Link to Summer programs, internships, and other opportunities for exploring STEM fields while in high school. |
First Fractal Fridays at NM Museum of Natural History and ScienceEvery first Friday of the month brings an incredible show to the planetarium at the museum. Imagine the video to the right being shown hundreds of times bigger on a semi-spherical dome above you! It is an incredible experience. Click below for more information.
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Amazing Spinning SculpturesCheck out these sculptures based on mathematical principles, such as Fibonacci sequences! Math truly makes for inspiring and mesmerizing art!
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Renaissance Woman!
Mae Jemison is an amazing scientist and the first African-American female in space. Check out her biography and this interview!
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Cutting Any Polygon Shape with One CutAnd you thought cutting the scalene triangle with one straight cut was difficult? Try some of this stuff! I will be amazed if you can master some of this!
(Just the acute triangle was difficult for me.) |
Vortex is Life!
Wow! Over thirty-five years of studying astronomy and mathematics and I never had this vision before. This is a cool video about how the solar system perhaps should be viewed differently.
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Infinity Is Perplexing and AwesomeThis video helps to explain "countable infinity."
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Why do we use x as the variable?Not the most exciting presentation, but very informative about why x became the principal letter we use for the variable in equations and expressions.
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Sizes of InfinityThis video is difficult to grasp, even for a mathematician.
Both this video and the next are part of a fascinating and fun collection from sciencedump.com. |
Women, Science, and ActingGreat clip featuring TV actress (Big Bang Theory) and Ph.D. neuroscientist Mayim Bialik
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Hexaflexagons!A link for the whole series of hexaflexagon YouTube videos from Vi Hart. This also gets you to her other awesome math videos, such as the ones about snakes and doodling.
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Despite searching many times on the Internet, I cannot find the original artist for this cartoon in order to show him/her my suggested improvement. :-(