Huggies’ New Invention: Jean Diapers? – TIME NewsFeed It’s the end of the world as we know it… (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Month: May 2010
As technological skills become synonymous with literacy, it is imperative that students learn to use emerging real-time technologies for research, experimentation, problem-solving, collaboration and creativity. Tech-savvy teachers are already taking advantage of these very technologies to build their own skills and lesson plans. The Real Time Web & K-12 Education – In and Out of the Classroom Amen.
Even with cheap printed books, you can tell that someone proofed every page. With many e-books, they’ve clearly just been run through a converter with no proofing whatsoever. Daring Fireball Linked List: Texts, as Opposed to Books Astute comment from Gruber that reminds me of the transition from handwritten manuscripts and texts (often laboriously copied) to texts manufactured on printing presses at the end of the late Renaissance. Over the next five years, I expect …
Don’t Forget Your Towel Today
Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour. http://towelday.org/
Volatile and Decentralized: The Secret Lives of Professors
Volatile and Decentralized: The Secret Lives of Professors I think I made the right decision to scrap my dreams of being the Professor in Good Will Hunting and go for the teacher in Dead Poet’s Society.
We realize that removing features and support is not easy, but with this spring cleaning done, we’ve laid the groundwork for more Reader improvements down the line. Official Google Reader Blog: Spring Cleaning: Comments, offline, and older browser support I love the way the Google Reader team links to developers that work in both the Google and the Apple spaces. That rocks.
We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-Mbp Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence information and its transplantation into a Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cell to create new Mycoplasma mycoides cells that are controlled only by the synthetic chromosome. The only DNA in the cells is the designed synthetic DNA sequence, including “watermark” sequences and other designed gene deletions and polymorphisms, and mutations acquired during the building process. The new cells …
At that time, Bent Stumpe was an electronics engineer, newly recruited to work on developments for the SPS Central Control room. One of the things his supervisor asked him to build as soon as possible was a device to control a pointer on a screen, also called a tracker ball. The bowling balls – CERN Bulletin Fascinating how revolutionary objects often get their start as very practical ideas.
Spartanburg Day School’s New Upper School
“The architectural style is a little bit different than what you’ve seen on campus so far,” Jacobs said. “This is really a new image for the school. It looks back to sort of the history of private day schools in this country.” So exciting to be a part of this process and I’m happy my students will get to enjoy the benefits of a new space and ever-vitalized school in the coming years.