The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University is challenging scientists to take part in the 2014 Flame Challenge and answer a vibrant question asked by 11-year-olds from around the country: What is Color? The Flame Challenge is an international contest started by Alan Alda that asks scientists to communicate complex science in ways that would interest and enlighten an 11-year-old. If you are a scientist, or a teacher of 11 year olds, join the fun!
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The second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards have come and gone (comment period was in January 2013). The January 2013 draft version has been removed from the official website, but you can still find it here.
The following colloquium is free and open to all. Dr. Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis, will present his lecture, “Measuring the Universe with Gravitational Lenses” on Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 4pm in Mendocino Hall 1015, Sacramento State University. This lecture is free and open to the public. Chris Fassnacht received his AB degree from Harvard College and immediately afterward joined the Peace Corps, where he served as a secondary school math and science teacher in Ghana, West Africa. After returning, he received a PhD from Caltech. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM and…
Here’s a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYKjR1sJY4 a mid-infrared (MIR) image showing the flash of the Centaur impact: www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/moon-impact-data-and-images-from-lcross-first-glance/mir-flash-detection/ and an image of an even larger impact we performed about 40 years ago: the Apollo 14 booster stage for calibrating Apollo 12’s seismometers: www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/lro-spots-apollo-14-booster-crash-site-on-moon/ And NASA’s LCROSS page: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/
By Robert Sanders, UCB Media Relations | 21 July 2009 Complete article here: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/21_bruise.shtml The scar from the probable impact appeared July 19 in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, and has grown to a size greater than the extent of the Pacific Ocean. This infrared image taken with Keck II on July 20 shows the new feature observed on Jupiter and its relative size compared to Earth. (Paul Kalas ,UCB; Michael Fitzgerald, LLNL/UCLA; Franck Marchis, SETI Institute/UCB; James Graham, UCB) BERKELEY — Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean.…