Star Stories and the Nobel Prize
September 25, 2008 8:27 AM Subscribe
Star Stories explains the life and death of stars using a multimedia
approach that incorporates images, animation, video and text. From the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Don't miss out on the other cool games .
One of the games has been posted before, but Star Stories is hot off of the presses.
One of the games has been posted before, but Star Stories is hot off of the presses.
H'mm...the only real multimedia or animated angle is the menu system -- the content itself is pretty text heavy and static.
There is a short animation of the Sun, but it features clumsy use of Trapcode's Particular using an all-too-familiar preset.
A big round of "meh" from me...disappointed, because I was hoping this would be good item to work into a lesson plan for my homeschooled daughter (5.5 yrs). She's very interested in cosmology, but I think if I were simply to read the text to her I might as well use one of the books I already have on the shelf that at least feature lots of photographs.
The menu's pseudo-parallax in response to to cursor movement was kind of neat, though.
posted by CheeseburgerBrown at 8:54 AM on September 25, 2008
There is a short animation of the Sun, but it features clumsy use of Trapcode's Particular using an all-too-familiar preset.
A big round of "meh" from me...disappointed, because I was hoping this would be good item to work into a lesson plan for my homeschooled daughter (5.5 yrs). She's very interested in cosmology, but I think if I were simply to read the text to her I might as well use one of the books I already have on the shelf that at least feature lots of photographs.
The menu's pseudo-parallax in response to to cursor movement was kind of neat, though.
posted by CheeseburgerBrown at 8:54 AM on September 25, 2008
Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find the entry on Chris Farley anywhere.
posted by tommasz at 9:15 AM on September 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by tommasz at 9:15 AM on September 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
Totally glossed over Proxima Centauri's oxycodone addiction and how it supported Enoch Powell in the 70's.
posted by Mayor Curley at 9:55 AM on September 25, 2008
posted by Mayor Curley at 9:55 AM on September 25, 2008
I read a story in the Star about how a certain VP candidate has had chestic enhancement surgery.
LOLBIDEN amirite?
posted by Mister_A at 10:51 AM on September 25, 2008
LOLBIDEN amirite?
posted by Mister_A at 10:51 AM on September 25, 2008
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