aclJohn's Science Finds

WikiPremed is a free online course designed to help learners prepare for standardized medical school entrance examinations; it will also help many other learners with undergraduate level general sciences.

The course itself is free although according to WikiPremed some elements of the course are best accomplished by purchasing some printed materials (Dead Trees!).

WikiPremed offers, among other things, a large gallery of drawings and images for teaching and learning concepts in...

• chem...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods (MRI Scans of Food)

The Inside Insides blog features animated MRI scans of food which I'm sure has a number of uses in teaching & learning.

Visit http://insideinsides.blogspot.com/ to see what I mean.

I think I must be getting behind the times because I'd not heard of John Conway's Game of Life!

However I came across sixfoottallrabbit's implementation of John Conway's Game of Life using the HTML 5 canvas element.

The Game of Life is a cellular automation!

"What does that mean?"

It means that it consists of a grid of cells which can be in one of a finite number of states. Given any state, there are rules that govern what the next state of the grid will be.

We are looking at l...

Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of...

• health,
• technology, and
• work.

With Open Heart, learners can perform, among other things, heart surgery, and learn a lot about how the heart works in the process.

Open Heart has lots of interactive components to help teach about the structure and function of the heart. Learners can...

• put together the pieces of the heart,
  
• make it pump by correctly identifying the blood-flow pathway,
  
• diagnose patients, and
  
• performing bypass surgery (virtually, that is).
  

In each section there is clear readable, easy-to-understan...

The costs of textbooks and scholarly journals continue to rise, so it is nice to find websites like Sciyo; Sciyo is valuable to cash-strapped science learners.

Sciyo is a free service that allows scientists to publish their works and connect with other authors.

• Works published on Sciyo are made available for free to visitors.
  
• Visitors can download works as PDFs.
  
• There are currently 211 free books on Sciyo.
  

Note: In the future videos will also be available on Sciyo.

OE-CAKE acts as a physics-based paint program.

Users can insert objects and see them interact under the laws of physics.

OE-CAKE has an advanced fluid simulator with support for things such as...

• gases;
• rigid objects; and
  
• elastic materials.
  

As usual, before I include anything in a blog/podcast/eMagazine etc., I've had a play and found it both intuitive (in part perhaps, because I taught Physics in the past) and impressive.

It is an ideal tool for use on an interactive white bo...

Ever wondered how a baby sees the world? Many believe that babies

TinyEyes is an online image manipulation tool that simulates what a baby sees during the different stages of their development.

To use TinyEyes...

• Click the “Try it!” link; found at the top of the homepage;
• Select the age of the child, who’s vision that you want to see, from the drop-down menu;
• Enter the distance in inches from the child;
• Uplo...

Another interactive resource and tutorial for Biologists; this time it concentrates on the eye and all its parts.

Visit http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html to try it out.