Texas Won’t Adopt Common Science Standards Soon August 7, 2012
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Cargill said that when the time comes to revise the state’s science curriculum, the board will look at the Next Generation standards. But she said that the standards will most likely serve as a reference guide, not a rulebook.
“We write our own standards here in Texas,” she said.
About | Starbound August 7, 2012
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We want you to feel like an explorer!
Because we’re working so hard to make each planet unique, we want to give you the tools to catalogue the things you find and make sure absolutely everything you find has depth in the world. Much like old school point and click adventures, absolutely every object in the world, right down to the trees and flowers, can be examined for a description.
See a weird alien tree? Examine it! Maybe you’ll discover something about its use! For any explorer, sharing discoveries is important. So whilst the game is fully coop (Bring your friends along! Form an expedition!) you can also record your findings in an electronic logbook. Not only that, but each and every planet has unique coordinates in the Universe that you can share online, so other players can check out exactly what you found!
via About | Starbound.
<<Sandy Note: One of the tasks Richard Feynman set himself was applying his insights into QED to Gravitation. He wondered if relativity could be derived from QED, so starting there in the quantum he worked backwards toward gravitation, which by this point in the late 40’s early 50s, felt like an entirely different kind of physics. What kind of game could you make where students unravel the standard model of physics in a similar fashion? These MMO sandboxes make me wonder…>>
About NECSI | NECSI August 6, 2012
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The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent academic research and educational institution with students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. In addition to the in-house research team, NECSI has co-faculty, students and affiliates from MIT, Harvard, Brandeis and other universities nationally and internationally.
NECSI has been instrumental in the development of complex systems science and its applications. We study how interactions within a system lead to its behavioral patterns, and how the system interacts with its environment. Our new tools overcome the limitations of classical approximations for the scientific study of complex systems, such as social organizations, biological organisms and ecological communities. NECSI’s unified mathematically-based approach transcends the boundaries of physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, management, and medicine (see Complex Systems Resources).
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Historical Network Research August 6, 2012
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Historical research has faced up to the challenge posed by social network analysis. The latter has emerged as a young and dynamic field in historical research; it is still in its formative phase and as a consequence hard to view as a whole. Until now however, social network analysis methods and theories have been applied to historical data in various fields, for example in the study of correspondences, of social movements, of kinship and in economic history. The fragmentary nature of their sources often leads scholars to rely on rather robust concepts of centrality measures, bimodal networks, visualizations and the adaptation of widespread theorems such as brokerage or the concept of strong and weak ties.
NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel August 6, 2012
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NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs. With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel window.
via NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel.
Networks / Pajek August 6, 2012
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Program for
Large Network Analysis
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techienews.co.uk – A Turnout for the History ebooks August 6, 2012
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Figures released by online retail service Amazon reveal that since the start of 2012, more eBooks have been sold through their site than print-books. For every 100 physical books sold, 114 eBooks are downloaded. For such a shift in buying habits to take place in just two years is staggering. The US has reported similar trends over the four years that it has been using eBooks via dedicated platforms.
PGs in SELLL: ‘Moving Towards Science in the Long Nineteenth Century’: A Postgraduate Symposium August 6, 2012
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Accordingly, we invite proposals from postgraduates for papers which broadly consider ‘moves’ towards science in the literature of the long nineteenth century, or in contemporary approaches to nineteenth-century literature.
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FHSAsia August 4, 2012
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Welcome! The Forum for the History of Science in Asia (FHSAsia) is an association of individuals interested in furthering scholarship in the history of science, medicine, and technology in Asia.
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Outreach and Education Committee Grants | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) August 3, 2012
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Outreach and Education Committee Grants
Postgraduate Research Grants
Are you a Masters or PhD Student in the history of science, technology and medicine? Do you need to visit an archive as part of your research? If so, then why not apply for one of our postgrad research grants? These awards, of up to £150, are specifically designed to cover travel, or similar costs, associated with archival visits. Please send up to 500 words briefly describing the purpose of your visit, as well as your current institution and supervisor, to outreach@bshs.org.uk. Grant recipients are invited to write a short account of their most exciting archival find for the BSHS magazine, Viewpoint. This year’s deadline is 30th June 2012.
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Culture Foam: Bubbling Up 