Nov

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Universities Worldwide

November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Braintrack – The World’s most complete Education-Index. ‘Over 8’300 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 194 Countries.’ Universities Worldwide. ‘Links to 7304 Universities in 182 countries (November 2nd, 2005).’ Best Indices of Colleges and Universities World-Wide. Thoughts Aside: All credible institutions have played a significant role in promotion and propagation of online education. Specially Kaplan [...]

Nov

4

Not Only in Chemistry

November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Difficult subjects. ‘Anyone who’s been following higher education news will know there’s a problem with demand in the hard sciences. Chemistry departments in England have closed, reportedly because of a drop in students wanting to study the subject. What has not been as widely covered is a downturn in language studies that is threatening UK [...]

Nov

3

Scale of Things

November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Cefic: Scale of things. ‘Nowadays we hear more and more often of micrometres, nanometres or even picometres. These measurements certainly represent the world of the small, but how small exactly? And just how big is a megametre, a gigametre or a terametre? Did you know for instance that a micrometre is a millionth of a [...]

Nov

3

Liquidmetal

November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Liquidmetal: Redefining metals for the 21st century. ‘A revolution in metals has arrived. NASA, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the U.S. Department of Energy united to help develop a new building material. “Liquidmetal” is a type of alloy, a mix of three or more metals, with characteristics similar to plastic that cools quickly [...]

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