Todd has found another great science/education video. In this case, the old trick of density is used to switch the glasses of some whiskey and some water. Watch and learn:
Don’t understand how it worked? Short of returning to 5th grade science, you can watch the video below which explains it:
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Today, the Encyclopedia of Life was announced. This incredibly cool idea arose from a dream of E. O. Wilson.
What I cannot understand is why it took so long for humanity to decide upon the creation of a centralized life database. After all, I can’t tell you how many times I have done school projects upon life sciences and been frustrated by the inconsistency between sources and species. Hopefully, this project will live up to and exceed all expectations for the internet. Indeed, I am glad to see a project like this in that it will provide the internet with a source that no science teacher can reasonably call unacceptable. After all, that would be akin to saying the Smithsonian is a theme park. Hopefully, with projects like this, user-generated, dynamic internet applications can prove their effectiveness in academia.
One feature shown in the demo is the ability to set your user level. This way, the same database can be used for 6th graders and graduate researches alike - without hindering the research process for either. Hopefully, other projects will continue this idea of presenting the same data in different levels. The Encyclopedia of Life represents a bridge between user-generated applications and traditional scholarly papers. After all, life science and taxonomy is about creating connections between things.
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