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Physics Education Technology (PhET to its friends) is the slick but not very meaningful title of a site that offers a wide range of excellent interactive physics simulations for secondary-school and university students.
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Holding this book in my hands as I boarded what would be an eight-hour flight, I planned to read the modest 204 pages whilst airborne. When we landed, I had managed just 70, thanks to all the observation, thinking and note-taking that Inflight Science: A guide to the world from your airplane window…
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How can the architecture of a school influence its teaching? Allan Andersen, head teacher of Copenhagen’s Ørestad Gymnasium, tells Adam Gristwood and Eleanor Hayes.
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Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology is a collection of two-page articles that briefly describe discoveries from the field of biotechnology.
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The question that astronauts are most frequently asked is ‘How do you go to the toilet in space?’ This rather puts the cart before the horse because the next most popular questions concern the other end of the alimentary canal: ‘How do you eat in space?’, ‘What does the food taste like up…
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Campus Berlin-Buch is a science, health and biotechnology park in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on biomedicine.
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TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a non-profit organisation that began as a conference to share “ideas worth spreading”. The first of its annual conferences was held in 1984 and since then, the programme has spread to include regional and local events across the world (see the…
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Have you ever wondered how best to make students aware of the issues surrounding our current fossil-fuel-intensive lifestyle? After all, they stand a good chance of seeing fossil fuels perhaps not run out but become unaffordable in their lifetime.
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For someone interested in learning about obesity, Globesity: A planet out of control? is an excellent book to start with and, unless preparing for a doctorate thesis, possibly to finish with.
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The Rough Guide to the Brain is a thoroughly readable, interesting and informative book.
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The PhET website
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Inflight Science: A guide to the world from your airplane window, by Brian Clegg
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Designing a school: taking science out of the classroom
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Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology, by Reinhard Renneberg
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The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More, by Charles T Bourland and Gregory L Vogt
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Translations – from today’s science to tomorrow’s medicine in Berlin-Buch, by Russ Hodge
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The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website
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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay
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Globesity: A planet out of control? By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth
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The Rough Guide to the Brain, by Barry J Gibb
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