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Support
Blogs
Important Forms
Links from 2012/13 School Year
| 4/13 |
Theremin spying,
basic
idea behind theremin
What makes
up a theremin
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| 4/13 |
How paricle
accelerator works |
| 4/13 |
Smart
Lighting Link; and draft of our
project goals |
| 4/13 |
Econ Hw link on GDP |
| 3/13 |
Futurist Faith
Popcorn, Forbes
explains futurists |
| 3/13 |
Business
Plan page (and guiding slides) |
| 3/13 |
For evaluation: nuclear,
solar,
biofuel,
transmission,
turbines,
fossil
fuel |
| 2/13 |
Energy Poster Template
A , template
B, template
C, Full example |
| 2/13 |
Mr Scovello's wind
energy presentation |
| 1/13 |
Great all
around info on energy conservation at home; if emissions
correlate to efficiency; residential
energy; driving
(verify these stats); energy losses in vehicle;
energy appliances;
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| 1/13 |
Link for renewable
energy incentives. |
| 1/13 |
Lego mechanics |
| 12/12 |
Excel
file for economics class on 12/13 |
| 12/12 |
Statistical value of a life ("economic
life") |
| 12/12 |
Visuals: nested,
layered,
subset,
use
of colors and symbols |
| 12/12 |
Economics of Aging;
Cost of
drug discovery; Impact of new
pharmaceuticals |
| 11/12 |
ACS
bibliography |
| 11/12 |
Cliffs
and Rockets
resources |
| 11/12 |
GREAT way to make practice
questions. |
| 11/12 |
3-D brain warmers: cube,
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| 11/12 |
Most amazing transcription
and translation
animations I've ever seen! |
| 11/12 |
bioluminescence in jellyfish
and biological function of gfp
in nature |
| 10/12 |
Vote Smart 'vote
easy" |
| 10/12 |
Physics of Felix
and sonic booms |
| 10/12 |
Paper aerodynamics.
and a good video |
| 10/12 |
Clean room template
and equipment
list and by place
in the room (not sure how up to date) |
| 10/12 |
Famous conclusions |
| 10/12 |
Microbial fuel cells |
| 10/12 |
Capitalization: It's a Communist
who practices communism in a communist nation under Communist
leaders.. See B17
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| 10/12 |
An interesting analysis of spending
or from a different perspective. |
| 9/12 |
Great timeline
of Arab Spring |
| 9/12 |
Mr. Cowill's Power
Pt presentation or as PDF |
| 9/12 |
Dot
product conceptualization |
| 9/12 |
Scroll down for "Origins
and Evolution of Soviet State" and scroll down here
for a look at Stalin. |
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Silicon
run movie |
Physics Links
Links to Engineering Humor
Links Used in Previous Years
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| 12/17 |
Lego contruction examples:
RCX,
but cool ideas
Tread
example
official
NXT ideas including castor bot
NXT fork
lift
Creative
instructions
More
creative ideas - claws, scorpions, more
Sudoku
solver?!
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| 12/15 |
Lego links:. PDF files showing detailed
explanations of programs. Program examples from NXT
blog. Events.
Multiple events.
Proportional control.
Random
fork. |
| 12/9 |
Intro to mechanics |
| 12/7 |
Robolab patch |
| 10/10 |
Examples of how to format posters. Examples
were provided to me years ago by Rensselaer's Center for Future
Energy Systems example
1, example 2,
example 3. Don't just
steal them. Use them as ideas to fomat your own posters. |
| 10/1 |
Future of graphene |
| 9/24 |
Mr. Colwill's solar presentation. |
| 9/12/11 |
Debunking 9/11
link. |
| 2011 |
Smart
energy communities |
| 2011 |
Putting clean
energy into your community - a whole site full of real ideas |
| 2011 |
Raise gas prices higher? |
| 2011 |
Re-invent the whole
community |
| 11/23 |
Small
towns and high fuel costs |
| 10/28 |
How fuel cells work:
NOVA
How
Stuff Works
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| 10/20 |
Cost of fossil fuel:
This seems to be a reasonable source:
http://nuclearfissionary.com/2010/04/02/comparing-energy-costs-of-nuclear-coal-gas-wind-and-solar/
You may very well find sources that disagree, based on what
they see as "cost". But this offers supporting documentation
as well as a spread sheet that you can use and adapt for yourself.
Obviously the website has an agenda, but I think the data is
sound.
Here is a site for retail gasoline prices:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_home_page.html
Here is some supporting information about profit. It's from
2008, but I think the percentages are relatively unchanged:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/13/news/economy/gas_gallon/index.htm?cnn=yes
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| 9/20/10 |
Examples of complex diagrams:
a) get many ideas by searching "images" for complex
biological processes such as "protein synthesis",
"carbon cycle" and so on. You will see how some
images are far more appealing and convey much more information
than others.
