s hard to keep track of.
Until now.
Check out this extremely large family tree. I do find some irony in ents being included in the tree.
News Flash: The lost city of Atlantis is lost.
February 7th, 2012I had always chuckled when I saw the lost city of Atlantis marked in Google Earth, hoping that users would check the validity of the information versus other sources. The “Atlantis” tag on the map over some shadowy areas of the ocean has now been removed.
Symphony of Science
February 3rd, 2012Like Science? Like T-Pain-style autotune? Check out the Symphony of Science. It reminds me a lot of the Autotune the News folks.
Mobile 2012
January 31st, 2012Are you interested in mobile learning, whether it’s on a tablet, a phone, or something else? AZK12 is hosting Mobile 2012 April 11-13.
Check out the list of speakers:
Jaime Casap
Eric Marcos
Janet Wozniak
Tony Vincent
I’ve attended a conference with Tony before and chatted with him. He definitely knows his stuff. And the Wozniak last name should sound familiar in connection to Apple…
ChillingEffects.org
January 27th, 2012Do you know your online rights? If you write fan fiction, are you breaking copyright? If you link to another site, are you breaking the law?
ChillingEffects.org, a shared project from a number of universities, came to my attention because of recent decisions by Twitter to censor people’s status updates depending upon the laws of certain countries. In China, your Google search is filtered stricter than even a school network, and that took years to come about. Twitter isn’t even allowed in China.
Twitter was influential in the Middle Eastern and Russian protests in recent years. It will be interesting to see how protesters will coordinate now. ChillingEffects will at least keep a record of government requests to censor online messages.
Check out ChillingEffect’s database of cease and desist messages by clicking here.
Actions vs. words
January 18th, 2012Wikipedia followed through on the blackout, although you can get around it by turning off JavaScript in your browser. Google changed their logo. Twitter is tweeting about it. We’ll see if the statement was heard by lawmakers.
Are you ready for the Internet to shut down tomorrow?
January 17th, 2012As a protest against SOPA and PIPA, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, and a number of other big sites on the Internet are planning to stop services for 24 hours. Instead of a normal Google search, a page describing why they’re protesting.
The text of the Stop Online Piracy Act is here. The Protect IP Act is here. Essentially, the bills say that if a site is found to have material on it that breaks copyright, Internet service providers are required to deny access to those sites.
Are you ready to get some sunshine tomorrow? What are we going to do with ourselves? Use Bing?
Floppy drives as musical instruments
January 9th, 2012I just found this video of five floppy drives playing a cover of daft Punk’s “Derezzed” from Tron Legacy:
So, that’s a lot of fun, but the really cool thing is that YouTube user Sammy1Am uploaded a how-to video for how to do this with your own old floppy drives:
3D tours of the Smithsonian and a virtual dinosaur dig
December 16th, 2011Even if you don’t get to travel this break, you can still explore the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History by clicking here.
Want to see what the process is like when you dig up fossils? Click here
