Multitasking
Test your focus and how fast you juggle tasks at The New York Times interactive features.
More information multitasking studies at http://multitasking.stanford.edu/
Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus)
These interactive tutorials on health and disease topics are easily understandable and helpful resource for anyone looking for introductory information on health issues.
“Avatar” and “Mine: story of a sacred mountain”
"Mine: story of a sacred mountain" is a short made by the Survival International showing uncanny resemblance to the fictional story of Avatar. In Dongria, India (Pandora), a company is willing to displace the native Kondha people (Na'vi) to obtain bauxite, aluminium ore (unobtainium) .
More information on http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/dongria
The Periodic Table
I found it a while ago. I could not locate the source image or the artist and the location of the periodic table yet. It is the perfect example of art and science, with dash of education and nerdyness.
Logorama
Logorama, the Academy award winning animated short film, is one of the most creative and wittiest shorts I have ever seen. The short is about 15 minutes and entirely comprised of allegedly 2,500 logos and characters from the ads. I didn't even noticed 1,000 logos but watching it over again, I found a few more than the first time. Logorama has witty and sometime crude social commentary on modern logo infiltrated society. Sometimes logo behave like the characters of the products they represents , while sometime they behave like a bad stereotype or even what the logo could also represent. There are many subtle pop culture humor in the story. Among many one of my favorite scene (spoiler here ........ so stop reading if you don't want to know any scene from the short) is Ronald McDonald riding a motorbike made from Grease logo getting way from collapsing buildings made from Logo of companies such as Enron and finally falling over after colliding with Weight Watchers' logo. Classic indeed!
Search for video online , itunes or youtube.
BioPhotonics’ article “Exploding cells, one by one”
BioPhotonics has published an article "Exploding cells, one by one" by Anne L. Fischer on our work on direct single cell mass spectrometric analysis at atmospheric pressure.
http://photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=41135
3 Steps of Anthropogenic Climate Change Deniers
- “You're wrong and I can prove it.
- “You're right but it doesn't matter.”
- “It matters but it's too late to do anything about it.”
Summarized from the article “Convincing the climate-change skeptics” by John P. Holdren (2008)
Blog on cultural idiosyncrasies (Nepali)
As someone interested in cultural idiosyncrasies , I have been a big fan of books like Holy Cow and Ciao America. Finally I have found a blog that's just seemed tailor made for me (a Nepali in United States). “Musings from an American-Nepali Household” is a blog of an American woman, who understands Nepali cultures, and eloquently writes on those idiosyncrasies. Highly recommended!
Lost Treasures of Tibet (Mustang)
Nova’s “Lost Treasures of Tibet” discusses the art restoration project in Mustang, Nepal. The most interesting aspect is the philosophical debate on restoration that is shown at the end of the documentary.
PBS Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tibet/