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Big Think | Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders
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.
Sofia Project
Sofia Pilot Publishes Eight "Open" Courses FOOTHILL GLOBAL ACCESS, Los Altos Hills, CA--Content for eight courses is now available online for free through the Sofia open content initiative, thanks to the joint contributions of faculty, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and can now be accessed at the Course Gallery . Learn more...
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Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources , learning projects , and research for use in all levels , types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers , students , and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities . To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now . Electric Circuit Analysis deals with the fundamentals of electrical circuits, their components and the mathematical tools used to represent and analyse electrical circuits.
About Wolfram|Alpha: Making the World's Knowledge Computable
We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries. Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity. Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come.
Visualization Methods Exploration
Introduction Over at Visual-Literacy.org , Ralph Lengler and Martin Eppler have published this great Periodic Table of methods of visualisation. This displays around 100 diagram types, with examples and a multi-faceted classification by: In this application I have borrowed the list of diagrams to create an alternative interface, partly as an exericise in XML processing with XQuery and the eXist native XML database , on whose site this is currently hosted.. There is an entry in the DSA Module Blog which describes the process of scaping the file to get this data.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License . by VOEF, Mark Burnet Director
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University of Michigan | Open.Michigan
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Index - Tufts OpenCourseWare
A great university constantly expands its reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community's most critical needs. This begins with sharing knowledge among colleagues, between departments, among schools and finally across countries and continents. Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online.
Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection , hosted by Carnegie Mellon University
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Science - Creative Commons
The more we understand about science and its complexities, the more important it is for scientific data to be shared openly. It’s not useful to have ten different labs doing the same research and not sharing their results; likewise, we’re much more likely to be able to pinpoint diseases if we have genomic data from a large pool of individuals. Since 2004, we’ve been focusing our efforts to expand the use of Creative Commons licenses to scientific and technical research.Project Gutenberg - free ebooks
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Public Radio Exchange is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming. PRX is also a growing social network and community of listeners, producers, and stations collaborating to reshape public radio. Learn more.Explore 5 Copyrighted Image Thinkstock Dip into insights from OU academics. Watch, listen, debate, play and discover more about your passions. Read more : Explore 5
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Welcome | Faulkes Telescope Project
Search the telescopes data archive, by object name, filter set, telescope name. Download the FITS and see if there is any SDSS data for the object.Open Education