n-rd » Art http://blog.n-rd.com Everyone has an inner n-rd. Mon, 24 May 2010 14:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Critical Thinking http://blog.n-rd.com/2010/01/04/critical-thinking/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2010/01/04/critical-thinking/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:40:57 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=279 Phil Plait again has found some good content from around the Internet. This time it’s a video from a YouTube user whom apparently does a good number of pieces on critical thinking. I think that I’m becoming a large fan of injecting science and education into popular culture.

QualiaSoup video: Critical Thinking | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

]]> http://blog.n-rd.com/2010/01/04/critical-thinking/feed/ 0 The Known Universe http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/12/17/the-known-universe/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/12/17/the-known-universe/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:25 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=266 Wow! There seem to be a good number of these kinds of videos popping up lately. This one is a breathtaking view of the known universe to scale. It’s constructed by the Hayden Planetarium. Absolutely amazingly done.

The Known Universe

I’d love to see one of these with human understanding of the universe over time.

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Make: Online : Wall-mounted exploding/reassembling picture frame machine

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Gorgeous 3D Mandelbrot sets! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

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Visualizing the decline of empires – Boing Boing

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Keith’s Schoolbus Conversion Blog

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Bullets are slow

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Tilted Twister

]]> http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/27/tilted-twister/feed/ 0 Shine a light http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/19/shine-a-light/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/19/shine-a-light/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:36:00 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=134 Phil Plait has up today a very well done piece of educational video about the nature of light. Apparently there is going to be a series of these, if they’re all this well done that should be great.

Shine a light | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

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Visualizing up to ten dimensions – Boing Boing

Now if you understood that you’re in the wrong business. If you don’t have a headache you didn’t pay close enough attention.

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