This too shall pass- ok go, and happy new year!!

The carbon around us

A pretty cute story about the rock cycle

I'm also intrigued by Powtoon, the program used to make this video.

The Animal that wouldn't die

When school resumes in January we will be investigating living things, including the make up of cells in plants and animals. The video shows a scientific investigation into a pretty strange organism.

What the inside of an ant hill looks like

Magic Cup, created by the Greek Mathematician Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a mathematician in ancient Greece who developed our understanding of geometry.  The Pythagorean Theorem (a mathematical law) states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (the opposite of the right angle) is equal to the sum of the other two sides.

a² + b² = c²

where c is the hypotenuse

Dancing triangles

How do triangles change shape?

technology being invisible

Photo of Kelly Slates's wave retrieved from, "Did Kelly Slater Just Created the World's Greatest Artificial Wave?" by Dashel Pierson, 12/18/15


kswaveco.com

A few days ago pro surfer Kelly Slater released a rad video about taking ten years to create the perfect man made wave.

Weird decimals

This Numberphile video is a well designed investigation into the properties of circles.  Pi is a decimal with no discovered patterns. Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.  The investigation was researched and implemented by the mathematicians from Numberphile.

Possible life on Europa, Jupiter's moon. From Jet Propulsion Laboratories

Extremophiles: potential for life in the solr system

Planet Song: Order of the planets

Can we stop an asteroid: from ASAP Science

PEMDAS

The Rollie: from Glove and Boots

Earth System History from: National Geographic

Energy Formation

How fossil fuels are made

Ok Go: anything is possible

Pennies: parts of a whole

Information about Uranus: from CPG Grey

Information about the Solar System: from CPR Grey