The Night Sky. Really nicely paced slide-based guide on how to read the stars. Loading image-slices sometimes give the game away sadly, would've been better served by flat image maps.
The Night Sky. Really nicely paced slide-based guide on how to read the stars. Loading image-slices sometimes give the game away sadly, would've been better served by flat image maps.
Bell Labs Science Experiment Kits. "These weren't your typical kits like you buy today where you just snap part A to part B and hook up a 9 Volt battery. No, these were in a class of their own."
Make your own vacuum tubes? Not without a lot of skill, time, patience and tools you won't. You can live vicariously though, through this amazing 17 minute video of a French amateur radio operator showing you how he does it.
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder. A fun perspective, not too revelatory though.
Authors@Google: J. Craig Venter. Interesting Q&A session. People eyed him with suspicion when he took commercial funding to help trounce the official government funded effort in the race to sequence the human genome, but here he comes across as sincere and well-meaning.
The pleasure of finding things out - RP Feynman - Google Video. I just finished reading "Don't You Have Time To Think?".
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