science

GeekBeat.TV and bnetTV.com Review Our CTV App

by Mary Louise Helbig January 20, 2011 General Interest

Take a few minutes and check out Josh’s interviews with Cali Lewis of GeekBeat.TV and Tony Sklar of bnetTV.com at the CES.  Josh appears at about the 3 minute mark during Cali’s review of Yahoo! CTV’s new apps and its a straight 1:1 with Tony. Virtual Nerd’s CTV app is coming March 2011!  Stay tuned.

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Check out Pocket Science’s take on NASA’s “life-changing” discovery

by Josh Salcman January 11, 2011 General Interest

Yes, this news is “so 2010″, but we just discovered George Zaidan’s awesome video about it:

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A Computer, an Avatar and a Math Lesson

by Josh Salcman December 8, 2010 General Interest
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In the popular virtual reality game The Sims, computer characters behave based on the attributes given to them by players, and have some of their own apparent “free will.” The digital pet game Tamagotchi requires children to feed, clean and nurture their pets, who respond and grow based on the children’s care. Both are examples [...]

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President Celebrates Winners of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Competitions

by Josh Salcman November 20, 2010 General Interest
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Last month, President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair in Washington to celebrate the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. The White House Science Fair is in keeping with a commitment the President made at the launch of his Educate to Innovate campaign last November to move [...]

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Teaching Math through TV

by Leo Shmuylovich November 15, 2010 General Interest
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Fun and math don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Like Sudoku and checkers, TV shows such as the recently cancelled Numb3rs can help students apply mathematics to real-life situations and be entertained at the same time. Though no longer on the air, Numb3rs, the popular math-based crime solving series, is widely available on Netflix and [...]

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Science Nerds ARE Really Cool!

by Mary Louise Helbig October 7, 2010 General Interest

An overdue congratulations to Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory (CBS) for winning a 2010 Emmy for his lead role in a comedy series. Thanks for showing the world Nerds are cool. And while we love our science nerds, we were also glad to see one of our other favorites, Matthew [...]

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Check out this excellent collection of videos about math and science being put to use

by Josh Salcman April 18, 2010 General Interest
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Convoluted context alert! I found out about this site thanks to a comment posted by someone named Harley on this article about Virtual Nerd, which appeared on the website physorg.com. Harley had this to say: Excellent site – really like the “drill-down” to handle questions within a question, while not losing the “thread” of the overall [...]

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