The crafty little caterpillar above is known as a wavy-lined emerald moth or camouflaged looper (Synchlora aerata). It is a species of moth of the Geometridae family and can be found in most of North America. The wingspan is about 17 mm and adults are green with scalloped or wavy white transverse lines. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
The Urban Oasis Hydroponic Farm in Tampa, Florida is using vertical hydroponics to grow crops of plants. Via Alan Yoshioka, Kalani Kirk Hausman 
"The creator of Brain Pickings on how to think outside the corporate box."
An interview with Maria Popova : fascinating to see how her routine works for her. Unsurprisingly, it involves a huge amount of reading.
It's also interesting to see the criteria she uses for what she'll just tweet vs what she'll pick up for her blog. Via gdecugis 
What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather gnomic answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know.
Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge, which leads to improved learning outcomes, writes lead author Helen Askell-Williams of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Via Dennis T OConnor, Dr. Richard NeSmith 
NASA considering space station for Mars dry runThe Associated Press(AP) — The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years. 
Augmented Reality promises the change our world. Here are 11 of the most useful Augmented Reality Apps for iPhone and Android Smartphones. Via Pekka Puhakka, JoelleYalin, Sarantis Chelmis This documentary follows the debate about luxury which convulsed ancient Greece from the beginning of the classical era. In Athens, it explores the role of l... Via Panayiotis ![Journey Into The Universe | Visual.ly [INFOGRAPHICS] | My Science | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/w0xuPwy2TzKkvSdC1TiRpTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
When primitive man gazed at the void of heaven, his eyes discerned at most a few thousand stars - a serene and limited universe. Via Sakis Koukouvis, ABroaderView 
Next Generation University Via OLnet Team, Alastair Creelman 
We, human beings, constitute a part of this environment and need to find ways to preserve it for future generations. Modern industrial development of domestic chemicals created new environmental problems. 
With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between computers and humans, search engine executive chairman says. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino, Sakis Koukouvis 
When Microsoft’s Kinect -- a device that lets Xbox users control games with physical gestures -- hit the market, computer scientists immediately began hacking it. Via Sakis Koukouvis
Pretty interesting to see how useful this will prove for curating tweets directly from permalinks. The end of screen capturing is over and this is good news for curators, isn't it?
And cool to see it's working on Scoop.it very nicely :-) Via gdecugis |
Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
Quick quiz: which consumes more power, an "energy-efficient" 55-inch LED TV, or the 90-foot "Patterned by Nature" video installation at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences? It's actually a trick question, because ... 
What tiny parachutes and a man named Wolfgang have to do with the future of all living species. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
The Pirate Bay is one of the largest and most popular bittorrent trackers still around today, and it has no plans to retire anytime soon. Despite news of other large torrent trackers shutting down, The Pirate Bay has no intentions [ ... Make sure to watch this full-screen with the sound on! Atacama Starry Nights: Episode I Astronomer's Paradise is the first episode of a Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. Via Sakis Koukouvis Lee Lefever has made of Common Craft the company-to-go-to to get complex stuff about the Internet explained in an easy way. Here is a recent classic about SEO. Via Robin Good, ABroaderView 
emerging design ideas of biomimicry, critical creativity, sustainability and strategic thinking. About · How is the Eastgate Building NOT like a Termite Mound? →. Deep Principles from Nature. Posted: January 5, 2012 | Author: Carl Hastrich ... Via Rowan Edwards Lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique, and now that information is everywhere some say it's a waste of time. Now, physicists have the data to prove it. But efforts to lose the lecture encounter resistance — sometimes from students. Via Alastair Creelman Double click on for an index of all diaries. For additional information on carbon market and climate. policy events, please join the Reuters online carbon community. at;. http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon ... 
With 15 choices of race on the census form, more than 18 million Latinos have been checking “other,” reflecting the group’s diverse self-image. Via Alexandra Herazo Ferrer 
If the combination of neuroscience, psychology and education (“Mind, Brain, and Education science) is the way we should approach teaching from now on, what exactly are the lessons we can apply to the classroom? Via Sarantis Chelmis, Sakis Koukouvis
If the combination of neuroscience, psychology and education (“Mind, Brain, and Education science) is the way we should approach teaching from now on, what exactly are the lessons we can apply to the classroom? Via Sarantis Chelmis, Sakis Koukouvis |
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