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thedailywhat:

Coming Soon of the Day: Neil Degrasse Tyson Will Host the Sequel of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

Though it’s been quietly in the works since 2011, Fox has officially confirmed that Carl Sagan’s monumental 1970 sci-ed miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage will be getting an updated sequel next year, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and hosted by one of the Internet’s most celebrated astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fox is hoping the show will have as much as of cultural impact as Carl Sagan’s original series, which still remains one of the most watched PBS series in the world to this day.

(Image by Richard Davies)

colchrishadfield sings:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

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mightyhunter:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers

Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum about important plot points, Twitter is abuzz with spoilers. Fortunately, there’s Twivo, a new program that allows Twitter users to censor their feeds from mentioning a certain TV show (and its characters) for a set time period. Jennie Lamere, a 17-year-old girl, invented the software last month—and won the grand prize at a national coding competition where Lamere was the only female who presented a project, and the only developer to work alone. Internet: Meet the reason we need more women in tech.

(From Mother Jones)

As a PBS junkie this Gritty Reboots trailer PBS: The Movie (PBS Meets The Avengers) features young Bob Ross, Fred Rodgers, Carl Sagan, and Bill Nye, is amazeballs!

world-shaker shares:

Coursera announces category for Teacher Professional Development

You can view them all here: https://www.coursera.org/courses?cats=teacherpd

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jtotheizzoe:

I like this photo even better, it’s like the public broadcasting version of Inception.

If you’re confused why I was on TV for a few seconds, it’s to get viewers like you* to watch my PBS Digital Studios series, in case you somehow hadn’t heard about that yet.

*See what I did there? Call and donate now for your tote bag/coffee mug.

ebookporn:

auyeah:

Leave virtual notes or images on surfaces for augmented reality view, digitally overlaying the real world. Hello future!

Imagine your class syllabus overlaying the library stacks. Customized museum tours, and Goodread recommendations as you walk through a Barnes & Noble - this is very cool. 

(via thelearningbrain)

Tactus Technology has created a haptic touchscreen panel that “rises” to create a three-dimensional keyboard. Writing an e-mail on your tablet? Individual letter keys form small bumps for easier typing. When you’re done, the keyboard reverts back to a standard, flat touchscreen.

Even cooler is the fact that the Tactus Technology panels can be configured to do more than just rise up into a physical keyboard. Companies can customize the panel for different types of buttons, say for example, the buttons on a TV remote or buttons for specific tablet games. The possibilities for the panel are varied. Plus, seeing the buttons lift up, seemingly out of nowhere, is downright magical.

thedailywhat declares:

Shut Up and Take My Money of the Day: PaperTab

Brace yourselves, e-paper tablets are coming. The Human Media Lab at Queen’s University has developed a flexible tablet device known asPaperTab in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs that looks and feels just like a sheet of paper, but with a versatile touchscreen, high-resolution display and the second generation Intel® Core i5 processor. Recently unveiled at the International CES in Las Vegas, the tablet could be commercially ready within three to five years, according to researchers at Queen’s University.

(via thelearningbrain)

A Sincere Compliment

We really need to push our students to make a change in their world and highlight how social media can give them an opportunity that we never were given as students.  Just being “citizens” online is the average; kids already exist online.  We should be pushing for much more than this.  Hopefully the video can serve as an example and conversation starter for what a person can really do now to make a difference.

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thisistheverge inks:

First ever video of giant squid is amazing

Eyes the size of dinner plates

gjmueller chants “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”

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This is why my sister is amazing.

howstuffworks:

Tech Stuff podcast: Was Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer?

Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (aka Augusta Ada Byron) — born this day, December 10th, in 1815. A gifted mathematician and daughter of the infamous Lord Byron, Ada met one Charles Babbage at a party when she was 17 and became fascinated by the mathematician’s Analytical Engine — a kind of mechanical computer that could make complex calculations, including multiplication and division. From that chance meeting grew a strong, dynamic relationship. Ada discussed Babbage’s ideas with him and offered her own insights. In 1843, she published an influential set of notes describing Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Ada also added in some sage predictions, speculating that Babbage’s mechanical computers might one day “act upon other things besides numbers” and “compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity …”

Listen in on Tech Stuff’s classic podcast to learn lots more.

[Image by Colin Adams, based on the original A. E. Chaton portrait, for the Ada Initiative.]

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BACON CATURDAY!

So you probably remember this fou lard scarf..? It is even more amazing and beautiful in your hands - I can’t wait to wear all over this holiday! (If my cat doesn’t eat it…)

Thank you Natalie Luder!

Time-lapse writing of a research paper

A research paper version of Noah Kalina’s photo project by Timothy Weninger. Weninger saved versions of the paper at various stages of writing, and strung them together in a time-lapse video.