Fascinating. Via @h3h
science
Mysterious Underwater ‘Crop Circles’ Discovered Off the Coast of Japan
The Richard Feynman Trilogy: The Physicist Captured in Three Films
Oooh, must watch. via @matthewpennell
Democracy and the Cult of Ignorance
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
Sadly, painfully true.
Found via Daring Fireball.
Sciencebob.com
Science Experiments, Videos, and Science Fair Ideas
The Kid Should See This.
A collection of “off-the-grid-for-little-kids videos and other smart stuff” compiled by @riondotnu and her three year old. The videos run the gamut, as noted on the site:
“There’s just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…
“But we don’t underestimate kids around here.”