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Some good ideas in this blog post – Technology In Biology Class.  Alas!  You will have to look at home.  Entirely too racy for our fiendish filter.

Amusement Park Physics – Design a Roller Coaster

This article includes some related physics resources.

Thanks to Eric Bateman for pointing to this video in the Canandaigua Academy Library Blog.

The Future of Food, a 2004 documentary that offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade, is available to watch, for free, through Hulu.

Jonathan Drori (2009) from TEDTalks (video)
In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity — one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.

Free Technology recently posted Remarkable Images of Protest.  The post might lead to some useful resources for environmental, social studies classes & art classes.  There is at least one link of interest to math teachers – Fibonacci Sequence Illustrated by Nature

The site is blocked by BESS – but you can check it in the library or at home.  Some of the content is definitely PG-13. 10 Most Suggestive Cacti On Earth for example =)  Still – there are many interesting articles/phot essays such as:

• 5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
• 8 Incredible Green Roofs
• Remarkable Images of Activism from the Last Fifty Years
• Fibonacci Sequence Illustrated by Nature
• The Birth of Stars