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Our Whole New Look
on Jun 5, 2008Check out the live beta of the new All the Best Bits web site! It should be more usable and accessible. We'll keep this site running as traffic picks up over at the new digs, but please do check it out and post comments at either blog to let me know...
San Francisco Bay Area from the ISS
on May 2, 2008 in Astronomy Here's a neat image of the Bay Area taken from the International Space Station. I particularly like the visible outflow from the receding tide through the Golden Gate as well as the visible colored salt ponds in the south bay.In this photograph of t...
Glass Frog
on Apr 4, 2008 in Biology ...
MA Regional First Championships
on Mar 31, 2008 in Robotics Engineering Education During my trip to Boston last week for the National Science Teacher's Association conference (more on that later) I totally lucked out in also catching the FIRST Robotics League Northeastern Regional Championships. If you haven't been to one, you si...
Sneaking Out of the House to Build Robots
on Mar 29, 2008 in Robotics Engineering Education My favorite story from the whole FIRST Northeastern Regional competition was revealed in the delivery of the "Woodie Flowers" award. Woodie, you see, is the MIT professor who founded FIRST with Dean Kamen of Segway fame, after starting the legenda...
Shuttle and ISS
on Mar 24, 2008 in Astronomy ...