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12 Visualizations That Will Change the Way You View Scale in Your World. Scale is a simple concept.

12 Visualizations That Will Change the Way You View Scale in Your World

From a very early age, children know about big and small, heavy and light, more and less. Extreme scales, however, are another story. Try to imagine, for example, the size of the universe… or $1 trillion made up entirely of dollar bills. Exactly. Grasping the actual quantities involved in extreme scales can be difficult, which makes managing scale in visualizations an interesting problem. Below are 12 visualizations that try to show things at extreme scales. Learn something new every day - Memrise.

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Apprendiscienza. Macchinesemplici [licensed for non-commercial use only] / IL PIANO INCLINATO. The Monty Hall Game Show Problem Video. Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything. Action Science Explorer (Formerly iOpener Workbench) Latest News January 2012.

Action Science Explorer (Formerly iOpener Workbench)

Our paper on Action Science Explorer was accepted by JASIST, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. See the Publications section below for more details. December 2011. Action Science Explorer was featured in a NSF Discoveries report, "A New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient" (pdf). July 2010. Description The goal of the iOpener project is to generate readily-consumable surveys of different scientific domains and topics, targeted to different audiences and levels.

Action Science Explorer is partially an integration of two powerful existing tools the SocialAction network analysis tool and the JabRef reference manager. These tools are linked together to form multiple coordinated views of the data. There are other coordinated views that provide the user with other aspects of the field. Data & Summarization Video Demonstration Below is a video demonstration of ASE in action. Participants Software. A new way to learn. ChronoZoom. Search Tools. World History : HyperHistory. Drug Interactions. Start typing a drug name and select the best match from the list of suggestions.

Drug Interactions

Repeat the process to add multiple drugs. Once your list is complete, you can check for interactions immediately or save your list for future reference. To view your previously saved lists, please sign in. What are drug interactions? Anytime you take more than one medication, or even mix it with certain foods, beverages, or over-the-counter medicines, you are at risk of a drug interaction. Drug-drug interactions - These are the most common type of drug interaction. How Do Drug Interactions Occur? Drug interactions can occur in several different ways: A pharmacodynamic interaction occurs when two drugs given together act at the same or similar receptor site and lead to a greater (additive or synergistic) effect or a decreased (antagonist) effect.

Why it's important to check for interactions Drug interactions are important to check for because they can: Not all drug interactions are bad. OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer. Fractaltastic Evolution. Hello there!

Fractaltastic Evolution

If you enjoy the content on PLOS Biologue, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have for how species relate to each other in evolutionary time. In a perspective article last year, David Penny (one of our editorial board) points out that this is originally a biblical phrase and not, as is sometimes assumed, one that was coined by Darwin.

He also argues that Darwin’s use of this phrase has often been misinterpreted. Darwin used the phrase only once and then to denote competition between species (and groups of species) rather than relationships per se. It has been three weeks since its publication and the article has been downloaded more than 14,000 times and, within only five days of the launch, the website hosting the platform was viewed more than 100,000 times. It is, as the authors acknowledge, not perfect but that’s not the point. Khan Academy. Piotr Wozniak. Formazione on line. Un'opportunità professionale per lo Psicologo? Learn. Together. Joomla! Elements and Standards Learning Tool.

In this section, we offer an interactive model which details the analysis and assessment of reasoning, and enables you to apply the model to real life problems.

Elements and Standards Learning Tool

On this page we introduce the analysis and assessment of reasoning. To skip this introduction and go directly to the model, see the links near the bottom of this page. Why the Analysis of Thinking Is Important Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed, or downright prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. All Thinking Is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up Eight basic structures are present in all thinking: Whenever we think, we think for a purpose within a point of view based on assumptions leading to implications and consequences. Each of these structures has implications for the others. The Pattern Seekers.