Msgr. Georges Lemaitre

A beautiful biographic sketch of a scientist priest!

h/t to Kevin

Cool Series on Catholic Scientists

Dr. Thursday is doing an amazing series of short biographies of Catholic scientists. Check out the index to the series here:

GKC's Favourite: Catholic Scientists

Balloon in a Bottle Experiment

I didn't realize that Mr. Wizard had passed away until I stumbled upon this YouTube.

The kids and I just borrowed some Mr. Wizard videos from the library a few weeks ago. I'll have to do a little searching and see if I can find some of him on YouTube. In the meantime, enjoy this little tribute and balloon experiment:



Check out other Steve Spangler videos on YouTube.

Happy Birthday Albert

Today is Albert Einstein's birthday as well as World Pi Day.

You can celebrate by eating a piece of pie at 1:59 PM (3.14159...). And check out some Einstein and Pi websites such as :

Albert Einstein Archives

Math Educators of Greater St. Louis (my hometown)

Pi Day

Basic information and trivia about Pi visit

An extensive web warehouse of info about Pi

Hat tip: Click Schooling