Archive for October, 2007

underestimated instruments 3

Monday, October 8th, 2007
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We add the following three instruments to our unsorted and incomplete list of music instruments that deserve more attention than they get (more…)

trenndspotting

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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…just some new color inspirations for the next Paris fashion week…:)

Death Star sighted near earth – Lichtberlin

Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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The above picture clearly shows, that Han Solo exagerated, when he first took the Death Star for a moon. (more…)

additional resources

Friday, October 5th, 2007

The European Women in mathematics – an organisation whose intend is to support woman in mathematics – has added a new ressource, namely the EMS Committee on Women and Mathematics Weblog. The five minute video Women and Mathematics Across Cultures in their latest blog post gives a bit of an overview about EWM and its history.

science lectures on video

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Today Wednesday, Oct 3 the Wired Science Series premieres at 8 p.m. (east coast time?) on PBS. I am usually not announcing new TV shows on this blog, but looking at wired in general i think it will probably be a nice show which deserves more attention.
Among others the Wired Science show is intended for teachers in order to “electrify Science & Tech Instruction”. So if you have access to PBS hurry up, since as I understood the archived online versions are not free (?).

Moreover I would like to use this announcement as an introduction to a pledge for some help from you – the anonymous reader.

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skullful

Monday, October 1st, 2007
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