Because I’m working on developing a video game about electricity, I’ve been reading a lot about how batteries work, I want to put a level in the game that helps students understand more about batteries, and hopefully inspire them to push the boundaries of our technology in the future. The basic idea of a battery […]
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School is a Virtual World
As you look above you, you see negative ions flying towards you, pushing away the positive ones, which look just like you. The negative Ions stick to you only from certain direction, as you merge into a molecule you start moving around space bumping into the other molecules randomly, but electricity being electricity you find […]
Read more "School is a Virtual World"Learning, Story telling and the Origin of the Universe
Some scientists suggest that what made our species special, and what caused it to explode and dominate the planet is our ability to understand and tell stories. I heard this while watching this lecture on artificial intelligence last week, it did not make immediate sense to me. However now after reflecting on what a story […]
Read more "Learning, Story telling and the Origin of the Universe"The Universe Does Interesting things!
50 ktons of water, 3000 feet underground, almost 40m by 40m in size, build by thousands of humans to detect almost massless particles (neutrinos) change type from one to another as they pass through earth to the other side of the planet. <img class=”progressiveMedia-noscript js-progressiveMedia-inner” src=”https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*p8xO0lFIQVKuCi6yG9pMIQ.jpeg”> Scientists trying to understand how bubbles burst by hitting […]
Read more "The Universe Does Interesting things!"Don’t Worry, You’re Going to Die
Title might be strange to some people, a lot of people hate thinking about death (they prefer to be taken by surprise), however for me it’s always been part of my philosophy in life to remember that this thing I’m in called being alive is precious and temporary, so when I saw this video, […]
Read more "Don’t Worry, You’re Going to Die"Education is the story of Civilization
I just started reading the first volume of the “story of civilization” by Will Durant, it’s promising to be a really exciting read, Durant brings history to life. The first thing that caught my attention after reading a few pages is how much I’m taking for granted the civilizations that I live in, everything I […]
Read more "Education is the story of Civilization"My Vision
Today is one of those day were I keep thinking about my goals for the future, it’s usually clear to me what I want to do, but my mind sometimes keeps running like crazy thinking about my mission, I guess I have a craving for more and bigger meaning in life, and it’s hard to […]
Read more "My Vision"Can you learn physics by playing?
have you ever played a game all night long even though you were tired, and losing more often than winning you still kept going and you were in a state of flow and you loved it? I have. I’ve also had the same experience with learning physics. To some people learning physics is awful, and […]
Read more "Can you learn physics by playing?"What if there were no babies?
As you know light travels at a very fast but finite speed, which means this image above that you are looking at is of galaxies and structures as they were billions of years ago, there maybe no similar galaxies in the present universe to the ones in the picture. This is lucky for us, because […]
Read more "What if there were no babies?"Learning is Delicious
I remember when I was a 13 year old teenager I used to get very bored, at the extreme I was banging my head on the wall and screaming “I’m bored!!” to annoy my parents. I had friends that I can go out and play with but we had to wait till the hot Jordan […]
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