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TinkerBox HD for iPad on the iTunes App Store
“TinkerBox is a fun, free-to-play physics puzzle game. While it is full of interesting science facts and teaches basic “
- – By valerie taylor
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How We Measure the Universe, Animated | Brain Pickings
“How do we actually use these numbers to measure the universe? That’s precisely what the Royal Observatory Greenwich answers in this wonderful short animation, a teaser for a new exhibition titled Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos”
- – By valerie taylor
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Rover – The FREE education browser for your iPad!
“Rover is the only education browser for your iPad, designed specially for teachers and students of all ages. Rover brings the best K-12 online learning content to your fingertips, including access to content ordinarily unavailable on the iPad (e.g. Flash content). Rover is powered by the iSwifter platform (the world’s first cloud-based Flash streaming platform for mobile devices), and is specifically designed based on guidance from teachers, IT directors and administrators from schools around the country. “
- – By valerie taylor
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YALSA’s Teen Book Finder App (love it!) « NeverEndingSearch
“the ability to search for books by author, title, award/list year, genre, by award, and by booklist
a Find It! button, powered by the OCLC WorldCat Search API, that will show users where to find the book in a nearby library
a Favorites button, to create an individualized booklist”- – By valerie taylor
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Short Sharp Science: Going over the edge, gecko style
“You’re running as fast as you can with your enemies in hot pursuit. Up ahead your road runs out – the landscape comes to an abrupt halt at a cliff edge. What can you do? Well, if you’re a cockroach or a gecko, you keep running at full pelt into thin air, you grab the edge with your hindmost feet, you swing under the ledge and grab to the underside. You’re left hanging upside down, hidden from your attacker.”
- – By valerie taylor
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New Scientist TV: How to hack a snail to create a living battery
“The researchers demonstrated that an “electrified” snail could be a living battery producing up to 7 milliwatts. Although the power output decreased rapidly, feeding the snail could partially refuel it straight away. Alternatively, allowing the snail to rest for about half an hour would allow it to recharge. “
- – By valerie taylor
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Delete Site-Specific Cookies in Safari on iOS
“You can delete specific cookies from Safari in iOS fairly easily, though the setting to do so is buried a bit. Here is exactly how to remove individual site cookies from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:”
- – By valerie taylor
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Delete Site-Specific Cookies in Safari on iOS
“You can delete specific cookies from Safari in iOS fairly easily, though the setting to do so is buried a bit. Here is exactly how to remove individual site cookies from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:”
- – By valerie taylor
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iCivics- teaching students civics through games
“iCivics is a great way for students to learn about civics in the United States. The site features 16 educational video games that help students understand our government. In addition to the great games, iCivics has great standards-aligned civics curriculum available for free to teachers! Games include topics like: Citizenship and Participation, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Budgeting, Foreign Policy and National Defense, Separation of Powers, the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. “
- – By valerie taylor
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Skeptic » Junior Skeptic » Explore Junior Skeptic!
“Bound into every issue of Skeptic magazine, Junior Skeptic is an engagingly illustrated science and critical thinking publication for younger readers. “
- – By valerie taylor
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“Turn your iPad into a public kiosk! Kiosk Pro Lite is designed to present your online, web-friendly content and media as a customized kiosk app. Kiosk Pro Lite is the free basic version of our popular Kiosk Pro line of apps, which allow you to customize how your web content is presented on the iPad.”
- – By valerie taylor
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E.S.P. Emergency Substitute Pilot checklist
“E.S.P. CheckMate is a 1st for Aviation.
Our new “Emergency Substitute Pilot”tm could save the lives of you and your passengers by providing the most basic and simplest of terms and procedures to the NON-PILOT, in the unfortunate event the real pilot becomes incapacitated. E.S.P. CheckMatetm assists the NON-PILOT in controlling the aircraft, reaching help on the radio, and if necessary, landing the aircraft. The graphical format makes it easy and comfortable to follow. E.S.P. CheckMatetm can easily be the difference in the outcome of this most serious type of emergency.”- – By valerie taylor
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