Internet and Communication
Wireless data, transmitted across your skin -- the Human Area Network is one step closer to reality.
Peer review has become the gold standard of the scientific community. Bring up a scientific finding, and the first thing you may be asked is, "Ah, well, is this peer reviewed?"
Is peer review all that it's cracked up to be?
I tagged this with every category since I review books in all realms of science.
Though I plan to maintain my Science Shelf archive of book reviews, I will now also publish the reviews on Science Blog.
In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities.
Both sociologists and market researchers have been using Facebook for a few years now in order study human activity. I recently came across a new use.
For those of you have have been wondering about whether ScienceDebate2008, the latest news is that it has morphed into a different but still viable form.
It won't take place in PA, but it may take place on PBS.
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Internet addiction is gaining more and more credibility as a mental problem, granting more credibility to your social awkwardness. By the way, this article may or may not be updated with new content every 15 minutes. Better keep refreshing just to make sure.
The lives of today’s college students have always included computers and the Internet. That technology now has moved from the ether into instruction. A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a “hybrid class” that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter-grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format.
I got this from the folks at ScienceDebate2008 and I'm passing it along.
If Nature can't give up a enough new mutants to satisfy the demands of the ADHD Internet age, will zoologists take matters into their own hands?
In a provocative article in this week’s Science Magazine, the University of Maryland’s Ben Shneiderman, one of the world’s leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it’s time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary new method of scientific discovery.
Now that the primaries have narrowed the number of viable major-party presidential candidates to three, ScienceDebate2008 promises to give each of them an opportunity to address an issue that is not strictly partisan: science and technology policy and what it means for the future of our nation and the world.
Philadelphia's Franklin Institute has announced its prestigious awards, the Benjamin Franklin Medals and the Bower Awards for significant achievements in science and business leadership.
The Franklin Medal has been awarded for 184 years, far longer than the Nobel Prize, and its recipients have included many of the greatest names in international science and technology.
Sometimes collaboration makes good science but lousy names.
NASA has added to its Web site an interactive program that allows users to discover some of the many NASA technologies that positively impact everyday life. NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale unveiled NASA at Home and NASA City Tuesday in Denver at the 3rd Space Exploration Conference.
