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NASA & Made in Space: 3D Printing in Space

2014-04-30T10:16:00.001-07:00

Can This iOS App Improve Your Eyesight?

2014-04-30T10:13:00.001-07:00

Conceptual design of the superconducting super collider

2014-04-28T13:36:00.001-07:00

How does a radiometer work

2014-04-25T21:57:00.000-07:00

The vanes in the radiometer are dark and light in color. The dark dark vanes absorb the sun rays and the light vanes reflect the sun rays. The radiometer spins from the heat of the sun rays.

My MOOC Professor is a Nobel Prize Winner

2014-04-08T07:32:00.000-07:00

Take a class taught by a Nobel Prize winner for free.

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Winner Robert Shiller 2013.
Financial Markets

Nobel Prize Winner Brian Schmidt - Physics 2011.
Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe.
Exoplanets

Essential MOOC Courses for Inventors

2014-04-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.

Coursera:

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society.
Combine fundamental concepts with hands-on design challenges to become a better designer.

Programming for Everybody.
This course aims to teach everyone to learn the basics of programming computers. The course has no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer experience should be able to master the materials in this course.

edX:

Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?.
You have an idea for a product, but do you know who will want to buy it?

Cyber-Physical Systems.
Introduces students to the design and analysis of computational systems that are integrated with physical processes.

Embedded Systems - Shape The World.
Build real-world embedded solutions using a bottom-up approach from simple to complex in this hands-on, lab-based course.

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
Is an introduction to computer science as a tool to solve real-world analytical problems.

Udacity:

How to Build a Startup. The Lean LaunchPad.
Learn the key steps to build a successful startup using the Customer Development process where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather and iterate on feedback.

Intro to the Design of Everyday Things. Design Fundamentals.
This course will provide you with the insight to start recognizing the role of design in today’s world, and to start making better design decisions in your own life.

Primordial gravitational waves, The Inflation and The Big Bang

2014-03-23T11:27:00.001-07:00

The detection of gravitational waves by a team of scientists involved in the BICEP 2 collaboration is a prodigious discovery similar in importance and scale to the discovery of Higgs field and it has consequences for cosmology and our perception of the universe. The discovery has confirmed the last untested prediction of Einstein's Relativity.

The BICEP 2 collaboration, the theoretical physicist Alan Guth, who proposed the Inflationary cosmology in 1980, the Russian American physicist Andrei Linde, who is the father of the Theory of Inflation and Eternal Inflation, may be crowned with Nobel Prize.

The Inflation offers an explanation for some very important problems in cosmology. Inflation makes one prediction, the existence of a primordial gravitational wave background with particular properties. Such gravitational waves would leave a characteristic signature in the CMB maps, namely a slight circular polarization waves.

For detecting the circular polarization wave or the called the B mode signal, BICEP 2 was able to measure features that are 1/100000000 of the CMB signal, which is itself 1/100000000 of the ambient thermal radiation. The BICEP 2 has got to be one of the most precise measurements in the history of science.

The existence of the CMB was a prediction of the Big Bang Theory and its detection provided the best evidence for the Big Bang, the BICEP 2 is the evidence that convinces us that Inflation really happened.

"Create the Future" Contest

2013-04-08T13:45:00.002-07:00

The 11th annual "Create the Future" Design Contest, sponsored by COMSOL, SAE International, and Tech Briefs Media Group, is open for entries. The contest will recognize outstanding innovations in product design worldwide, awarding a Grand Prize of $20,000. There is no cost to enter. Visit www.createthefuturecontest.com to get started.

Entries can be submitted by individuals and/or teams in seven categories: Consumer Products; Electronics; Machinery & Equipment; Medical; Safety and Security; Sustainable Technologies; and Transportation (including Automotive).

General Relativity - Leonard Susskind

2012-12-11T23:55:00.002-08:00

Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible - Keith Devlin

2012-12-11T23:51:00.002-08:00

Science & Cooking - Harvard

2012-09-28T11:30:00.001-07:00

Experiments with Candies, Dice and Colloids

2012-09-12T07:19:00.003-07:00

Paul Chaikin gives a public lecture at the Boulder Condensed Matter Physics summer school 2012 about Experiments with Candies, Dice and Colloids.

Physics of Cooking

2012-09-12T07:17:00.001-07:00

David Weitz gives a public lecture at the Boulder Condensed Matter Physics summer school 2012 about physics of cooking.

New York

2012-06-11T23:46:00.002-07:00

Special Relativity - Leonard Susskind

2012-06-06T20:46:00.001-07:00

Create the Future Design Contest

2012-03-12T09:02:00.002-07:00

The tenth annual "Create the Future" Design Contest, sponsored by COMSOL, Nordson EFD, and Tech Briefs Media Group, has begun and runs through June 30, 2012. The contest is an opportunity to receive global recognition and a cash prize of $20,000 for an innovative new product idea.

For more information go to www.createthefuture2012.com.

Ancient Scientific Instruments

2012-03-10T21:27:00.002-08:00

David Flores is an amateur scientist from Spain and he like building ancient scientific instruments. He has been building more than 100 instruments and all are working models.

Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind - Stanford

2012-02-27T12:23:00.002-08:00

System Biology - Weizmann Institute

2012-02-20T17:41:00.002-08:00

Fighting Poverty with Art

2012-02-13T14:41:00.000-08:00

Lola Apolinario is a plastic artist and she is teaching how to make cute things from waste materials. The students are single mothers from poor zones of Lima. The mothers are learning how to do art from waste and at same time they are building productive chains and markets for their products.

Introduction to Embedded Systems - Berkeley

2012-01-25T17:36:00.000-08:00

Simple Water Pump

2012-01-17T07:08:00.000-08:00

Christopher Valdez is an independent worker with basic skills dedicated to the manufacture and repair of metal structures. Christopher has invented a simple water pump allows improving the water supply, based on a simple pumping system, which allows small producers, stock up on water and also use it to irrigate their farms and small plots of crops such as potatoes, quinoa, beans and others.

Ecological Oven

2012-01-17T06:56:00.000-08:00

Peruvian gastronomie has brought chefs, farmers, inventors and entrepreneurs to work together as they work toward creative solutions. Benjamin Morales is a micro-entrepreneur, was responsible for the development of one such solution — an ecological oven capable of reproducing the thermal conditions characteristic of Pachamanca, an ancient, traditional form of cooking.

Super Broca: low-cost drill bit

2012-01-15T09:53:00.000-08:00

Manufacturing is the main activity undertaken by micro-entrepreneurs in Peru. Jose-Maria Vidal, an inventor and micro-entrepreneur, has developed a low-cost drill bit that can be used to puncture (technically challenging materials) such as glass, marble, ceramics and granite. His drill bit, better known as “Super Broca” is widely used by local manufacturers.

Google Science Fair

2012-01-13T08:18:00.000-08:00