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BBC News - The science of optical illusions - 0 views

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    Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings
Gail Casey

Creative Commons - 0 views

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    Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Res
Tero Toivanen

Why boys will pick Bob over Barbie - children are genetically programmed, say scientist... - 0 views

  • Tests involving children as young as three months suggest biological differences and not social pressures dictate which toys children like to play with. The U.S. study looked at babies aged three to eight months - before they can identify even the gender of other people.
  • Researchers placed a doll and truck inside a puppet-theatre style box and showed them to 30 children - 17 boys and 13 girls - for two ten-second intervals.The findings, from researchers at Texas A&M University, overturn conventional wisdom that children's toy preferences are down to social conditioning.
  • For the study, led by Gerianne Alexander, researchers set up a presentation box similar to a puppet theatre and placed a doll and truck inside.
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  • Eye-tracking technology measured how many times and how long the babies focused or 'fixated' on each object.
  • The researchers found that 'girls showed a visual preference for the doll over the toy truck and boys compared to girls showed a greater number of visual fixations on the truck'.
  • It seems unlikely that object interests in infants younger than nine months of age are a result of internal motivation to conform to external referents of gender role behaviour.
  • The study reinforces the findings of previous research by Dr Alexander involving green vervet monkeys. Male monkeys spent more time playing with traditional male toys such as a car and a ball than did female monkeys. The female monkeys, however, spent more time playing with a doll and a pot than did the males. 
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    The researchers found that 'girls showed a visual preference for the doll over the toy truck and boys compared to girls showed a greater number of visual fixations on the truck'.
Karen Vitek

The National Parks: America's Best Idea: | PBS - 4 views

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    "The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales - from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background - rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy."
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    This series is scheduled to be run again during January 2010. Check your local PBS stations.
Maggie Verster

Free Introduction to General Science course - 15 views

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    Take this free online course to obtain a general introduction to Science. This course covers the basics of Science. It goes from observation and making inferences to scientific experiments and hypothesis testing. It talks about Piltdown Man and provides a safety overview for working in a Science laboratory. This course is suitable for any scientists interested in lab work. It is especially suitable for Science students.
Marc Lijour

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation - CIO Central - CIO Network - Forbes - 7 views

  • Almost every adult I’ve talked with in these countries shares a belief that the path to success is paved with science and engineering.
  • scientists and engineers are celebrities in most countries
  • Already, 70% of engineers with PhD’s who graduate from U.S. universities are foreign-born. Increasingly, these talented individuals are not staying in the U.S – instead, they’re returning home, where they find greater opportunities.
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  • Saudi Arabia has a new university for science and engineering with a staggering $10 billion endowment.
  • In 2009, for the first time, over half of U.S. patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies.
  • China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s number one high-technology exporter.
  • The World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. #48 in quality of math and science education.
  • Five years ago, I was part of a commission that studied U.S. competitiveness. We issued a report called Rising Above the Gathering Storm,
  • Improve K-12 science and math education. Invest in long-term basic research. Attract and retain the best and brightest students, scientists and engineers in the U.S. and around the world. Create and sustain incentives for innovation and research investment.
  • In 2007, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act,
Jonathan Wylie

The Best Free Science Games for Kids Online: Educational Fun for Everyone - 0 views

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    Are your kids inquiring young scientists who are always curious about the world around them? If so, the following websites are just what you need. They contain some of the best science games for kids online. Each of them are fun to explore and play with, but they also have a sound educational base.
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The 50 Most Influential Professors in Education - 0 views

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    There is no arguing the fact that educators are the unsung heroes of modern civilization. Without these people, there would be no one to pass on the knowledge gained in the past to the scientists, lawmakers, and leaders of tomorrow.
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Encyclopedia of Life - 0 views

