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Ever wonder how your PI comes up with his or her brilliant ideas? Perhaps they are very well read or blessed with fantastic intuition. Or, perhaps their ideas were inspired by a simple conversation they had with their father when they were 8 years old. Check out this video by MythBusters star Adam Savage to learn how some great ideas were conceived from some very unremarkable events.
Posts Tagged ‘science education’
Inspiration from a Myth Buster
:: Posted by American Biotechnologist on 04-11-2012
A graduate student’s nightmare!!!
:: Posted by American Biotechnologist on 02-28-2012This is a hilarious video! Anyone who has ever worked with a project or summer student can definitely relate!!!
Wecome to the 2012 Google Science Fair!
:: Posted by American Biotechnologist on 02-21-2012Google is at it again. Welcome to the 2012 Google Science Fair. Entry deadline is April 1, 2012.
Check out last year’s superstar winners. They certainly impressed me!
Bacteria have social lives too!
:: Posted by American Biotechnologist on 02-09-2012Sit back and relax with some popcorn as you watch this interesting talk by Professor Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University talk about the social world of bacteria. And you thought that only human’s had Facebook!
H/T to Labguru for the find!
If you don’t have enough patience (or popcorn) to watch the 50 minute version of her talk, checkout her 20 minute 2009 TED talk on the same subject below.
A blasting good way to understand the complex and beautiful world of cell biology
:: Posted by American Biotechnologist on 02-06-2012The winner of the 2011 National Science Foundation’s International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced and not surprisingly, one of our favorite contenders, FoldIt! has taken top prize. Since we have written about FoldIt! in the past (see Guilt-Free Computer Gaming for Protein Scientists) we won’t belabor the point any more. However, we will bring to your attention one of the runners up, Meta!Blast which is a serious game that explores the complexities of cellular and metabolic biology.
According to the website, Meta!blast, developed at Iowa State University, is a real-time 3D action-adventure video game, aimed at high school and undergraduate student audiences, meant to provide an entertaining, engaging experience while simultaneously educating players about cell biology. Players discover that their entire lab has been sucked up by a plant cell and it is their job to rescue the group while dodging the hazards associated with the internal cell environment. By immersing players into a virtual cell environment and allowing them to interact with it on their own terms, the developers hope that players will come to a greater understanding of the cell than they could learn from traditional diagrams and textbooks.
The game is available in both windows and mac version and can be downloaded at http://www.metablast.org/downloads