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“Problems like the artificial heart are still unsolved, there's still room for innovation, to learn from science, and to design something better.”
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Visual Quantum Mechanics
The Visual Quantum Mechanics project, funded by the National Science Foundation, introduces quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher-level math. To reach these students, the instructional units integrate interactive computer programs and digital multimedia with inexpensive materials and written documents in an activity-based environment.
Big Think — Get to know — Experts and Ideas
Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born? In our time, many of the political battles over the body revolve around reproduction, and therefore the rights of women. Abortion and birth control, specifically, are epicenters of controversy in the United States, and the site of a fervent cultural clash between religious ideas about sex and reproduction and democratic ideals of personal liberty.
Today we’re bringing you a roundup of some of the great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian classics available on the web. And what better way to get started than with Aldous Huxley reading a dramatized recording of his 1932 novel, Brave New World . The reading aired on the CBS Radio Workshop in 1956.
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Learning about the world through photography | TrekEarth
Discover Your Inner Photographer The underlying theme of TrekEarth is learning more about the world through photography. TrekEarth fosters this by allowing photographers to display their work grouped by regions in a supportive and orderly environment. This is accomplished by an easy-to-use system which encourages people to critique each other's work. Integrated with this system are forums designed to encourage discussion about specific photos, countries, and general topics.
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
Speech Accent Archive
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Project Syndicate - A World of Ideas
Project Syndicate - A World of Ideas
Project Syndicate boasts the most advanced commenting method available online. Our state-of-the-art “ProPyn” system allows you either to leave a general comment about an article, or to “pin” a comment to a specific paragraph. What’s more, you can set custom filters to manage visible comments, making it easy to avoid distractions and get the most out of your participation.
Less Wrong
Thinking and deciding are central to our daily lives. The Less Wrong community aims to gain expertise in how human brains think and decide, so that we can do so more successfully. We use insights from cognitive science , social psychology , probability theory , and decision theory to improve our understanding of how the world works and what we can do to achieve our goals . Want to know if your doctor's diagnosis is correct? It helps to understand Bayes' Theorem .
100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best C
Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges , you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. Richard Dawkins on our “queer” universe : Listen to this talk from biologist Richard Dawkins to consider the strangeness of our universe, and how there are so many things out there we can’t comprehend. Kary Mullis on what scientists do : Biochemist Kary Mullis references the 17th century as he talks about the nature of discovery and experimentation.Spreeder is a free service provided by 7-Speed-Reading TM . If you like this site, please have a look at our powerful 7 Speed Reading Software .
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Teacher Resources - Free teacher resources such as TeacherLINK's Treasures for Teachers, units, lesson plans, worksheets, multimedia files, etc. Many of these are produced by students in the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. YETC Resources - Resources that are available only to Utah State University's College of Education and Human Services students and faculty. These require a username and password, which can be obtained at the YETC.