TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a gathering of sorts that began almost 25 years ago. It is a conference that brings together people from the Technology, Entertainment and Design sectors, but its reach has become much, much bigger! This yearly conference is the gathering place of some of the world's most fascinating people. Those movers and shakers have 18 minutes to wow the crowd through a presentation to an audience. Currently there are over 200 talks that are freely available to the public with more being added each week. I have already watched dozens already, all of which have been fascinating!
The latest TED talk that I watched was just great. It highlighted the thinking, research and development stages along with all the engineering of an amazing dinosaur toy that will be hitting the shelves soon. The creator of the toy dinosaur, Caleb Chung, reminds of the work of my brother-in-law who now teaches Electronic Media at Union College in New York.
Meet Pleo the Dinosaur:
Biggest Experiment Ever!
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known through its French acronym CERN, conducted the most complicated and ambitious experiment ever on the France/Switzerland border. CERN, the same organization that introduced us to the World Wide Web, fired two beams of particles called protons around a 27 kilometer long tunnel that is shaped like a very big doughnut on September 10, 2008. This big circle is called the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Those involved with this project hope it will shed light on some fundamental scientific principles, Physics in particular. This project wants to recreate the seconds that followed the theorized "Big Bang".
What was remarkable is that two proton beams were steered in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second.
How did the scientist steer the beams? MAGNETS! The big ring contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end.
Here is a great tour of CERN in about three minutes along with great footage of this huge particle accelerator:
CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
And in this YouTube Age, the CERN scientists could not resist. They made a rap song video to celebrate the kick-off of the commencement activities of this historic experiment:
Here is a link to a video from the BBC of the reactions from all those involved with the experiment:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7608639.stm
Stay tuned the first atom smashing will happen next month. Scientists will be using the Large Hadron Collider in an attempt to find the Higgs Bosun particle which gives all matter mass.
Here are over 8,000 other articles that were written about the Large Hadron Collider:
Other Large Hadron Collider News Articles
What was remarkable is that two proton beams were steered in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second.
How did the scientist steer the beams? MAGNETS! The big ring contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end.
Here is a great tour of CERN in about three minutes along with great footage of this huge particle accelerator:
CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
And in this YouTube Age, the CERN scientists could not resist. They made a rap song video to celebrate the kick-off of the commencement activities of this historic experiment:
Here is a link to a video from the BBC of the reactions from all those involved with the experiment:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7608639.stm
Stay tuned the first atom smashing will happen next month. Scientists will be using the Large Hadron Collider in an attempt to find the Higgs Bosun particle which gives all matter mass.
Here are over 8,000 other articles that were written about the Large Hadron Collider:
Other Large Hadron Collider News Articles
Educational Magnet Videos
My son who's in third grade is taking a test on magnets at the end of this week. And to better understand the science behind magnets I'm going to have him watch the following magnet videos that I found over at TeacherTube.com. These videos will go along with the study guide he received on magnets from his teacher. This is great reinforcement of the facts and concepts that he has been learning in his unit study on magnets.
The magnet videos range from 30 seconds to 2 minutes each.
Can You Do the Magnet Twirl?
Electromagnets
Magnets
Magnets "The Song"
Motor Madness
Ray Middle School Lego Maglev Trains
You gotta love the Magnet song!
The magnet videos range from 30 seconds to 2 minutes each.
Can You Do the Magnet Twirl?
Electromagnets
Magnets
Magnets "The Song"
Motor Madness
Ray Middle School Lego Maglev Trains
You gotta love the Magnet song!
Baby Reading at 18 months?
We all try to get our kids reading as early as possible. For many students that might be at 5 or 6. But at 18 months? I couldn't believe it until I watched this video segment on a baby girl who is reading at 18 months old. Watch for yourself:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)