With the help of their teacher, four Spanish students aged 18-19 managed to launch a balloon which carried electronic sensors, including a cheap camera, to an altitude of 20 miles above the Earth’s surface. How that’s for a D.I.Y. project?
The Telegraph: Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
If you’ve been wanting to go back to school but either can’t afford it or can’t work it into your schedule, this list of over 200 free online classes is an educational gold mine. Subjects includes the sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science, language, arts, design, health, agriculture, law, politics, history, theology, business, finance, education and [...]
If you’re on a budget or just want to travel light, Book-bot.com has a collection of over 14,000 books which you can read online at their website. All the books listed are over 75 years old and no longer under US copyright, so they are now considered “public domain” and available for free.
A sampling of [...]
Using actual flight info from a single August day in 2008, Artist Aaron Kolbin created images which have now been merged with a Google Map and featured in Wired.com. Have a look, and note that as with any Google Map, you can double click to zoom in on a particular location (and get a better [...]
