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Archive for October, 2009

Watch this with your own eyes!

Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Michael

If you’re not sure what to think about climate change just watch this footage with your own eyes! It’s time-lapse footage of the global ice melting!

This is a recent TED talk at Oxford University that’s only just been released …

“Ice is the canary in the global climate coalmine”, says photographer James Balog. He’s been going up north to shoot the half-alive ice of the mammoth glaciers to see the shocking effects of abrupt climate change in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland. Soaring, dripping, glowing and crumbling, arctic ice requires the viewer to engage.

••• Click here to watch this jaw-dropping TED talk …

Despite Elizabeth Blackburn’s Nobel win, women face battles in science

Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Michael

TED TALK: Optical illusions show how we see

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Michael

How Did Life Begin?

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Michael

Raise your darwinian intelligence!

Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Michael

Australian scientist wins Nobel Prize for curiosity

Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Michael

SOT uses the CAP “train-the-trainer” method

Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Michael

“spaced training” vs “massed training”

Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Michael