September 2009
To Fly Free in Space →
To Fly Free in Space Credit: STS-41B, NASA
Explanation: At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out…
Passing the Sniff Test →
I found a discussion over brunch entertaining.
Apparently women sniffed teeshirts worn 2 days by males. Women preferred the shirts belonging to genetically dissimilar men. These are the good men…
Watch Out For Sinkholes in Georgia →
Back in 1994 a neighbor city, Albany, GA, experienced massive flooding. For a couple months after the waters receded, sinkholes opened up under houses and cars driving along roads in the formerly…
Tracking Specific File Use →
CE/Vista Reports and Tracking displays summaries of activity. If an instructor seeks to know who clicked on a specific file, then Reports and Tracking falls down on the job.
Course Instructor can…
Site Changes →
Blog
Upgraded to the Tarski 2.5 theme. Previously I was using the Tarski 2.4.
One of the reasons I like Tarski is the opportunity for a custom header image. Something I can use of my own….
"For just pennies a day" →
There are so many things you can purchase or accomplish for just pennies a day. You can get lots of interesting magazine subscriptions, or a good life insurance plan—no physical required. You can…
TED Talks:Web as random →
In the first video, The Web as random acts of kindness, the characterization of the founding of the Internet here is a group of high school teenagers working in their garage to altruistically to…
Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late →
As health care workers in the U.S. gear up for the flu season, they facea paradox: on the one hand, they will have too little vaccine against the novel influenza A (H1N1) strain to protect the…
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Point, Click, and Cheat: Frequency and Type of Academic Dishonesty in the Virtual Classroom
Strobist Meetup →
Back in July I mentioned Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk. A number of people from the Athens Flickr Meetups group showed for the August walk at the State Botanical Garden of…
Reader Photo Gallery: Crazy Dust Storm Turns... →
Shared by Ez
Poor Ben.
Dust storms swept over Sydney Wednesday morning, turning the city sky so red, some residents thought they’d left the blue planet.
“It was like waking up on…
Geisha Renee →
Geisha Renee, originally uploaded by Ezra F. My favorite of the series. Renee was patient with me, which I appreciate given this was my first time playing with this setup. I was borrowing…
Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March... →
The habits and needs of a little-understood group
Healthcare →
Lorenia posted a funny video about the United States health care system being ranked #37. I briefly looked at The world health report 2000 – Health systems: improving performance. It is a…
TED: Stroke of Insight →
The first couple TED videos I watched didn’t impress me. A few weeks later, I saw this post from Sam about the top 10 TED videos. Sam is one of those people who reserves good for the truly special…
Antibiotic resistance clue found →
US scientists have uncovered a defence mechanism in bacteria that allows them to fend off the threat of antibiotics, raising the hope of making existing drugs more effective.
Online Intimacy →
All too often I follow the breadcrumbs wherever they lead me online. So I stumble across some pretty random stuff. Thus why my RSS reader contains way too much stuff to reasonably read. (That…
Vase →
Vase
Originally uploaded by Ezra F
Eat at Mama’s Boy. The food is better than this picture.
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Humans Have Made, Found or Used Over 50 Million... →
Humans have found or made 50 million different chemicals here on Earth, the vast majority over the last few decades.
At least, that’s how many unique chemicals are now registered in a…
Sit Up Straight! Be Confident! →
· New study finds slouchers make less confident self-evaluations.
At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven…
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SpringBoardMedia: Long tail not so debunked after-all
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5 Web 2.0 Tools for BlackBoard Vista
The Science of Kids
Google Apps for Education Centralized & Pushed →
President Obama challenged today’s students to be as innovative and creative as Google, Facebook, and Twitter with the way each of these tools has changed the way we communicate with each…
Discovery's Rainbow →
Discovery’s Rainbow Credit: NASA, Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)
Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery…
TED Talks: Is Play More Than Fun? →
In the Q&A, Stuart Brown, co-author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the
Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, rejects the idea play is a rehersal for adulthood. Stopping an animal from…
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Cross-domain policy file specification | Adobe Developer Connection
Possible solution to FQDN on Java Applets introduced by Blackboard in Vista 8.
The Ethics of Placebos →
An analysis of over 4000 wines entered in 13 U.S. wine competitions shows little concordance among the venues in awarding Gold medals. … An analysis of the number of Gold medals…
