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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

31

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

31

You will have to choose…

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Researcher says Viagra may cause vision loss.

Mar

31

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.’ [via Topix.net]

Mar

31

It’s a record!

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History of the universe in 60 seconds.

Mar

30

All about 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

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NOVA: Wave That Shook the World.

Mar

30

Puzzling…

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Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli principle. ‘Scientists seeking to explain high-temperature superconductivity have been violating the Pauli exclusion principle, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University report. Any theory that does not embrace the Pauli principle has a lot of explaining to do, they say.’

Mar

30

Air causes splash

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Revealing a secret in plain sight: air makes liquids go splash. ‘University of Chicago physicists have learned how to eliminate what scientists formerly regarded as the inevitable splashing that occurs after a liquid crashes onto a flat surface. It turns out that the removal of air eliminates the splash process.’

Mar

30

Interesting discussions

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Is Computer Science Science? and More on Is Computer Science Science?

Mar

29

“Hottest” Researchers

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And the Hottest Scientists Are… ‘Thomson ISI does some dandy datamining, and it has just released its list of the hottest scientists over the last two years.’

Mar

29

Playing with Pentacene and Rubrene

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Increasing charge mobility in single molecular organic crystals. ‘Flexible displays that can be folded up in your pocket? More accurate biological and chemical sensors? Biocompatible electronics? Studies may help identify best materials for variety of future electronics applications.’

Mar

29

Euroscience Open Forum

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Euroscience Open Forum 2006 - Highlighting new research, new technology, new thinking! ESOF2006 is the second pan-European General Science Meeting to be held in Munich from July 15th-19th, 2006.

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