Fwd:, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Every year for this now the 12th year, high school physics teachers have worked together in particle physics research at the University of Notre Dame. Eight weeks each summer of full time research, followed by weekly meetings throughout the academic year. Of course there are teachers who have come and …

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What makes traditional themal cyclers so expensive (and what is Otyp doing differently)? from otyp on Vimeo. Meet James Peyer of Peyer Labs. When I met James and his brother David at HASTI last January, these guys acted as if nearly everybody ought to understand molecular and computational biology, and it was their job to …

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This suite of tools is amazing and free. Try ’em.

My distraction test results, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Click on the image to visit the source. The Technology section in yesterday’s online New York Times Business Day featured an interesting article on gadgets, multitasking and distractibility. (Did I spell that right?) The article was featured in today’s Google Certified Teachers listserve, which is where I …

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2010-06-06_2336, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Hi, all. Kate Rueff mentioned that it might be nice to know how many folks are visiting our blogs. I’ve installed this ad-free counter from Statcounter. Visit their site, tell them yours, create the counter, and grab the code. To insert it, find the design tab in your wordpress blog’s …

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Fun to see. Thanks to James Peyer of Peyer Labs (and NDeRC-Peyer Labs Cloning a fluorescent gene workshop in June!) who buzzed this.

Being up all night doing astronomy seems a lot more interesting than proposal writing on that same schedule.  Just saying. On the other hand, you learn a great deal about what you’re doing, what you want to do, what you should be doing, what you could be doing, and a lot of other doings when …

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This is a Wordle graphic showing the top words–where font size is used to show how frequently each word occurs–in the 2010 Indiana State Science Standards. There’s a great deal to like about these standards: they are more concise in content, and the process standards include both science and engineering principles. The occasion for my …

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NDeRC Forum III survey results, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Today I listened as NDeRC graduate fellows presented graphical representations of various sorts from their research. It seemed only fair to reciprocate. This graphic was downloaded from Surveymonkey.com, which we often use (along with Google Forms) to gather information from program participants. There is a lot …

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CDstamper9microns, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. This is an image of a CD stamper (which does what you might imagine it does) taken with an NanoSurf Easyscan AFM. The scale is ~9 microns (9 thousandths of a millimeter) across the image. AFM is a cool technology: imagine a mirror taped to the back of your hand, …

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