What’s the difference between the Baltimore World Trade Center and New York’s One World Tower? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying — One is a prism and the other is an ANTIprism! 3D prisms have two parallel shapes connected with rectangles. Think — cereal
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Antiprism-tastic!
What’s the difference between the Baltimore World Trade Center and New York’s One World Tower? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying — One is a prism and the other is an ANTIprism! 3D prisms have two parallel shapes connected with rectangles. Think — cereal
Continue readingLauren wins the Stanley Behrens Fellowship and ARCS Award!
Hive managing editor Lauren Urban has recently been awarded the Stanley Behrens Fellowship and Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award! Lauren says, “I am honored to receive these awards. The financial and academic support provided by these awards helped me continue my research work and pursue
Continue readingHeidi wins the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award
Hive managing editor Heidi Waite has recently awarded a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award! Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award gives graduate students hands-on training and science policy experience. As part of the program, graduate students get training on communicating with congressional decision makers and then get to apply that
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Antiprism-tastic!
What’s the difference between the Baltimore World Trade Center and New York’s One World Tower? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying — One is a prism and the other is an ANTIprism! 3D prisms have two parallel shapes connected with rectangles. Think — cereal
Continue readingHow to Make Antiprism Cookies!
Today we will be making this shape out of cookies! Materials Needed: Tube of cookie icing, 8 triangular-shaped cookies, 2 square cookies. The length of the square cookie must be equal to the length of the triangle cookie. Use 1 square cookie as the base. Add a thick layer of
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Make Your Own Antiprism
Illustrator and craft blogger Rachel Basinger teaches you how to make your own 3-D Antiprism sculptures. Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Materials: four straws, scissors, and some bakers twine (available online here). Step 1: Cut your straws into thirds. Take three pieces of your straw and thread them on
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