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The NanoLight promises to be the most energy efficient lightbulb in the world, and it boasts a design unlike any lightbulb you’ve ever seen.
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Big data wants you to forget it exists. Before it leaves human hands, we have to take control and harness its potential for the greater good.
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In his session on digital learning futures at learning Technologies 2012, Steve Wheeler, associate Professor of Learning Technology, Plymouth University look…
This article is the final one in the series, covering the subject of serotonin and how it relates to performance and recovery. Enjoy! Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that allows you to experience pleasure and self-confidence.
Donna Karan is selling a bracelet exclusively on Twitter, which will benefit her Urban Zen Foundation.
Once you’ve connected your account, you can tweet with the hashtag #BuyUrbanZenBracelet and look for an automated response from @AmexSync. The automated Twitter bot will @mention your Twitter handle with a link to confirm your purchase. If you tweet the confirmation hashtag within 15 minutes of the @AmexSync reply, your purchase will be complete.
Technology integration isn’t confined to a single 24 hours, of course. To help inform your practice on Digital Learning Day and beyond, we offer related stories featured in SLJ and the Digital Shift, including the insight and expertise of Joyce Valenza, Richard Byrne, and other contributors.
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A team of Australian scientists has developed a powerful microscope using the laws of quantum mechanics to probe the inner workings of living cells.
The team, a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the Australian National University, believe their microscope could lead to a better understanding of the basic components of life and eventually allow quantum mechanics to be probed at a macroscopic level.
Women who breastfed their babies have reduced rates of ovarian cancer, researchers have found.
Increased ovulation heightens the risk of cell mutation which can cause ovarian cancer. As breastfeeding often delays ovulation, we were able to effectively demonstrate that breastfeeding for 20 months would decrease the risk of ovarian cancer by 50 per cent, and that the 20 months of breastfeeding could be spread over a number of children and still have the same effect.
“The results of our study would recommend that mothers breastfeed for 12 months to gain substantial effect – and longer if they wish.”
A molecule known as Myosin VI plays a major role in communication between nerve cells in the brain, researchers have found.
Understanding how the molecule Myosin VI helps maintain an active communication between neurons could pave the way to better methods of reinstating neuronal communication in various brain disorders.
Australians experience tornadoes, but they are not as frequent as in the United States.
There is a long-standing myth that Australia doesn’t get tornadoes. This simply isn’t true. Just ask residents of Burnett Heads and Bargara, on Queensland’s southeast coast, or the Melburnians who were affected by tornadoes on Christmas Day, 2011.
While we may not experience tornadoes with the same frequency or ferocity as in the United States – the most tornado-prone country in the world – they have been documented in Australia as far back as 1834.
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The company is among the most product-focused startups in New York City and employees are often power users themselves.
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A race between a supercar and a helicopter on Top Gear Korea got just a little bit too dramatic when the helicopter crashed into the ground.
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Doctorate in leadership programs provide skills for senior management positions in business, government and other settings. This page tells you more about them.
Think you’re a tech-savvy parent? Sure, but compared to your kids? Might take some work to catch up.
For parents, mobile technology has become a losing game of Whac-A-Mole, as we desperately try to keep up with all the various apps and communication platforms that are currently in vogue. And for every app that we think we understand, there are five more that we have yet to learn about. So here are some of my best practices you can follow to keep up:
Sony wants to make a pillow that instead of just helping you fall asleep helps you wake up. In a patent filing, the company outlines a pillow that would have electrodes and sensors on it and would make napping more efficient.
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Between 2011 and 2012, Georgina Cranston documented the lives of homeless women in London. This is Lucy’s story
The Curiosity rover’s first rock drilling on Mars was a success. It will take several days for the rover to transfer the rock sample to its instruments for analysis.
Using the drill at the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm, Curiosity on Friday chipped away at a flat, veined rock bearing numerous signs of past water flow. After nearly seven minutes of pounding, the result was a drill hole 2½-inches deep. Images beamed back to Earth overnight showed a fresh borehole next to a shallower test hole Curiosity had made earlier.
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The attack, the latest volley in Microsoft’s Scroogled campaign, comes with a website and is aimed to boost interest in the veteran software company’s Outlook.com email service.
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IJEDICT Weekly News, by Stewart Marshall: This free online newspaper is a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos on innovations, developments, educational courses, and other useful resources about ICT for education and development.
Jawbone, a wearable technology company, announced Monday that it has acquired Massive Health, a mobile app developer, for an undisclosed sum.
Jawbone started out as a wireless gadget maker, but then took a step into the health industry in 2011 with the release of UP, a bracelet that tracks your diet, sleep and exercise similar to Nike+ Fuelband and Fitbit. Massive Health was founded in 2010 and attracted a fair amount of press and venture funding for its goal of using apps and big data to foster healthy living. The startup’s first app, the Eatery, encourages users to eat healthier through an Instagram-style community.
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Flip through the gallery to see this week’s collection of the top 5 apps for kids.
