Internet and Communication
Is the online world as important to Internet users as the real world? Large numbers of Internet users hold such strong views about their online communities that they compare the value of their online world to their real-world communities, according to the sixth annual survey of the impact of the Internet conducted by the USC-Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future.
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Science Lessons Forum for Batang Paete
This forum contains articles that can be incorporated into teaching Math and Science in the classrooms. The articles come with links to educational websites that will answer several exploratory questions related to the topic. Each topic also ends with relevant games.
From the folks who brought you ketchup as a vegetable comes another Orwellian twist from Washington.
From BBC News UK: Charles Darwin's works go online - The complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.
The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable.
Surfers with MP3 players can even access downloadable audio files.
Online audio webcast of 'Science Friday' for the 6th October 2006 (Update: The show has now been archived - links are provided):
Hour One: Winners of the 2006 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were announced this week. Join Joe Palca in this hour of Science Friday for a chat with some of this year's winners about their science and what it's like to win the prize.
Hour Two: Join Joe Palca in this hour of Science Friday for a talk with evolutionary biologist - and famous atheist - Richard Dawkins.
"The Intelligent Design The Future podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design."
No matter which side of the 'Cultural Wars' you are on - or even if you're just an innocent bystander with a passing interest - the embedded podcast player at the "read more" link will almost certainly contain something of interest.
Featuring double-click access to audio interviews with Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe (etc., etc.), the scrollable archive list is updated every week so make sure you bookmark the page!
The Malmö, Sweden, based company Polar Rose sayss it will soon introduce a Web-based search engine that can find photographs of people by analyzing pictures and identifying faces. The search engine -- which will be the first of its kind in the world -- is the result of research carried out by Jan Erik Solem at Technology and Society, Malmö University College.
Education can play a fundamental role in reducing poverty, but high-quality and up-to-date textbooks are often too expensive for most people in developing countries. To make education more accessible, a professor in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is spearheading an effort to produce free online textbooks using a modified version of the Wiki software that powers the Web site Wikipedia.
Embargoed journal articles periodically come under fire for corrupting the free flow of information. But the system is really no different than other "news" the public receives.
A proposed US system to protect satellites from solar storms or high-altitude nuclear detonations could cause side-effects that lead to radio communication blackouts, according to new research. If activated, the "radiation belt remediation" (RBR) system could significantly alter the upper atmosphere, seriously disrupting high frequency (HF) radio wave transmissions and GPS navigation around the world.
Early Sunday morning, July 23, an abandoned campfire in Cleveland National Forest erupted into a 7,000-acre wildfire that continues to spread. Now known as the Horse Fire, it threatens more than 1,500 homes and 100 commercial properties near San Diego, Calif. Within 24 hours, communications expert Hans-Werner Braun and his collaborators from the NSF-supported High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) were on the scene.
