Cassiopeia Project

I met Todd Hall and his lovely wife, Cynthia, while drinking Pimm’s cups at the Napoleon House in New Orleans.  We started talking because we had both gone there to attend the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference and we’re both into educational technology.

Todd runs the website, the Cassiopeia Project, which is a repository of science videos.  Here’s an example:

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big proponent of science education. It’s always a pleasure to find a website with well-done good science videos–especially on my pet topic of evolution.  Thanks Todd! Keep up the good work!

Diseasome

Yet another example of how we can use visualization techniques to better understand relationships between complex data.

Diseasome maps genetic disorders to genes affected.  You can zoom in or out and see the gene-disease links.

the interface is easy to use

Video Glossary

Here’s an interesting service from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratories: Video Glossary!

Videos of scientists explaining scientific terms have been compiled into an online video glossary, and a new one is added each week. Each video explains one term and they’re only about a minute long.

Cool protein folding game

Protein folding is such a complex, amazing, and beautiful phenomena. I have often wondered why someone didn’t come up with a program where you can visually play with the globs and get a sense of how the pieces attract and fold. Well, someone has! Last year!

Foldit is a game using distributed computing a la SETI@home, and crowdsourcing. Too cool!

Allosphere

I just read about the Allosphere project at UCSB. Pretty cool! Imagine taking a field trip here!