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Educational use of blogs

March 31, 2005 | 1 Comment

Blog Banning: From the Rutland (VT) Herald comes a story about a jr/sr high school principal who has banned access to Myspace.com, a blogging site. The reason? Well aside from legitimate concerns about kids publishing personal information, the prinicpal says blogging is not an educational use of computers.

Mar

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Institutional diversity

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The Necessity of Mobility. ‘A chairman explains why departments often shy away from hiring too many Ph.D.’s from local universities.’

Mar

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You will have to choose…

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Researcher says Viagra may cause vision loss.

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Molecular dissection

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Scientists Make Atom Breakthrough. ‘Scientists at Birmingham University have made a major breakthrough in manipulating tiny molecules in order to induce the ‘birth’ of an atom. The Nanoscale Science Facility has devised a new technique of molecular dissection which results in a daughter atom being ‘born’ from the parent molecule.’

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It’s a Record!

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History of the universe in 60 seconds. ‘A video of Eric Schulman’s brilliant 60-second-long History of the Universe is now up on the National Science Foundation’s web site. It shows Dr. Schulman performing what was originally a 200-word written piece that appeared in the Jan/Feb 1997 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.’