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    The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. "EoL is the ultimate online field guide for citizen scientists," said Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. "There are many online sites dedicated to specific groups of species such as insects, birds or mammals. Not since Noah, however, has there been an effort like this to bring all the world's species together." The site uses content from 180 partners to bring together images, videos and scientific information, including 35m pages of scanned literature created by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The new site allows members to create their own collection of species. "The virtual collections put life into meaningful contexts from scholarly ones such as Invasive Insects of North America or Endangered Birds of Ecuador to personal collections such as A Checklist of Trees in My Backyard. Only imagination and energy limit the possibilities," said Jesse Ausubel, vice president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation which helps fund the EoL.
Martin Burrett

Snapshot Serengeti - 0 views

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    This is a wonderful citizen science project where users are asked to classify animals on the Serengeti from camera traps to help real scientists survey and track populations of important and endangered wildlife. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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SciDoc Publishers - International Journal of Virology Studies & Research - 0 views

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    SciDoc Publishers is an international publishing company that publishes manuscripts in the field of Science, Medicine and Technololgy (STM). SciDoc acts as a driving factor in providing new era novel research and information to all the researchers and scientists worldwide
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SciDoc Publishers - International Journal of Cancer Studies & Research - 0 views

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    SciDoc Publishers is an international publishing company that publishes manuscripts in the field of Science, Medicine and Technololgy (STM). SciDoc acts as a driving factor in providing new era novel research and information to all the researchers and scientists worldwide
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SciDoc Publishers - Open Access - 0 views

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    SciDoc Publishers is an international publishing company that publishes manuscripts in the field of Science, Medicine and Technololgy (STM). SciDoc acts as a driving factor in providing new era novel research and information to all the researchers and scientists worldwide.
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SciDoc Publishers | Infer,Interpret & Inspire Science - 0 views

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    SciDoc Publishers is an international publishing company that publishes manuscripts in the field of Science, Medicine and Technololgy (STM). SciDoc acts as a driving factor in providing new era novel research and information to all the researchers and scientists worldwide.
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Top 10 Toughest SQL Interview Questions and Answers Guide 2018 | Ace Blog - 0 views

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    SQL means structured query language that is used to communicate with the database, retrieve information and manipulate data stored in the database. It is the most in demand skill that will help you throughout your career, irrespective of the changes in technology that take place every day. So if you have the passion to work with data and want to be a web developer, business analyst, data analyst, data administrator or a data scientist, you must master all SQL concepts. Proficiency in this database programming language along with an analytical bent of mind can take you to great heights and help you achieve your career goals. Recruiters are on the lookout for those professionals who have mastery over their subject. So if you want to crack the interview and get your dream job you will need to prepare yourself with all kinds of SQL interview questions that are usually asked to test your technical skills.
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Origin Pro 10.5.65 Crack Full License key Mac+Win Free Download 2020 - 0 views

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    Origin Pro 10.5.65 Crack 2020 is an industry leading graphing and data analysis software for scientists, engineers to import data stats pics
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Emerge Designed Blockchain-based App to Track Coronavirus Pandemic in Latin America - 0 views

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    Emerge, a blockchain startup based in Toronto, is launching a public safety system app called Civitas to help local authorities in many nations fight against novel coronavirus pandemic. Although scientists haven't yet discovered any medications or vaccines that are proven safe, effective, and reliable to contain coronavirus pandemic, Emerge is working with Penta Network to solve the major challenges. Penta is recognized to have won numerous awards and honors for its pioneering work in blockchain.
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Is There Any Data Scientist Certification In Oracle? - 1 views

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    Information researchers are big data wranglers. They take an tremendous huge of unpleasant data factors (unstructured and structured) and use their powerful abilities in mathematical, research and development to clean, edit and arrange them. Then they apply all their analytic abilities –…
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fNIRS - 0 views

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    Educational Neuroscience (also known as Mind, Brain, and Education) is an exciting and timely new discipline. It brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds, including cognitive brain scientists.
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    Educational Neuroscience (also known as Mind, Brain, and Education) is an exciting and timely new discipline.
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