Back in October YouTube asked students, ages 14 to 18, to submit videos with ideas for science experiments for the YouTube Space Lab. They explained that the winning experiments would be performed and live streamed…from space! Which student’s experiment would you like to see performed live from 250 miles above earth?
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Yesterday YouTube announced their new YouTube Space Lab project with Lenovo. They’re asking students, ages 14 to 18, to submit videos explaining ideas for science experiments for space and the winning ideas will be performed and live streamed from the International Space Station.
As has happened in the past, avid and talented online gamers have been tapped to solve puzzles representing the toughest and most complex of diseases. This time around, the solutions to a molecular biology puzzle may lead to new drugs to fight HIV. Read more
From a destructive solar death ray to amazing bubbles, these videos are sure to inspire you to do a little experimenting of your own. So grab your lab coat and safety goggles, and prepare to be entertained!
YouTube pop song spoofs are going to the geeks! An engineer’s ‘Billionaire’ spoof and a scientist Gaga parody are proving that you don’t have to be “cool” to go viral.
If ever online gamers feel a tinge of guilt wasting time, there is now an opportunity to be productive while playing around. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec have developed an online puzzle called Phylo, a program that will help them solve genetic sequencing problems; and they want you.
If you ask someone why they go on Facebook, you should get a lot of different responses. Some will say “I want to stay in touch with friends” or say: “I go just for fun”. But are those the real reasons why people visit Facebook?
Wired.com today launched a new network of what it calls “superstar science bloggers.” Says Betsy Mason, former Contra Costa Times science writer and new Wired.com science editor:
The new Wired Science Blogs network will complement our news stories with more insight, opinion and geeky science details brought to you by people who are extremely knowledgeable and deeply embedded in their fields of interest, which range from infectious diseases to physics.
Among the superstars on the Science Blogs masthead: natural science blogger Brian Switek, Southeastern Louisiana University physics professor Rhett Allain, former newspaper reporter and long-time coverer of the CDC Maryn McKenna, geologist Brian Romans, award-winning science writer David Dobbs, How We Decide author Jonah Lehrer, and Australian DNA data-set researcher Daniel MacArthur.
