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Gravity Challenge

 

 

The six weeks of the Digital Learning Foundation, STFC funded, Gravity Challenge Southern Tour is now over.. and I would like to thank all those, whose hard work, enthusiasm and support made it a great success. The results are now available here.
 
Each day the Challenge started with our  Gravity 3D Show and then continued with the Gravity Workshop, a science based, enterprise style, digital media challenge for teams of 4 or 5 students, that includes a series of simple hands on experiments, the building of a Roller Coaster, the making of two movies and a final presentation. A lot to get through in only five hours!
 
The current challenge workbook is now available for download from the above workshop page, a shopping list and a detailed description of how to make and do each of the experiments are also being added.. 
 

Gravity Challenge Southern Tour : Best Team

Submitted by phil lavery on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 18:10

team           Galileo 30 Jan 2009

location       Magna / CENT / Rawmarsh CLC
school        Brinsworth Comprehensive
 

More information about the Gravity Challenge is here : Challenge

More information about the Southern Tour is here : Tour

More photos can be found here :  Gallery

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HiRISE Images of Mars

Submitted by phil lavery on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 17:53

HiRISE Website

These are just a few of the stunning images captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. You will find many more on the mission website, including stereo pairs and anaglyphs. Enjoy.

Our 3D Show : Space, the Solar System & Beyond.

 

 

The Shuttle Lift Off movie you have been waiting for!

Submitted by phil lavery on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 13:03

Via LiveLeak.com 

With close-ups and multiple points of view this video of the STS-129 launch really gets you into the action. Even better than being there.. almost.

Our 3D Show : Space, the Solar System & Beyond.

 

 

The iPhone Orchestra :

Submitted by phil lavery on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 00:11

via ns.umich.edu

A really interesting project that combines composition, programming and performance all based on the iPhone.

view the performance here.

This may not fully explore the musical range of the iPhone / iPodTouch, but it does give an indication of the quality of sound and performance that can be achieved.

Guernica in 3D

Submitted by phil lavery on Fri, 27/11/2009 - 17:36

The world will not end in 2012 : Neil deGrasse Tyson

Submitted by inspire on Tue, 24/11/2009 - 11:30

Neil deGrasse Tyson dismisses the 2012 catastrophe.

Links :

The end is nigh! 2012 Reality Check.

2012 : End of the world? ( Information is Beautiful)

Death by Black Hole : Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Submitted by inspire on Mon, 23/11/2009 - 20:22

Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers one of the questions we are always asked when we do our Space or Gravity 3D shows. What happens when you fall into a black hole? 

Another favourite is how do you go to the toilet in space, and you can find the answer to that here.

Links to our 3D Shows :

Space the Solar System and Beyond

Gravity

Gravity Challenge

Gravity Challenge : Southern Tour Results

Gravity Challenge : North Ayrshire Results

 

James Clerk Maxwell still at the forefront of Science?

Submitted by phil lavery on Mon, 23/11/2009 - 11:27

 

Via Institute of Physics

Ulf Leonhardt suggests that using an untested theory of Maxwell's may allow light to be focused below it's wavelength. This is something that has been thought to be impossible. But, if true, could be of a huge benefit in the production of microchips and in the developing field of nano technology.

Links :

Ulf Leonhardt Page

Ulf on Artificial Black Holes

Our Maxwell Show and Competition.

3D Show : Maxwell's Rainbow

What Maxwell did for us!

Maxwell Resources and Links


Light echo from V838 mon : APOD

Submitted by phil lavery on Sun, 22/11/2009 - 12:19

 

Astronomy Picture Of the Day 22/11/09

The universe is both stranger and more beautiful than we realise. Click the link above to get more information about this image.

The above picture was grabbed from the APOD Viewer (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) iPhone App (£0.59). There is also a very good free NASA iPhone app which gives information, pictures, movies and updates on many of the current missions.

Links :

APOD iPhone Viewer Application

NASA iPhone Application

test post using BlogPress from my iPhone

The word normal always scared me! - Inside Tim Burton's head.

Submitted by inspire on Fri, 20/11/2009 - 17:49

The Tim Burton exhibition is at MOMA from Nov 22 - April 26, 2010.

Wish I could go!

Link : MOMA

 

So how does the LHC work?

Submitted by phil lavery on Fri, 20/11/2009 - 10:59
via cdsweb.cern.ch

Animation 'The Bottle to Bang'

You will find this and other useful LHC videos on the CERN Document Server.

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Rushes Sequence for you to edit - Chad Hurley interview

Submitted by inspire on Fri, 20/11/2009 - 10:45

You will find more video content to use and edit on the Digital Revolution Blog. Do read the terms and full licence before using.

Animated X-ray Analyses of Speech

Submitted by phil lavery on Thu, 19/11/2009 - 23:19

 

  

By Christine Ericsdotter

ABSTRACT

The goal of this project is to investigate 12 speakers with the x-ray equipment at Danderyd Hospital, that is especially calibrated for synchronous registration of articulatory movements and sound. Each subject is recorded for 20 seconds at 50 images per second. The x-ray films are of high quality, which facilitates the phonetic interpretation. The analysis is made frame by frame by tracing the speaker's vocal tract profile and by feeding the information from the different parts of the vocal tract profile (jaw, mandible, pharynx, tongue contour and lips) into the APEX model. At present, we are investigating how the movement of the tongue is modified when the tongue blade gestures for dental and retroflex stops interact with the tongue body motion for various VCV contexts

 

Design : Objectified Trailer

Submitted by phil lavery on Thu, 19/11/2009 - 23:09

Look out for Jonathan Ive :-) Full film now available on iTunes