Researchers have known for several years now that video games can distract people from pain . Now one virtual-reality game, developed for burn patients , has added a conceptual boost to this idea; the action takes place in a snowy landscape populated by penguins and snowmen. Wounded soldiers who have played the game (wearing VR goggles to help block out the sight of their burns being treated...... [Show More]
Snow World, a virtual-reality game that has been helping victims of fires cope with painful physical therapy for nearly a decade, is now part of a military study to examine whether or not virtual reality could provide relief for soldiers burned in combat.
The United States Army Institute of Surgical Research is seeking participants to join a study that is being conducted at Fort Sam Houston, a...... [Show More]
Der Roboter-Dino Pleo bei der Gruppe für interdiziplinäre Psychologie der Universität Bamberg ( GRIP ) und dasYoutube -Interview bei WsWW - Japanisch singen auf Knopfdruck bei MIT Tech-TV  - Die Ausstellung terra mineralia im sächsischen Freiberg - Die Earth Science Week 2008 und das Blog geolismus.de - Vortragsreihe: „ Der blaue Planet in unserer Hand“ i...... [Show More]
A brief rundown of recent journal articles and media sound bites.
Dmitri Williams led a project where we analyzed server-side data from EverQuest 2 in combination with a survey of randomly sampled players from the game. Our first overview paper of the findings just came out in a peer-reviewed journal and it is accessible to the public . While the BMI (body mass index) finding has been ...... [Show More]
Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman sets up a table on a busy city street corner and offers expert answers to the public’s science questions.
Oh what shame, this senseless tragedy could have been easily avoided if only they had taken simple precautions. Just one little fence, that’s all it takes . . . oh the humanity. . . when will they learn?
Link sciencentral via BoingBoing...... [Show More]
¿Te imaginarÃas ir paseando por tu ciudad y encontrarte un tenderete en medio de la calle con todo un Premio Nobel respondiendo preguntas de cualquier transeunte curioso?
Pues eso es básicamente lo que ha hecho sciencentral con Leon Lederman , Premio Nobel de FÃsica en 1988 por sus trabajos con los neutrinos y descubridor en 1977 del quark fondo .
SerÃa interesanque que este experim...... [Show More]
Leon Lederman es un fÃsico estadounidense quien ganó, junto a Melvin Schwartz y Jack Steinberger, un premio Nobel por sus trabajos relacionados con los neutrinos (partÃculas subatómicas).
Al parecer el hombre quiere ayudar a la población normal (como vos y yo, que no entiende prácticamente nada de fÃsica) a entender más sobre este complicado mundo de las ciencias. Para e...... [Show More]
Street Corner Science es una idea tan simple como maravillosa, organizado por SienCentral pone al Premio Nobel Leon Lederman en un asiento de una esquina para que cualquier persona que pase por ahi le pregunte algo de ciencia y el lo explique de forma que esa persona lo entienda.
Que la explicación de las ciencias duras sea algo amigable y atractivo es vital en cualquier paÃs que quiera cr...... [Show More]
Physicist Dr. Leon Lederman sets up a card table on the street to answer science questions from passersby.
What’s the strong force?
As a photographer of liquids, how can I get more variety in the behavior of my subject?
At sciencentral . Part 2 is also available.
What does this have to do with getting stuff done? Maybe nothing. Or maybe, as the gentleman I met last night claime...... [Show More]
cincia de esquina Post Source: diario.liquidoxide.com Posted: Sep 23 2008 04:35:58
Pena que quando estivemos em New York, não encontramos com este tiozinho aqui ... não sei o que eu iria perguntar, mas eu gostaria de ouvir as outras perguntas do povo e as respostas dele. :-)...... [Show More]
frakking starlinks Post Source: www.mikebrotherton.com Posted: Sep 03 2008 07:33:54
Haven’t got too far on the new projects to share, so in the meantime…
Frak you . Yeah, it’s dumb to make up words like this, except when they work. And “frak” works. And because it’s TV and they don’t let you say the real thing anyway.
The hockey stick of global warming is still alive and frakking , as I alluded to yesterday. New results supp...... [Show More]
saturday starlinks Post Source: www.mikebrotherton.com Posted: Aug 30 2008 15:51:13
This first link is potentially very, very interesting, and potentially reveals some very new and unsettling physics. Apparently radioactive decay rates measured in labs on Earth depend on the the distance from the sun. Ref: arxiv.org/ abs/0808.3 283 : Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance. Proposed explanations include the only relatively mundane — ...... [Show More]
sciencentral.com
Leon Lederman, 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, answers science questions
from passersby on a busy New York City street. He discusses time travel,
nuclear fusion, the Higgs boson, and the reliability of America as a global
partner in science research.
Today, Dr. Lederman is Pritzker Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the N...... [Show More]
Street Corner Science with Leon Lederman | sciencentral
In which a Nobel laureate answers science questions on the streets of Manhattan.
(tags: science physics education video internet society culture )
'Physics for Future Presidents' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for N...... [Show More]
sidewalk science Post Source: www.nullsession.net Posted: Aug 27 2008 04:01:26
I’ve always liked Leon Lederman. He’s a neat guy. Here he is on the sidewalk answering science questions for passerbys. [From Cosmic Variance .]
Leon Lederman and Sidewalk Science
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Download Miro Player , the free and open-source RSS aggregator for video podcasts. I’m sure there are others, but Miro is, to my experience, the sleekest and most user friendly.
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Nova’s Science Now presents engaging science f...... [Show More]
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Is the sun dead? Probably not, despite news reports to the contrary. The Chair of the Solar Cycle Progression and Prediction Panel at NOAA’s Space Environment Center debunks recent alarms.
He also notes that his panel predicted that a shortage of sunspots, which scientists call a “solar minimum,” would happen this year. “We're still in line for th...... [Show More]
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