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Category Archives: Curricula
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Released
Microsoft released Robotics Developer Studio 2008, a software program that enables users to create applications for robots. The previous two versions of the software have been downloaded 250,000 times, and more than 60 companies currently use the software for developing … Continue reading
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Europeana Online Library Launched
The EU recently launched its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe’s cultural heritage. Europeana complements other online programs offered by individual European countries. The Internet and digitalisation techniques “enable a Czech student to browse the British library without … Continue reading
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Bringing Invisibility Cloaks Closer
Researchers have engineered two new materials that bend light in entirely new ways. These materials are the first that work in the optical band of the spectrum, which encompasses visible and infrared light. Such cloaks, long depicted in science fiction, … Continue reading
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Conceptual knowledge increases infants’ memory
Fourteen month old babies, the same as adults, remember only three things at a time, and get past this limitation by categorising. When researchers helped the babies group toys in spatially separate groups, or naming them with different nonsense words, … Continue reading
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Taimi of Kentridge HS WA Top Calculus Teacher
Jim Whaley and Gaston Caperton report that Kentridge (WA) mathematics teacher Marguerite Taimi received the top Siemens Award for Advanced Placement teacher in the state of Washington. Over the past dozen years, the Kentridge AP Calculus program has achieved a … Continue reading
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Siemens House of Little Scientists
Richard Milne reports that Siemens, Bosch and hundreds of companies in Europe give material and money to kindergartens to try to interest children as young as three in technology and science. German companies have 95,000 vacancies for engineers and only … Continue reading
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DOSSIER ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The Center for Armenian Rememberance recently released RAPHAEL LEMKIN’S DOSSIER ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE This is an authoritative publication about one of the most under covered yet crucial aspects of disputes in the Middle East. I urge educators at all … Continue reading
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Summer Reading 2008 – Mercersburg Academy
The entire Mercersburg Academy will read at least one of these four summer reading selections: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, … Continue reading
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Demonstrates Control of Memristors
Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute AOB Chair, demonstrates control of memristors. This discovery could lead to computers that learn. A memristor is one of four basic electrical circuit components, joining the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. … Continue reading
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Nano Systems Academic Exchange Agreement
The signing of an Academic Exchange Agreement between the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and the Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES) of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan occurred on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at the CNSI Building. The Academic … Continue reading
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