Seriously considering using this Calvin & Hobbes cartoon for a kindergarten session on the Scientific Method
Apart from the obvious, I wonder what kind of awesome, far out, crazy, but ultimately testable, hypotheses can one come up with?
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Tag: thermodynamics
March 3, 2013
This piece is called “Even the air and the water obey (the Laws of Thermodynamics). Part 1” #hotartcard
Thinking of entering my own art at the upcoming #hotartcard event. Although to be honest, I’m more of a “I only draw/paint because my walls look a bit empty, and I’m actually a scientist, so feel a little funny calling myself an artist” kind of artist.
Even the air and the water obey (the Laws of Thermodynamics). Part 1
(pastels and charcoal)
January 26, 2013
Science Comics: The Batman Versions
Sources: unknown (although presumably a Bat Cave somewhere…)
November 19, 2012
Here’s another song I wrote: This one is about climate change, the first law of thermodynamics, and the awesomeness of science.
I don’t know what it is about marking papers, but my brand of procrastination seems to lead to silly creative science pursuits.
And so, here is a song I quickly wrote and laid down some tracks last night. It’s kind of amazing what you can do with the average computer and a decent microphone these days. Hope you enjoy!
Lyrics:
10/3/5/Em
Listen, things are getting warmer
You can call it climate, climate that is changing
Simple in that science, science is the reason
We should take a stand, come up with a plan, listen to
It’s like this, living in a greenhouse
throwing in the air now, burning in the air now
warmer radiation, holding at the station
models add it up, heat is going up.
G A Dm G
CHORUS
Don’t you know It’s science, showing us the numbers
showing us a truth, something we can trust,
Something that we must take hold and move on forward
10/5/7/3
BRIDGE
It’s like this, following the first law
Which is all to say that, that everything is bookkept
Counted and accounted. Following the heat
Following the work, following the state of things
Heat up, means it getting warmer
And with work a storming, moving air and water
Also changing states, melting ice to liquid
Averaging it out, causing thing to shout
CHORUS
Don’t you know…
BRIDGE
Science: it’s not opinion, it’s not like fiction, and not religion. It’s rational, and looks at facts, mistakes are tracked, it looks at evidence.
May 17, 2012
A mundane tragedy is actually a great lesson in thermodynamics (or I’m such a geek)
First, show your audience this awesome strip:
Next, discuss the first law of thermodynamics, systems, dQ and all of that. Then, wait for the merriment to ensue.
April 3, 2012
Here is a song I wrote about thermodynamics. Be nice…
By DAVID NG
Lyrics as follows:
THERMODYNAMICS OF LOVE (demo mp3)
First you have one
It says a ton
Basically saying that something can’t come from nothing
Gives you the sum, of things to and from, making it all – total up – all working out
CHORUS
I should have you all figured
With a law like this in mind
Listen to my reasoning
You should know by now
The thermodynamics of love.
Then you have two
Messing with you
Telling you life is a journey full of disorder
Giving off heat, ordinary feat, and telling you work a bit harder – figure it out.
CHORUS
ITS very simple
very rational
really excerptional
just universal
absolute zero
not moving on
stuck in a standstill
we’re not responsible.
FADE TO END
August 12, 2011
Fox commentators apparently exempt from the 1st Law of Thermodynamics.
Here’s a choice quote from a “weather expert” on Fox TV.
“[Saying that CO2 could affect the climate] contradicts what we call the first law of thermodynamics: energy can never be created nor destroyed,” Bastardi said. “So, to look for an input of energy into the atmosphere you have to come from a foreign source.”
This is so wrong it is both funny and frightening, and Davide Castelvecchi over Scientific America does a great job outlining why.
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