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POPSHubble Image Collection v3.0 There is a 500mb download that contains 130 of the best images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope., each in three resolutions. There is also a list of 'goodies' on the left of the page with a range of Hubble downloads,
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POPSMusic Reduced to Beautiful Math "You can use these geometrical spaces to provide ways of visualizing musical pieces," Tymoczko told LiveScience. "These spaces give us a much better and comprehensive picture of the space of all possible chords."
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POPSA List of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. The list in the clip is actual the table view; there's a list by country here: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en&&&&mode=list
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POPSTough grasses may be key to new carbon sink Grasses like this may be part of a solution, where it will be need to be part of a new approach to agriculture, which will involve a combination of measures, that will allow us to be more compatible with the environment. Things like putting back into the soil what is taken out, with fewer chemicals like pesticides, and herbicides, which nature cannot digest, being left behind. If we try and compete with nature, we lose, we need to learn to work with nature, and the resources it has available - how nature and mankind should be on the same team, but we spend too much time banging our heads against the immovable object that is nature. We often seem to be trying to replace what is natural with our own ideas, but the time that we can run a show as well as nature, is a long way off. It's about time we tried to learn.
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POPSWhat is a Large Hadron Collider ? 'Rock Star Physicist' Brian Cox explains what The large Hadron Collider is, how it works what it does and what we may discover with it. How they can get subatomic particles to go at 99..99999% of the speed of light around the 27km circumference collider ,11,000 times a second. - and what happens when they smash into each other while going in opposite directions. He also gives a description of the 'holy grail' of physics, the 'Hick Boson' the yet undiscovered particle that theoretically gives the universe 'weight' The Hadron Collider helps provide a link between theories, and discoveries in both particle physics, and cosmology, something Einstein was searching for to complete his 'Grand Universal Theory'
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POPSDenzel Washington tells NY kids science is important Denzel and his wife Pauletta have been awarding neuroscience research scholarships to college students, and he was talking to high school kids at Mt Vernon, his home town. His main message was that it may be great to be famous, but if you want to do something more important, learn about sciences, and the opportunities available, where there can be a field that is both interesting, and where they could make a difference.
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POPSMechanical 'skin' reduces aeroplane drag I'm sure there are a few other places this could be used. Maybe high speed trains or Formula 1 racing. Anywhere people want to go faster. The idea was started when they roughed up a few swimming costumes. Sort of counterintuitive, to have to rough something up to get a smoother ride. Perhaps the truth also is that everything is rough, it's just that most of the detail is too fine for us to notice. Air currents can put a surface under more intense scrutiny.
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POPSIncubator fields affect baby's heart rate. The heart ? No doubt it is going to be affected, but the brain seems like it is more at risk. The brain runs at a very low frequency - between 0, and 25 Hz in a natural state -compared to MHz, and kHz for radio, and GHz for a cpu, but as with the chords in music, a frequency higher up the scale can, amplify a note it harmonizes with somewhere else on the scale. Maybe there is a link between incubator EMR. and ADHD. A kid may not need Ritlin, they might need a tune up. If you want to know more about brain frequencies, wikki has a good summary in electroencephalograpy. Below is the url : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography#Wave_patterns
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