…and challenges that he must solve to win the game. For instance, he must maneuver his ship through a narrow passage inside a molecule in order to get to an…
…story lasted a year, and involved the first instance I have encountered of reverse geocaching. Put simply, Mikal turned the notion of geocaching — in which you go to a…
…challenges for students. Our species of choice was dragons. We would show a dragon’s chromosomes, for instance, and ask students to figure out how to change its genes to make…
…cycle by the end of, say, 2500. Compared to the geological timescale, that’s almost instant.” “We run the risk of reproducing that big carbon-discharge event, but faster, by burning fossil…
…Instapaper queue right now – it’s a great reminder of how far we’ve come in such a short time, and about how Microsoft continued a strange fumble with their Surface…
…student and show it in an unprecedentedly fine-grained timeline graph. A timeline graph may show how students went through different iterative steps while shaping their designs. For instance, did they…
…HTML5 version of Molecular Workbench we’re developing under our new grant from Google.org, for instance, and see the atoms speed up as the temperature increases? Or set up an online…
…open source programming opens up possibilities. For instance, Jmol is a Java-based 3D viewer for chemical structures that we were able to incorporate into Molecular Workbench to allow people to…
…Ottawa, has been the primary developer since joining the project in 2010. The software is based on the open-source scene graph game engine, Ardor3D, which requires Java to be installed….
…instances in which MW is embedded in other software or run as an applet. And the number doesn’t include the 30+ employees of the Concord Consortium who could conceivably inflate…