…heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, recently published in Nature, shows…
They just measured relativistic effects between two atomic clocks differing by the speed of a fast bike rider and on length scales shorter than two feet. Boy, this world is…
Programmable thermostats allow Energy3D to study the effects of human behavior on home energy use Blog Post
…hourly heating cost of a house with Auckland heat pumps on January 1st when the thermostat temperature is set to be 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 °C. Obviously, the…
…to formulate research questions, explore, analyze, and summarize environmental data, and come up with interpretations. Students using CODAP to investigate environmental data from El Yunque National Forest during a Data…
…number of litters in a year, when cats are mature enough to have kittens… Before long, the paper is filled with notes on cat reproduction facts, drawings of cat family…
…do things with data—explore, visualize, find patterns, identify problems, investigate sources, think about the ethical use of data, and more. These are the hallmarks of data fluency. The Concord Consortium…
…performance on recursion. Journal of the Learning Sciences. Chao, J., Xie, C., Nourian, S., Chen, G., Bailey, S., Goldstein, M. H., Purzer, S., Adams, R. S., & Tutwiler, M. S….
…be high to render the motion smoothly. The Java molecular dynamics code of the Molecular Workbench, however, has not been parallelized. I have been playing with java.util.concurrent to parallelize it,…
Chad’s Great American Eclipse Chase: Part 8—Prepping 101—Planning and prioritizing for totality Blog Post
…it points at the sun. Also, since the image is highly magnified, the rotation of the Earth is highly evident—the image quickly moves across the screen, and will pass out…
…oxygen atoms, and watch how potential and kinetic energy change. Reaction Between Hydrogen and Oxygen Molecules Carefully observe changes in kinetic and potential energy as hydrogen and oxygen molecules react….