011210WarmUp

Did you know that the United States is 32% of all land in the US is owned by the federal government.

Statistics such as these are called demographics. Look it up @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics

and

http://www.answers.com/topic/demographics

Check out these websites:

http://www.bls.gov/bls/demographics.htm

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

http://zipskinny.com/

http://demo.idvsolutions.com/apps/censusdemo/flash/map.html

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/

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011110WarmUp

Today's date looks downright binary!

Did you know that on November 6th that an asteroid came within 8700 miles of the earth, the astronmical equivalent of a bullet grazing your skin.

What would would we earthlings do? Shoot a missle? Fire a rocket? Hire Bruce Willis to blow it up like in the movie "Armageddon" ?

Here are some strategies:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/defending_earth_010601-1.html

http://www.legendarypharma.com/jdf/impact.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009SoSyR..43..483I

http://library.isunet.edu/Thesaurus.htm?numrec=051914368919610

http://www.shvoong.com/exact-sciences/1698780-code-yellow-mits-radical-asteroid/

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/Asteroid/

What would you do?

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1008WarmUp

Yesterday, you looked at scores of weird animals.

Today, you can design you own @ http://brands.kraftfoods.com/lunchables/lunch-roar-score/animal-mix-up.aspx

and

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

and

http://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm

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0107WarmUp

Ever see a person walking an ugly dog?

Take a look at some really weird animals @

http://www.life.com/image/3445355/in-gallery/26582

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5966251/The-weirdest-animals-on-Planet-Earth.html

http://environment.uk.msn.com/wildlife/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=9264728

http://guides.travel.msn.com/Guides/MSNTravelSlideShow.aspx?cp-documentid=1085789&imageindex=1

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070516-new-animals.html

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/show_creatures.do

http://webecoist.com/2009/02/03/the-9-strangest-animals-on-earth/

http://webecoist.com/2010/01/05/living-large-nine-outstanding-expanding-animals/

http://webecoist.com/2009/10/23/natures-halloween-screams-20-scary-animals/

http://webecoist.com/2009/10/05/weird-wonders-15-of-the-world%E2%80%99s-strangest-animals/

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0106WarmUp

Guess which job was voted one of the ten best for 2010?

Software Engineer--that's right!

Check it out @ http://www.careercast.com/jobs/content/top-200-jobs-2010-jobs-rated

Look at a slide show @ http://www.careercast.com/jobs/content/slideshow-10-best-jobs-2010

What's a software engineer do?

Take a look @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer

and

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm

and

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-software-engineer.htm

and

http://www.careeroverview.com/computer-software-engineering-careers.html

and

http://cplus.about.com/od/thebusinessofsoftware/a/softwareeng.htm

How much do they make?

http://www.collegegrad.com/careers/proft44.shtml

What kind of courses do you need to take to be a software engineer?

http://www.learningtree.com/training-directory/Software-Engineering-Training-14.htm

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0105WarmUp

Did you know that the world's tallest tower was unveiled Monday night to a crowd of thousands and the world.

Where is it, what is it called?

Check it out @ http://www.ndtv.com/news/photos/album-details.php?id=6562&Album=PHOTO_GALLERY&AlbumTitle=Burj+Dubai,+the+world's+tallest+building

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2010/jan/04/burj-dubai-design

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34694082#34694082

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638250191270042.html?mod=article-outset-box

These websites about the tallest buildings in the world are interesting as well:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1950812,00.html?xid=rss-photoessays&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fphotoessays+(TIME%3A+Top+Photoessays)&utm_content=Google+Reader

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34689581/ns/travel-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/we-built-this-city-new-york-skyscrapers.html

http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?aid=17486

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0104WarmUp

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Wow, the first GrokIt! of the new year.

Let's take a look at interactive infographics.

What's an interactive infographic?

According to Larry Ferlazzo, ed consultant and tech guru, "Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized."

Here are some interesting site for interactive infographics:

http://www.boston.com/interactive/graphics/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123125727470257535.html?mod=article-outset-box

http://www.time.com/time/graphics

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/galleries/graphics.html

http://www.kansascity.com/news/interactive_graphics/

http://blogs.usatoday.com/interactivity/

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