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Orion Liftoff and Splashdown
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Birds, Science/Nature
Turkey on a Treadmill
by JOHN ADAMS •
Not every turkey winds up sharing part of a plate with some cranberry sauce. A few turkeys, including the one below, play a role in scientific research. Here’s the description accompanying the YouTube video from The Roberts Lab at Brown University: This turkey is one of Dr. Thomas Roberts’ research subjects at Brown University. Dr.…
Birds, Science/Nature
How Birds Count
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
A Jellyfish Buffet
by JOHN ADAMS •
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The Physics of Space Battles
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Earth Observations from the International Space Station
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature, Science/Nature
Measuring Kepler 93B
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
Sharks and Surveillance
by JOHN ADAMS •
Sharks, like many people, dislike surveillance cameras: REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on Vimeo. In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more…
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Mars 2020: Recorded presentation of NASA news conference on Mars 2020 rover
by JOHN ADAMS •
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NASA’s Flying Observatory
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Good Ideas, Science/Nature
The Makers of Things Present and Future
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a story at the Christian Science Monitor about makerspaces across America, like the one we have in town @ whitewatermakerspace.org, 1206 E Bluff Rd, Whitewater, WI 53190. It’s a new-old idea, as Noelle Swan writes: The ‘maker movement’ is heralded as a new industrial revolution – combining the spirit of the old shop class…