The Technical Resources Program - Supporting Timber Education & Training aims to deliver resources that enable learning about the use of timber in the building industry.
"Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
This site gives details of The Ambisonics Association and its work. The Association was created in April 2008, with the general aim of promoting ambisonics. Its initial work is concentrated in the (fairly technical) areas of the creation and promotion of collective marks ('trademarks'), standards (e.g. for file formats) and other necessary infrastructure for ambisonics.
On July 17, 1995, the Global Positioning System (GPS), the world's first space-based satellite navigation system is declared operational. GPS provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
"Internet security is hard," he says with emphasis. "All systems have undiscovered holes in them, and it's only a question of how fast the bad guys can discover the holes compared with how fast the good guys can patch them up."
Boston Globe 20 Oct 2013: ... another idea Keith wants to test — spraying a cloud of tiny particles of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s heat back into space and keep it from warming the Earth.
Wired, by Angela Watercutter, May 11, 2011: About the The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, The underground storage facility at the University of Chicago's new Mansueto Library holds 3.5 million volumes that can be accessed by robotic cranes. "...research at the university has shown that the more people look to digital resources, the more they consult physical materials as well, according to Judith Nadler, director of the University of Chicago Library. "
However unlike the Green Revolution 30 years ago, there is virtually no more tillable-land available to grow rice. Future gains must be made solely by improving rice yields, and on top of that, there's an imperative to use fewer harmful chemicals as fertilisers and for pest control.
Systems such as ‘Semantic Archive’ are, in fact, what the Russian security services and Ministry of the Interior (MVD) use to monitor open sources (i.e. the media) and the Internet, including the blogosphere and social networks. The FSB and MVD started buying these systems extensively in the middle of the 2000s. In 2006, for example, during the run up to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, the Interior Ministry bought a ‘Random Information Collection System’ from the Russian software company Smartware, as a precaution, it claimed, against extremism. ‘Instead of Facebook we have XiaoNei, and instead of Twitter, Weibo. The usual policy in China for introducing Internet technology is to allow people to use a new product just until a Chinese equivalent is developed. So now Facebook is banned, and so is Twitter. And the servers for the Chinese versions are in Beijing.’
3/29/2012 Fracking Gas Is Writing America's Energy Policy Nuclear power is no longer an economically viable source of new energy in the United States, the freshly-retired CEO of Exelon, America’s largest producer of nuclear power, said . Obama Administration Banking On Next-Generation Nukes + comments by Henri Horn
By David Biello | March 5, 2010 "One idea is to create enclosed, small "modular reactors," like the one developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now proffered by Santa Fe, N.M.’s Hyperion Power. Its $50-million product would be an enclosed reactor roughly 1.5 meters wide by 2.5 meters tall; generating 25 megawatts, it would be buried underground and good for at least seven years. In fact, the promotional materials, on display at a booth at the inaugural ARPA-E conference, show nothing but a green field with a single tree. Think large (hidden) battery, the company urges."
(Reuters) - German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
"We are a community of people crazy enough to build our own book scanners. We also write Free software for book scanning. We are the missing link between your bookshelf and your e-reader. Join us! Get involved by trying a simple scanner, or push the limits of scanning technology."
Summarizes, albeit indirectly, the ideology of the nuclear renaissance. Updated in March 2011. Provides overview and links: "There are already examples of the globalization of the nuclear industry. At the commercial level, by the end of 2006 three major
Av Anders Lotsson, Computer Sweden, 19.12.2010. " Den goda nyheten är att det kanske inte är så svårt att bygga en kvantdator som vi trodde. Den dåliga nyheten är att kvantdatorer gör all kryptering på internet oduglig" "Det blir konstigare och konstigar
Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced: "Apple might have new features in mind that require a history of your location, but that's our specualtion. The fact that [the file] is transferred across [to
| Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/26/2010 "I would use my Kindle at the beach or the pool and my iPad in bed or on an airplane," says Doug Alexander, who has been a digital reader since the release of the first-generation Kindle in 2007. What he doesn't like a
Firoze Manji and Molly Kane 2010-10-07, Issue 499 : "The technologies, or more precisely corporate control of the new technologies, represents a potential and growing threat to the continent. A continent that has already faced a turbulent history of colo
David Dickson editorial 6 May 2009 : "Nowhere is the promise of nanotechnology stronger than in water treatment. Nanofiltration techniques and nanoparticles can reduce or eliminate contaminants in water and could help deliver a key Millennium Development
Intentional, large-scale manipulation of the environment by humans to bring about environmental change, particularly to counteract the undesired side effects of other human activities. - Retooling the Planet: New ETC Group Report on Geoengineering
"The Book and Discussion Forum for Networked Activists"; the book was Edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. but the discussion in the forum, which started 2004, seems to have died last year. The book contains "Emergent Democracy" by Joi Ito. ;
"The textbooks are outdated, as far as I'm concerned, and there's no reason why our schools should have our students lug around these antiquated and heavy and expensive textbooks" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger 3 June 2009
Nyhet fr 2007. Egentligen får Barnett och hans forskarlag på Delaware-universitetet en stor del av sina pengar från USA:s institut för försvarsforskning, Darpa. Militären vill minska bördorna för amerikanska soldater i fält, till exempel i Irak. I dag slä
S. Wilson, O. Liber, D. Griffiths, and M. Johnson. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007, page 1386--1395. Vancouver, Canada, AACE, (June 2007)