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Ever been stung by some criticism, then visited Facebook and suddenly felt better about yourself? Turns out we’re soothing our bruised egos with the social network all the time, according to a study from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
One Harvard professor says some of Google’s ads discriminate, linking “racially associated” names to a possible criminal background.
One study by a Harvard professor says some of Google’s ads discriminate, linking “racially associated” names to a possible criminal background. Government and technology professor Latanya Sweeney searched 2,184 full names on Google and Reuters.com, which uses Google AdWords advertisements. She found that “black identifying” names were more likely to show ads suggesting arrest, as compared to “white identifying” names.
Names often given to black babies, like DeShawn, Darnell and Jermaine, suggested criminal ads in 81 to 86% of searches on one site, and up to 95% on the other. Names like Geoffrey, Jill and Emma, typically assigned to white babies, resulted in these types of ads 23 to 29% of the time on one site and 0 to 60% on the other, Sweeney’s study says.
Computer science online programs prepare you for a profession in a rapidly changing field. Find out more about these degrees, where to get them, and more …
There are many schools that offer training in the area of computer science, from small community colleges to technical schools and large universities.
Home health aide training can start you in a career in health care or nursing. This page has details of the training, where you can find it, and more …
HHAs work in the home to provide comfort to all those needing it, especially those who are elderly, ill or recovering from an illness or accident.
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Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to the analysis, research and treatment of severe mental health disorders, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Plenty of LED desk lamps are either in the prototype stage or available for sale, but this one is a high-quality, versatile product at a fair price.
What’s so great about LEDs, anyway? Their most attractive attribute: energy savings. This 11-Watt LED desk lamp can give you as much light as a 75-Watt incandescent light bulb. That lets you illuminate your desk or nightstand for about 1/7th the energy you’re probably using now. And since the 27 LEDs in this lamp each last more than 40,000 hours, it’s likely you won’t ever need to change them.
There is enough energy for people to reap from the wind to meet all of the world’s power demands without radically altering the planet’s climate, according to two independent teams of scientists.
Wind power is often touted as environmentally friendly, generating no pollutants. It is an increasingly popular source of renewable energy, with the United States aiming to produce 20 percent of its electricity by wind power by 2030. Still, there have been questions as to how much energy wind power can supply the world, and how green it actually is, given how it pulls energy from the atmosphere.
To learn more, climate scientist Katherine Marvel at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Calif., and her colleagues developed a global climate model that analyzed how wind turbines would drag on the atmosphere to harvest energy from winds at the planet’s surface and higher altitudes. Historically, people have built wind turbines on the ground and in the ocean, but research suggests kite-borne turbines could generate more power from steadier, faster high-altitude winds.
Adding wind turbines of any kind slows winds, and Marvel and her colleagues found that adding more than a certain amount of turbines would no longer generate more electricity. Still, their simulations suggest that at least 400 terawatts — or 400 trillion watts of power — could be generated from surface winds, and more than 1,800 terawatts could be extracted from winds throughout the atmosphere. In comparison, people globally currently use about 18 terawatts of power.
Simulating a century’s worth of amped-up wind-energy production suggests that harvesting maximum power from these winds would have dramatic long-term effects on the climate, triggering major shifts in atmospheric circulation.
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Find out more about the work of a psychology counselor and about taking a counseling psychology masters degree online. Locate schools and programs suitable for you.
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Anonymous released information for 4,000 bank executives as part of OpLastResort, a campaign to bring about cyber crime prosecution reform after coder and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
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Find out more about online banking degree programs. This page explains what the courses are, what employers expect, and what you can expect to earn.
The world’s most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.
The vaccine, MVA85A, was designed to improve protection from the only existing tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, which is routinely given to newborns. Though the new vaccine appeared safe, scientists found no proof it prevented tuberculosis, an airborne disease that kills more than 1 million people worldwide every year. Previous tests of the vaccine in adults had been promising and researchers said the trial provided useful data to inform future studies. There are a dozen other TB vaccines currently being tested. Some health officials were discouraged by the results. “It’s pretty disappointing,” said Dr. Jennifer Cohn, a medical coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, who was not part of the study. “Infants are at really high risk of TB but this doesn’t seem to offer them any protection.”
From the teacher’s and the student’s point of view, the development of OER sounds all good. But there are challenges, and some people only see the down side to OER. This page looks at the OER challenges and how they can be tackled.
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The most detailed study of social media ever conducted
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What are the real ways students learn? Is daydreaming a good thing? Should they play violent video games? A new report takes a close look.
Katrina A. Meyer
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership
University of North Dakota
katrina_meyer@und.nodak.edu
Abstract
This article presents information drawn from research on brain processes that impact perception, memory, learning, and understandings about the world. This information is related to the use of interactive video and the Web in distance education through a discussion of how best to enhance learning - or mitigate problems caused - through the use of these technologies.
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We’ve compiled a list of 10 exceptional free or open source apps for developers to help keep costs minimal, improve productivity and simplify workflow.
