Periodic Table of Videos

The Periodic Table of the Elements compresses an amazing amount of information into 118 boxes, one for each chemical element. The most stunn...

Show And Tell--Sharing Science By Video

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) makes hands-on science available by video. Real scientists demonstrate their experiments on li...

How Much Radiation Is Bad For You?

Putting Fukushima In Perspective This excellent chart puts in perspective the various amounts of radiation we might be exposed to....

Climate Change--What We Know and What's Uncertain

The Royal Society has published Climate change: A summary of the science . It has the aim "to summarise the current scientific evidence...

What Is The "Greenhouse" Effect?

This post will help you understand Why the "greenhouse effect" has to do with gases in the atmosphere, How these "greenhouse ...

Latent Heat--Sweat, Storms and Cooling Towers

If you don't understand "latent heat" you can't understand how much of the biosphere or a lot of engineering works. The la...

Plants Unhappy About Global Warming

Rice field in Bangladesh New science raises serious concerns about the negative impact of global warming on crop yields and plant productivi...

Oil Spill Math: How Much Risk for How Much Oil?

How much oil has spilled? Big quantities are sometimes hard to grasp. They are outside our everyday experience. When you hear that millions...

Is There Scientific Consensus on Climate Change?

Research Shows Scientists Agree on Global Warming Researchers at Stanford and the University of Toronto noted that some people dispute wheth...

Know Your Spills--Confusing Names and Oil Quantity Equivalents

Confused about the many names for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Here is a useful list of equivalents. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill--This fol...

Carl Sagen "Sings" of Science (with Dawkins, Hawking, et al.)

Can the coolness of science be conveyed by a sort of synthetic music video? You decide: [If you can't see the video, watch it at YouTube...

Don't Sign If You Can't Do The Math

A recent research paper found that there was a strong correlation between basic understanding of numbers and ability of subprime borrowers t...