b) Sankey
diagrams form a great "backbone" for a poster
one
- scroll down to nitrogen cycle, two
- lots of cool complicated diagrams; great examples ,three
- scroll down to funky venn diagram, four
- scroll down to first color diagram at bottome, five,
scroll down to life cycle diagram; six-
Wall Steet Scandal diagram; seven
-scroll down to "case solved" ;
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| 9/15/10 |
Oil imports,
scroll down to exhibit 4-20 & 4-21 1 in particular |
| 9/15/10 |
Energy system
on Discover blog |
| 9/15/10 |
Energy losses in a car |
| 9/15/10 |
Energy losses |
| 9/15/10 |
Example of Sankey
diagram |
| 9/15/10 |
Energy sources
in US |
| 9/15/10 |
Energy use in US (diagram) |
| 9/10/10 |
Link to Popular
Mechanics myth buster |
| 1/4/10 |
Importance
of transistors |
| 1/410 |
Simple explanation of transistor |
| 9/28/08 |
LINAC visual
; Stanford
LINAC - how it works; RPI's
LINAC; decent
explanation; |
| 11/30/09 |
More Lego ideas! |
| 11/09 |
Instructions to build Lego
car |
| 11/09 |
Summary of ways to reduce fossil fuel use
(used to be a poster
on wall in class) |
| 10/09 |
Light and pigment colors |
| W 10/7 |
Carnot
graph (scroll down) |
| F 9/25 |
Don't idle
your car more than a minute |
| M 9/21 |
Internal combustion engine |
| M 9/21 |
Sankey diagrams: idea
1, idea
2, idea
3 |
| M 9/21 |
Energy diagram
- hard to read, but interesting concept |
| M 9/21 |
Diagram of steam
power plant |
| M 9/21 |
Hydroelectric
diagram |
| W 9/16 |
This site explains a steam
turbine very well |
| W 9/16 |
Not a bad simplified diagram
of steam turbine |
| W 9/16 |
How steam
turbines work |
| W 9/16 |
Great graph for energy consumption by type
and sector from Dept
of Energy. |
| 1/08 |
How transistors
work - GREAT site! |
| 10/08 |
Fluorescent
Green Proteins |
| 10/08 |
Powers
of 10 applet |
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Econ and Gov't links from previous
years
| 3/16 |
Random
Economic Lives or as PDF |
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| 1/12 |
Some links to tax and income percentages:
Data direct from Congressional
Budget Office The third graph is on income source.
Kiplinger
(enter your family income or your predicted post-college income
to find where you rank)
From
BankRate (claiming IRS as primary source)
Top
0.1% from the Weekly Standard
Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities
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| 10/11 |
Electoral versus popular vote
for presidential elections (ranked) |
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| 10/11 |
Property Rights Index (Russia) |
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| 11/10 |
Explanation of
oil subsidies |
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| 11/09 |
Judges
appointed or elected? -note pages 5 - 7 ; county
courts |
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| 11/09 |
Great resources for your elected
officials: all towns and Rensselaer
County; county level only for Columbia
county; most of greene
county and town offices, more for Columbia,
and towns
in that county. |
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| 11/09 |
http://www.unsealedinitiative.org/assets/images/billtolaw.gif
bill becomes a law |
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| 12/15/09 |
Who owns national debt -
version 1, version
2, version
3 |
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| 2/4/09 |
I don't recommend biased talk
show hosts as good data sources, but this is a good visual that
summarizes the data for the %
of taxes paid by various income earners. Here the data
is nicely confirmed by the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis
(scroll to bottom for chart) . |
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| 2/4/09 |
Tax
freedom day (April 30th nationally. When is NY
State's?) |
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| 11/23/09 |
Zak says you must use this:
http://hes.lbl.gov/ |
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| 11/5/09 |
Great resources for your elected
officials: all towns and Rensselaer
County; county level only for Columbia
county; most of greene
county and town offices, more for Columbia,
and towns
in that county. Note: Be sure to understand HOW districting
works. Can you vote for ALL your town council members or is
your town/city divided into districts? Different localities
do it different ways. You are not represented by ALL the members
of the House of Representatives from NY, just the one from your
district. |
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| 11/5/09 |
Sites about judges: in
general; Judges
appointed or elected? -note pages 5 - 7 ; county
courts; NY process
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| 11/09 |
Vote
Smart; Officials by address;
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| 11/09 |
Columbia
County election resutls |
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| 11/09 |
Rensselaer
County election results 2009 |
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| 11/09 |
US aid to Israel,
one estimate |
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| 11/09 |
Foreign
Aid by country, |
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| 11/09 |
Suez
war |
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| 11/09 |
Egypt-Israeli timeline |
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| 9/09 |
Scientific investigation of supposed
9/11 conspiracies |
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| 2/08 |
Interesting map
showing the economies of individual states compared to the
economies of nations. |
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| 2/08 |
2007 Federal
Budget, accurate
pie chart (I checked it myself compared to OMB), Washington
Post simplified pie chart, a conservative
perspective, a liberal
perspective, national debt
clock |
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| 1/08 |
How caucuses
work - great graphic!; Follow the primaries;
How to get
on the ballot as a third party candidate; Money and elections-OpenSecrets.org
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| 11/08 |
Here is the common
list of everyday indicators of wealth that I spoke about
at the end of class with a few of you. I have no idea if it's
accurate, but you could verify some of the facts with just a
few minutes of digging.
Here is some similar
information about what the world would look like at a village
scale . They are clear about their source and about their
agenda.
Here is a fun calculator to see how
your income stacks up to the rest of the world. There are
some mathematical issues and clearly they have an agenda but
it's interesting. Type in maybe $1000 per year and see the results!
Here are some poverty
statistics. I will leave it to you to look at the footnotes
and assess the validity of the sources. |
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