Ivy League Professor Strips, Uses 9/11 and Bin Laden Clips To ‘Explain’ Physics
Wednesday, 20th February 2013Posted in Viral Video
Tags: Columbia, Drop it Like It's Hot, Emlyn Hughes, Lil Wayne, physics, strip, underwear
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Apparently standing in front of a blackboard and drawing out complex equations wasn’t enough for this physics professor — good for the rest of us, because we got a nifty video out of it.
Using a perfect storm of Lil’ Wayne’s “Drop it Like It’s Hot,” footage of 9/11, and the iconic insignia for the iconic punk band Misfits, Columbia prof Emlyn Hughes has constructed the most elaborate quantum physics lecture we’ve seen in quite a while. Continue reading “Ivy League Professor Strips, Uses 9/11 and Bin Laden Clips To ‘Explain’ Physics” »
Valve Comes to the Classroom: Your Substitute Teacher Will Be GLaDOS
Monday, 25th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: game design, glados, math, physics, portal, portal 2, Puzzle Maker, Teach With Portals, teacher, teachers, valve
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Valve will be entering schools across America soon. Teach With Portals, Valve’s first step into the teaching market, makes me wonder why they didn’t think of this before: utilizing lessons, designed by teachers themselves, you get educational versions of Portal 2 and Puzzle Maker, 2 Valve-crafted video games.
All you have to do is be a real teacher (in a very GLaDOS way, they have methods of finding out whether you’re actually an educator) and sign up for free for the Education Beta on the Steam for Schools website — and soon, you’ll be getting the values of the Portal world to your students. Continue reading “Valve Comes to the Classroom: Your Substitute Teacher Will Be GLaDOS” »
Defying Gravity? Object Moves In Space..Using Levitation
Wednesday, 9th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: experiment, gravity, levitation, mit, physics
Written by: Paul Nyhart
What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air?
This is the question one MIT researcher is asking and could be answering with a new computer controlled levitation system dubbed ZeroN.
The visual system is similar to the kinect, using software that enables the computer to move a steel ball around in space, or a human to just grab it and move it, “overriding” the computer system and telling it where it should go. Continue reading “Defying Gravity? Object Moves In Space..Using Levitation” »
The World’s Smartest Man…Doesn’t Get Chicks
Monday, 16th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: girls, Men are From Mars, physics, Stephen Hawking, time, women, Women are From Venus
Written by: Jeff Nau
Stephen Hawking. A name synonymous with overcoming tremendous adversity, pondering the universe’s greatest mysteries, and inciting scientists, cosmologists and astronomers to decipher the origins of time.
Yet according to Geekosystem, in a recent interview, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and bestselling author of A Brief History of Time — which translated theoretical physics/the Theory of Relativity/black hole science into a vernacular the layperson could understand — admitted that girls are, well, hard to figure out. To be specific: Continue reading “The World’s Smartest Man…Doesn’t Get Chicks” »
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