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In the history of photography, the leap from film to digital was a breakthrough as profound as the move from black-and-white to color. Photosynth is the first photo site that really capitalizes on that shift, with a new way to look at pictures. Instead of arranging photos in a traditional album, the site finds relationships among pictures and digitally composites them to create an immersive 3-D photo environment called a "synth." The best synths - like this one pieced together from the Apollo moon-landing shots - look like David Hockney himself Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918031_1918016_1918005,00.html #ixzz1RRRull6M

Like Google Earth for the heavens, WWT aggregates terabytes of astronomical data from the world's biggest telescopes to create a single virtual scope that anyone can look through. WWT is not a model of the known universe, but rather a centralized repository for just about everything known about the universe. The idea is to democratize the science of astronomy with a single tool that can be used by students and scientists. Who knows, when everyone has access to the same data, maybe the next big discovery in astronomy will be made by an amateur? There are hundreds of terabytes of digitized sky - enough data for everyone Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918031_1918016_1918007,00.html #ixzz1RRSH4taN

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Time is of the essence to all of us, and it's difficult to find the time to go through all of the education apps in the iTunes Store that would be useful to us. This is a starter list to some valuable apps for the main subject areas. The author of the site is Australian, so some subject areas are different from ours, but the information is useful.