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Picturing to Learn (PtL) is founded on the following core premises: one From a student's perspective: undergraduate students can clarify their own understanding of scientific concepts and processes by creating drawings that explain these concepts to non-experts. two From a teacher's perspective: drawings can be useful as: * assessment tools, allowing instructors to identify students' scientific understanding and pinpoint their misconceptions * educational tools, to help inform instructors' lecture preparation

What is iGlue? The right meaning to the right word. iGlue is an online content management application that reorganizes data fragmented on the net. It arranges pictures, videos, people, notions and geographical locations into a unified and manageable structure. Through this collaboratively edited database iGlue shows the content network of any webpage.

Silobreaker is a search and aggregation service for news and current affairs that looks at the data it finds like a person does. It recognizes things - companies, people, topics, places - and puts them in context. By filtering out the noise and building up a meaningful picture from the information that matters, Silobreaker enables its users to spend more time learning from the web, and less time searching it.

An international research consortium has been formed to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation. The 1000 Genomes Project will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world. The project will receive major support from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, the Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen in China and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In my previous article, I introduced the Map/Reduce model as a powerful model for parallelism. However, although Map/Reduce is simple, powerful, and provides a good opportunity to parallelize algorithm, it is based on a rigid procedural structure that requires injection of custom user code and therefore it is not easy to understand the big picture from a high level. You need to drill into the implementation code of the map and reduce functions in order to figure out what is going on.

Argument maps are diagrams that display the structure of an argument. By combining pictures and words, argument maps help people to create better arguments and analyses. iLogos is a freely-available, cross-platform tool that allows you to easily construct and share argument maps.