Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Daybreak climate boardgame
Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet.
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Energy Source Graphs
These graphs illustrate trends in human energy use. I am just getting going on creating a series of graphs. The first will compare major sources of generated electricity in the USA: natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar and hydro. I also intend to add a graph showing total energy use in the USA (not just…
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Atmosphere Layers
Earth’s atmosphere is composed of a series of layers with different properties. Some of the planets and moons in our Solar System also have atmospheres with layered structures comparable to Earth’s. This self-paced, online lesson provides an overview of layers of the atmosphere – on Earth and beyond!
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iPad Size Test – Phaser 3
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Memory Game
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Time Hopper
These are experiments with platformer games from various tutorials. I plan to make a platformer game that draws attention to important events that have happened throughout the “deep time” history of the Universe. This version of a JavaScript-based game uses the Phaser 3 library. Three versions of platformer games from tutorials are presented:
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Unity Test
This page is a proof-of-concept test of publishing games made with Unity onto a web page on my WordPress site. This first test displays an early version of Planetary Pong in an iFrame.
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Portfolio: Drone Science Mission Board Game
The Drone Science Mission Board Game simulates a scientific mission to monitor a volcano, using sensors carried by a drone aircraft. Randy Russell developed the game, while working for the UCAR Center for Science Education (UCAR SciEd), as part of a larger engineering education project. The Engineering Experiences project, geared towards middle school students, was…
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Portfolio: Eratosthenes Measured Earth (Animation)
The Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC) was the first person to accurately measure the circumference of Earth. This animation illustrates his method. Randy Russell developed this animation (using the now-defunct Flash animation software) for a citizen science project as part of his work on the Windows to the Universe web…
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Mars Helicopter Lesson Plan
NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, featuring the Perseverance rover, landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover carried a small helicopter named Ingenuity. On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly under its own power on a planet other than Earth. This page presents two options for a lesson about Ingenuity’s historic…
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