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Gideon Burton

My So-Called Second Life: Are You Your Avatar? | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific Ame... - 1 views

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    An account of a science writer broadcasting a podcast from Second Life. Includes brief and helpful background on the history of avatars and their social function and best practices. A good intro to avatars.
Parker Woody

Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate -- Kaiser 329 (5994): 896 -- Science - 0 views

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    Great article on the open access campaign of scholarly journals.
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    Article on the open access campaign of scientific journals
Kristi Koerner

Women alchemists - 0 views

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    Women in science including Cavendish
Brian Earley

InnoCentive: Crowdsourcing bored brains - 0 views

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    Crowdsourcing science problems through a challenge system.
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    InnoCentive showcases tough problems in industry that have stumped the pros.  Register as a solve, and get paid to figure it out.
Erin Hamson

School (Architecture) - 0 views

  • This text may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact the translator or spo-help@umich.edu for more information.
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      The article is on one school of architecture, not likly to be found in a modern encyclopedia.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Notice the avaliability of this source. Doesn't flow with open science, or the open knowledge descirbed therein.
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    This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
Kristi Koerner

The New Invisible College - 2 views

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    A book and essays about how our global technological culture has revolutionized science! Can you say Digital Civilization?
Andrew DeWitt

Steampunk - Wikipedia - 0 views

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    A sub-genre of science fiction based of a Victorian era, steam-powered, Britain. Tuesday's digital culture component. Steampunk you make recognize: Wild Wild West (movie), Sherlock Holmes (movie)
Shaun Frenza

Motorized Hub - 1 views

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    Science fiction in action - or at least in a website. Should have posted as Singularity Hub.
Danny Patterson

Timeline of Charles Darwin's life - 0 views

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    This is a fun timeline of the events attributable to Charles Darwin's life. It includes information regarding his life, his death, and how he has affected society and science after his death.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - 0 views

  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  • "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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    I guess I just really like what brilliant people have to say :)
Margaret Weddle

Atomic Age #1 - Atomic Age (comic book issue) - Comic Vine - 0 views

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    ""Atomic Age #1" is a comic whose story involves the arrival of an alien humanoid on a US Air Force base located on a fictional island in the South Pacific." History, Science, & comic books! fun!!
Gideon Burton

You Arent Blogging Yet?!? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences - 1 views

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    Very good article about how important it is for scientists to be blogging -- how much opportunity it opens for them.
Daniel Zappala

A Logic Named Joe - 1 views

  • Say you punch "Station SNAFU" on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your logic's screen. Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast or who won today's race at Hialeah or who was mistress of the White House durin' Garfield's administration or what is PDQ and R sellin' for today, that comes on the screen too.
    • Daniel Zappala
       
      Joe is Google
  • it made Joe a individual
    • Daniel Zappala
       
      Joe has machine intelligence.
  • But I think he went kinda remote-control exploring in the tank.
    • Daniel Zappala
       
      Joe is using data mining.
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  • An' logics can do a Iotta things that ain't been found out yet.
    • Daniel Zappala
       
      In science fiction, machine intelligence launches us into the unknown -- computers might be able to do things that we can't conceive of ourselves!
  • In theory, a censor block is gonna come on an' the screen will say severely, "Public Policy Forbids This Service."
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      Joe disables content filtering services.
  • The screen says, "Service question: What is your name?" She is kinda puzzled, but she punches it. The screen sputters an' then says: "Secretarial Service Demonstration! You—" It reels off her name, address, age, sex, coloring, the amounts of all her charge accounts in all the stores, my name as her husband, how much I get a week, the fact that I've been pinched three times—twice was traffic stuff, and once for a argument I got in with a guy—and the interestin' item that once when she was mad with me she left me for three weeks an' had her address changed to her folks' home. Then it says, brisk: "Logics Service will hereafter keep your personal accounts, take messages, and locate persons you may wish to get in touch with. This demonstration is to introduce the service."
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      More echoes of Google -- privacy vs convenience
  • Then I sweat!
    • Daniel Zappala
       
      Social networking makes it easier to be unfaithful, causes tension in marriages.
  • Logics are civilization! If we shut off logics, we go back to a kind of civilization we have forgotten how to run!
  • That couldn't be allowed out general, of course. You gotta make room for kids to grow up. But it's a pretty good world, now Joe's turned off. Maybe I'll turn him on long enough to learn how to stay in it. But on the other hand, maybe—
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      Technology introduces new moral questions
Brandon McCloskey

Chinese Cow Manure Generates Electricity In Largest-Ever Methane Capture System | Popul... - 0 views

  • A gigantic Chinese dairy farm is now the world’s largest methane farm, turning a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions into a lucrative renewable energy source.
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    How agricultural advancements are evolving their own energy converters.
Samantha Coleman

The Perfect Job For Me - 1 views

I have graduated in Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education and have successfully passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers three years ago. I have always dreamed of working abroad but have...

started by Samantha Coleman on 19 Dec 12 no follow-up yet
Samantha Coleman

Perfect Site to Look for Perfect Job - 1 views

I graduated in Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education a year ago and until now I am still looking for the best venue where can I find a teaching job. Luckily, I have found out about Schools and...

started by Samantha Coleman on 23 Jan 13 no follow-up yet
Gideon Burton

Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding - 2 views

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    The development of protein folding sequences has been successfully crowdsourced through a video game developed to reward those who solve this problem in molecular biology
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