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DAVID ROSE: The mini ice age starts here | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Watts Up With That?

MSNBC reports that the lack of temperature rise in the last 12 years has convinced environmentalist James Lovelock ( The Gaia Hypothesis) that the climate alarmism wasn’t warranted.
http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=62 Paul MacRae, June 24, 2008 Most geologists aren’t part of Al Gore’s “100 per cent consensus” of scientists that humans are the principal cause of global warming and that we have to take drastic steps to deal with it.

FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong » Climate change: Learning to think like a geologist

Geologen bemessen Klimaverschiebungen in langen Zeiträumen - in sehr langen.

Klimawandel - Geologen ticken anders - Wissen - sueddeutsche.de

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/klimawandel-geologen-ticken-anders-1.583200

Peter Suber, Open Access Overview (definition, introduction)

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept.

3quarksdaily

So difficult to choose! I took something away from every one of these wonderful pieces. Some I eliminated for entirely unfair reasons — deepest apologies especially to Lydia Kiesling whose piece on Sister Carrie married sensibility with insight and might well have won a prize this year had Kiesling not already won one last year. http://3quarksdaily.com/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernen_durch_Lehren In Deutschland ist Lernen durch Lehren in seiner modernen Form mit dem Namen Jean-Pol Martin verbunden, der von 1980 bis 2008 LdL als pädagogisches Gesamtkonzept entwickelte und mit Hilfe eines Kontaktnetzes verbreitete. Geschichte der Idee des Lernens durch Lehren [ Bearbeiten ]

Lernen durch Lehren – Wikipedia

http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/wissen/0,1518,714844,00.html

Faire Noten: Software soll Schulaufsätze bewerten - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - SchulSPIEGEL

Eine schöne Schrift gibt Pluspunkte, der Name Kevin Abzug - weil Prüfer keine objektiven Noten geben, lässt die Bildungsforscherin Nadine Schlomske eine Software Klausuren bewerten. Im Interview mit SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt sie, warum Lehrer trotzdem noch genug zu tun haben werden.
scroogle-privacy-first-search-engine-shuts-down-for-good http://josephevers.blogspot.com/2012/02/scroogle-shuts-down-for-good.html

Creepy Gmail

by Richard M. Stallman Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in email messages?

We Can Put an End to Word Attachments - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

A stateless language that Europe must embrace | Education | Guardian Weekly

The language policy in the European Union is both ineffective and hypocritical, and its ideas of linguistic equality and multilingualism are costly and cumbersome illusions.
Literatur Das literarische Werk von mehr als 700 Autoren, darunter Andersen , Balzac , Brentano , Chamisso , Cervantes , Dante , Dostoevskij , Droste-Hülshoff , Fontane , Goethe , Grabbe , Grimm , Heine , Kafka , Klabund , Kleist , Lessing , May , Novalis , Poe , Ringelnatz , Shakespeare , Schiller , Storm , Tucholsky , Zola . Eine riesige Bildersammlung mit mehr als 40.000 Werken von etwa 4.500 Künstlern und Künstlerinnen, darunter Altdorfer , Bosch , Cézanne , Corinth , Dürer , Friedrich , Gauguin , Klimt , Liebermann , Macke , Manet , Monet , Schiele .

Bibliothek - Zeno.org

The There That Wasn't There

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution , by Denis Dutton.