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World Wide Learn

November 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

WorldWideLearn – The World’s Largest Online Directory of Education. ‘Founded in 1998, World Wide Learn is the world’s largest directory of educational services, featuring informative resources as well as hundreds of e-learning courses in 360 subject categories. World Wide Learn enables its users to quickly and easily locate effective e-learning courseware. The directory highlights free [...]

Nov

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Richard E. Smalley

November 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Richard E. Smalley, 1943–2005. ‘The world lost a major intellect with the death on Oct. 28 of Richard E. Smalley from leukemia (see page 7). Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the fullerenes, but by then he had become more focused on the potential of cousins of the fullerenes-carbon [...]

Nov

29

More on Intelligent Design

November 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

What Was God Thinking? Science Can’t Tell. ‘2001 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Eric Cornell, gave a speech at his induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.’

Nov

28

EDUCAUSE: Evolving Technologies Reports

November 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Evolving Technologies Reports. ‘The Evolving Technologies Committee is charged with the identification of developing technologies and the evaluation of their impact on higher education for the EDUCAUSE community. Annually such technologies are identified, researched, and white papers are produced by members of the committee. The information gathered is presented at the EDUCAUSE annual conference committee [...]

Nov

27

Old News

November 27, 2005 | 1 Comment

Revealed: the chemistry of love. ‘ The good news: they’ve discovered the love chemical inside us all. The bad news: it only lasts a year.’ [via Findory]

Nov

27

What We Don’t Know

November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment

125 Questions: What Don’t We Know? ‘A special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005, Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal’s 125th anniversary with a look forward — at the most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today.’

Nov

27

Some Ideas for Christmas Gifts…

November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment

TIME: Best Inventions 2005. ‘Our nominees for the coolest new concepts of 2005 in food, medicine, transportation and more.’

Nov

27

The Real Coldplay

November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Scientists discover singing iceberg in Antarctica. ‘Scientists monitoring earth movements in Antarctica believe they have found a singing iceberg. Sound waves from the iceberg had a frequency of around 0.5 hertz, too low to be heard by humans, but by playing them at higher speed the iceberg sounded like a swarm of bees or an [...]

Nov

27

Personalized Medicine

November 27, 2005 | 1 Comment

A Special Drug Just for You, at the End of a Long Pipeline. ‘A new drug for acne, Aczone, was approved in July, but with a catch. The Food and Drug Administration said it would require that patients first be tested for an enzyme deficiency that could put them at risk of developing anemia from [...]

Nov

26

ECHO

November 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) – Open Access Infrastructure for a Future Web of Culture and Science.

Nov

26

Tunnel Made of Water

November 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Electrons ‘Tunnel’ Through Water Molecules Between Nestled Proteins. ‘Duke University theoretical chemists who spend much of their time calculating how the exotic rules of quantum mechanics govern electrons motion between and through biological molecules have garnered surprising results when they add water to their models.’

Nov

26

Leak Detection, Carbon Nanotubes, New Space Materials and High-Tech Nature

November 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Scientists Explore the Frontiers of NASA Science. ‘The science is tiny as carbon nanotubes and the silica shells that cover single-cell algae. And it’s as practical as finding a leak in a spacecraft and understanding a new material for the next space telescope.’