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All decked out: Museum's Tony Hawk skateboard exhibit ready to roll
FORT LAUDERDALE How to roll lessons about skateboarding, physics and creativity into one cool package? A new exhibit at the Museum of Discovery and Science is ready to show you how. The Tony Hawk: RAD Science Skate Exhibit features 25 interactive...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Science, Museum of Discovery and Science, Museums
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Entertainment Events, Consumer Goods Industries, University of California, Santa Barbara, IBM
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Scientists acting out
The opening scene went something like this:
Setting: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab building 17 cafeteria -- Fall 2009
Rocket Scientist #1: I do community theater.
Rocket Scientist #2: I almost minored in theater in college.
Rocket Scientist #1:...Tags: Concerts, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Music, William Shakespeare, Arts and Culture
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Science revolution heading to Illinois schools
As early as kindergarten, all students in Illinois could be engaged in science and engineering practices, from analyzing data to defining problems and designing solutions. By high school they'd be deep into engineering design and investigating solutions...
Tags: Teachers, Engineering, Students, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Deerfield
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Holtville High physics class imparts knowledge on younger students
Staff WriterHOLTVILLE — For the second-grade students at Finley and Pine Elementary schools, a short trip to the local high school translated into a fun-filled physics lesson here Tuesday. The elementary students had the opportunity to engage in seven hands-...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Students, Robert J. Lopez, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Teachers, Students, Soccer, Northwestern University, Harvard University
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Fiber optics headquarters to be built in Allentown
With its black color and sleek design jutting 10 stories into the Allentown skyline, a proposed new sales headquarters of United Fiber & Data is what you might expect for a company bankrolled by alternative rock band Live. "This is badass," said Bill...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Allentown, Networking, Economy, Business and Finance, Ed Pawlowski
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World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's northern hemisphere full of lights, and the south almost solidly...Tags: Engineering, Colleges and Universities, Education, Technology, Newspaper and Magazine
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Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense...Tags: Judaism, Genetics, Alzheimer's Disease, Colleges and Universities, Biology
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Chicago bike accident highlights the oft-brutal laws of physics, biology
Any attempt to make bicycling in Chicago easier and safer by using the law is welcome. That includes Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals last week to amend the city's bike ordinance to give cyclists more freedom to maneuver but also increase penalties on...
Tags: Northwestern University, Agriculture, Biology, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School
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Pinning down the physics of bubbles
Bubbles are a serious business. While they're beloved as a childhood pastime and a bathtub luxury, the physics behind the delicate, iridescent clusters remains remarkably complex. Now mathematicians have pinned down the ephemeral physical processes that...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Science and Technology, Science
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Soliloquy: Advice from a well-worn mother
I became a mother in 1979. I had two children in the ’80s, two in the ’90s and one in 2000, so my childbearing years span four decades, two centuries and two millennia. I feel I’ve earned the right to give motherly advice, so here...Tags: Family
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