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Whether you are a lifelong learner, a student looking for a novel paper topic, or a teacher looking for flexible and primary-sourced material, we hope to have something here to entertain and enlighten.
HISTORY WITH SCIENCE
OH provides short, entertaining stories about little-known people and events told with a science emphasis. Created with the help of educators and students, each OH is based on primary materials and accompanied by supplemental online resources from government agencies, journals, respected publications, as well as other media. The Rabbit Hole curated searches will lead you to related material, always up to date thanks to the power of the internet. OH can be your gateway to inquiry.
Our authors range from amateur historians, educators, interested hobbyists, and professional historians who want to reach a broader audience. If you want to contribute to OH, we want to hear from you!
Batteries and Supercapacitors
The UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is currently working on using graphene as a long-term battery. Although two years old, this short documentary reveals the common, every day tools being used to solve problems in the laboratory, as well as the discovery process that often leads to where you wouldn't expect.
Read this NEWS for an update on their progress.
ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY at the University of Chicago and their work on constructing the super battery. Check out the latest information in their quest to make the better battery.
ELON MUSK has also set batteries in his sights.
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Special Issue (June 2015): MILITARY SCIENCE
FEATURING:
MARCIE HOLMES - "USAF Training: Matching Humans to Machines" (PDF)
BRENDAN WOLFE - "War By Any Other Name" (PDF)
HERBERT WIGNALL - "The Cannons of the Mary Rose" (PDF)
JULIA CHEN - "Columbia: Allegory of America" (PDF)
MICHAEL GOTT - "FU-GO: Japanese War Balloons" (PDF)
DANA ROVANG - "The Illusionists of El Alamein" (PDF) &
"Renato Levi: Forgotten Jewish Double-Agent of WWII" (PDF)
Each website article includes online resources, videos, and "Science Spotlight" sidebars with even more information.
Or download the PDF and take it all with you!
Good airplane pilots
are made, not born. The
United States’ armed services have been making good pilots ever since 1909, when the Army Signal Corps opened the first military training base for pilots in College Park, Maryland. As aircraft have become faster, more maneuverable, and more powerful, so the military’s techniques for selecting and training pilots have become more rigorous and scientific. These techniques - as methods of matching human skills to the operations of machines - helped to make the airplane into the premier example of human-machine interaction, and the ultimate symbol of American technological prowess, in the years before the atomic bomb and the digital computer.
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