Poluição

Despejo de influentes industriais não tratados nos rios.

Trabalhos de Ciências

Mãe, não percebo este exercício sobre chá de açúcar, chá de sal e chá de farinha!
...
Deixa ver: "Adicionar 2 colheres de chá de açúcar, 2 colheres de chá de sal, 2 colheres de chá de farinha."

Rochas

Rochas magmáticas, rochas sedimentares, rochas metafóricas...

Estudo do esqueleto

Luke: Costelas - 7 verdadeiras, 3 falsas, 2 voadoras!

Ciência

Luke: Mark, o teu dióxido de carbono cheira mal!

Mark: Quê? Não percebi bem. Dioxi Carvalho?

Um higrómetro serve para...

... medir a água do tecto!

Tempos livres

Diversos ATLs, experimentados ou a experimentar:

Praia:

Praia Campo da CML (ver juntas de freguesia)

Ar livre:

Monsanto

Jardim Botânico da Ajuda

Animais:

Zoo Lisboa

Oceanário

Desporto:

Ginásio Clube Português

Estádio Universitário de Lisboa

Sport Lisboa e Benfica - futebol e polidesportivo

Sport Algés e Dafundo - geral e vela

Ciência:

Museus da Politécnica

Pavilhão do Conhecimento

Science4you - FCUL

Artes:

Gulbenkian

CCB

Museu Berardo

Primeiro Estranha-se...

Listas:

Ateliers de Férias - blogspot

Bionic eye

EyeClops Bionic Eye

Something BIG is going on, but it's too small to see with the human eye. Enter the EyeClops® world with the award-winning Bionic Eye! Plug into any TV to turn it into a microcosm of eye-popping wonder! Everyday objects look amazing at 200x magnification. Salt looks like blocks of ice! Hair looks like twisted rope! Your own skin looks like something out of a science fiction movie!

And you can spot LICE! Yes, the high season has started...

Anatomia

Luke: Mãe, o Mark diz que o estôgamo não é em cima dos incestinos, mas é!

Sobre a Teoria da Evolução

Mark: Como é que nascem os macacos? Os meninos nascem dos macacos, e os macacos nascem do quê?
Luke: Há macacos que ficam macacos, outros que ficam meninos, outros que ficam gorilas...
Mark: Outros que ficam elefantes! Hahahaha!
Luke: Outros que ficam hipopótamos gordos como a mãe! Hahahahahahaha!

Snif, snif!

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day!

Coral, crochet and maths

Crochet Coral and Anemone Garden
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, The Institute for Figuring

Crochet model of hyperbolic plane
Hyperbolic Space online exhibit, The Institute for Figuring

Margaret Wertheim:
TED interview - Crocheting in hyperbolic space
TED Talks - The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry

London, Easter 2009 - day 4

First stop: Natural History Museum. We got no queue at the side entrance, which was a big bonus (the main entrance always had huge queues and we had seen a big enough queue at the side entrance, on both days we went to the Science Museum). Entering that way, we headed first to the volcanoes, earthquakes, etc, at the Red Zone, but gave up quickly as it was not very suitable for the kids age. So, down to the Green Zone, where we wandered among birds (saw some dodos!), primates and trees (it's a bit of a blur...), heading towards the Central Hall. Big stop at the shop, of course, and thanks Fiona for the presents! Then finally the Blue Zone with the dinosaurs (mobbed, again!) and mammals (blue whale). Crappy lunch at the museum and finish off with the Creepy Crawlies, which were rather good. And emerge for some air!!!

Second stop: a bit of fresh air! St James's Park, Buckingham Palace and Green Park (see Royal Parks). A bit of a disaster as Mark hurt himself at the playground.

London, Easter 2009 - day 3

The Science Museum again, but this time much better.

First stop: brief visit to Making the Modern World.

Second stop: Who Am I?. On the photo, Mark has just won the game "sperm race" and made a boy. That must make me a grandmother...

Third stop: Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas. Really great!

More W&G:

Fourth stop: nice lunch at a nearby tapas place. Great to be able to get away from the heat and lack of air.

Fifth stop: Deep Sea 3D at the IMAX. The kids didn't like the glasses we had to wear, and Neil and Fiona didn't feel confortable, so it was not a great success, but I liked it.

Sixth stop: Pattern Pod, a very interesting hands-on gallery to explore patterns and learn about symmetry. The best were the kaleidoscope figures the kids could make, as can be seen in the photos.

London, Easter 2009 - day 2

Today's highlight... or should I say lowlight? - The Science Museum. Nothing against the museum itself, but the day was just not great. The weather was pretty grey and wet and that is why we decided on indoors. To start with, we had to queue outside and it was mobbed. Then we went to the basement for some storytelling, Icy Cool Adventure, and the kids just ignored what they were told to do by the storyteller (it is supposed to be interactive...). Then, when we were exploring The Garden, a hands-on kiddies section, we had to be evacuated as there was a fire alarm. It has to be said that the evacuation was pretty smooth, and everybody was calm, but it was a pain to have to wait outside for quite a while, with fire engines as sole entertainment, and we ended up missing our IMAX session, with Adele and Iona. Ok, we were refunded, but it was still a pain. When we went back, and while Neil dealt with the refund, we briefly visited Making the Modern World, but the kids were not convinced exhibits were not to be touched... The model trains, with buttons to get them moving, saved this exhibition! Then, we headed straight for the launchpad, which would have been great were it not for the mob, the heat, the noise. We did see a show there, about Newton's laws (with some explosions to amuse the kids), which was good, but the kids were by then tired and restless. So, home, James!

Natural History in London

While we wait to see them "live", here is the dino directory. Of course we will also try to see the Central Hall, the big blue whale, the volcanoes...

Cute, sexy, sweet and funny

Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle

Science in London

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871, from Museum Objects
(see also Making the Modern World)

Besides going to the Wallace & Gromit exhibition and the IMAX cinema, we will also see the permanent exhibition at the Science Museum. Here's what it looks like, minus kids (from The Science Museum at youtube). We will obviously take the kids!

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Today: Gulbenkian, 18h, Olivia Judson (watch it here).

DR. TATIANA'S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

Do your genitals explode? Are you 200,000 times smaller than your mate? Do you drug your lover with a potion that keeps her faithful? You may not get up to such tricks, but some creatures do: sex is one of the most powerful forces in nature, and generates an astounding diversity of forms and behaviors. But why?

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation explores the science of sex, considering everything from why females of so many species are so promiscuous to why sex exists at all. It is a blend of wit and rigor, a fusion of science and natural history, that will entertain, amaze, and inform.

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, the book, has been translated into more than 15 languages. World-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has described it as a "winningly sophisticated zoological comedy." The book was shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious award for nonfiction, the Samuel Johnson prize, and has won the BIOSIS award for communicating zoology from the Zoological Society of London.

Dr Tatiana has been adapted to a TV show, and is quite possibly the most original science documentary ever made. Get ready for sex like you've never seen it before!

More:
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - wiki
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - channel 4
The Wild Side, New York Times, by Olivia Judson

Polar Bear in London!

A life-like 16ft high sculpture of an iceberg featuring a stranded polar bear and its cub was launched on the Thames today to mark the launch of the new Natural History TV channel Eden. Edens programming starts at 9am, Monday 26th January 2009, with Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World at 10pm. Further information about the programmes can be found at: www.exploreeden.co.uk.