Fool me once…
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Ah! April fools day! Time to loosen the tops on the salt shakers and put salt in the sugar bowl.
museumofhoaxes.com gives us their list of the 100 best April Fools jokes in history. Here are the top ten. CLICK HERE to see the rest.
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced [...]
Spring 2009 Hidden Picture Puzzles
Friday, March 20th, 2009Happy First Day of Spring!!!
Here are the Highlights Magazine free printable Hidden Picture Puzzle Hotlinks for February and March 2009. As always, these puzzles are provided courtesy of Highlights Magazine.
Click on the puzzle links below.
February 2009 Hidden Picture Puzzle (The Queen of Hearts & Old King Cole)
March 2009 Hidden Picture Puzzle (Traveling Squirrels)
3/14 is Pi Day!
Friday, March 13th, 2009March 14th (3/14) is Pi Day. Whether you celebrate by eating pie, throwing a pie or just by reading this post, it’s a worthwhile activity to reflect on this remarkable number!
The diameter of the the above circle is 1 so its circumference = Pi
Pi is one of the most important mathematical constants. Approximately [...]
Topps in 3-D Technology
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Check this out!
Topp’s has launched a line of collector’s baseball cards that work with your webcam to bring players to life. The action unfolds right on your desktop!
The cards, called Topps 3-D Live, are built with technology created by augmented reality company Total Immersion. The images are not holograms. They are actually a digital overlay on the video [...]
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
Friday, March 6th, 2009This week I previewed National Geographic Channel’s “Kingdom of the Blue Whale” which is scheduled to premier on Sunday, March 8 at 8PM ET/PT.
Blue Whales are among the most mysterious creatures on our planet. Our understanding of their migratory and reproductive habits is sketchy at best.
This program takes the viewer on a groundbreaking journey of discovery with a [...]
Rotten Science
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009After living things die, they are acted upon by bacteria, molds, fungi, etc. causing them to rot. This decaying process releases elemental components to be used again & again in the environment to build and sustain new life. It’s recycling at it’s most basic level.
Here is an interesting array of videos featuring this fascinating process at work on some [...]
