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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Scotch Tape: X-rays of the future

Two weeks off a nobel prize win for work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch Tape. It actually turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off it's rolls in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays!! The researchers even made an x-ray image of one of their fingers. Juan Escobar, a graduate of the University of Los Angeles, California or UCLA suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like crankig. All in all, it's pretty cool to think that something used lets say in a school building everyday can be used to help the world in a big way.

Friday, October 17, 2008

SMARTBOARDS!!!!!!!

Well, guess who it is. It's me Bigdog! Coming to you live from the Internet. Now, one thing I want to talk about is smart boards. This new piece of technology is sweeping all schools of the nation and making learning science more fun. The smart board is a fully featured interactive white board system and transmit the picture from the computer to a monitor, and then displayed on the board. Now, not only is this very cool but it will make learning science a whole lot easier. For example, right before you do a dissection you can do it on the smart board and see what you will be doing when you actually do it. you can also connect to the internet and broadcast your lessons to promote learners or simply publish your work to a sever for archiving and later use. So, as you now clearly see from my awesome lecture smartboards are in and blackboards are out.

Work cited-
http://www.smart-boards.com/?gclid=Cly-oc_yrpYCFQSPFQodtkxVLg