Dylan Prendergast Science Department - Physics and Science Research   Email: dprendergast@scarsdaleschools.org Office: 291A Phone: 721-2671

 

Cool videos and clips: 

Musical tesla coils 

 

Great science-related fiction:

Diamond Age, Anathem, Seveneves, and Snow Crash, all by Neal Stephenson

Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, all by Orson Scott Card

2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey 2, both by Arthur C. Clarke 

Dune, by Frank Herbert 

The Martian and Artemis, by Andy Weir 

Lock In, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Lost Colony, all by John Scalzi

Neuromancer and Count Zero, by William Gibson 

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov 

 

Great science-related non-fiction: 

Taking the Quantum Leap, by Alan Wolf

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard Feynman

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, by Werner Heisenberg 

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond 

Blitzed: Drugs in the Thir Reich, by Norman Ohler

 

Fitness Related:

"Bring Sally Up Challenge" - Squats or pushups to "Flowers" by Moby. (Go up and down with the lyrics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2V9Bu80J4)

Erging on slides - http://youtube.com/watch?v=3DVuJd5vu_M