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We are reaching a tipping point in biology and medicine. Eventually human tissue will be printed out and installed.

Via Alex Butler

While there is no simple formula for achieving top positions in search results, these tips will help appease both search engines and your site visitors.

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Although Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed dramatic growth in information communications technology (ICT) access since the mid-1990s, there are still gaps in the knowledge around the status and findings from past and ...

Via Joan Tarruell

It's actually quite easy to figure out how to use popular social bookmarking service Pinterest with Bloom's Taxonomy. That is, after you see this guide!

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CyberScience3D™ is 3D interactive science software for learning and exploring Human Anatomy, Botany, Zoology, Earth Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Engineering, and Paleontology

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Entrevista a Gonzalo Zabala. “Lo que hemos visto hasta ahora no es nada. Los cambios en los próximos 50 años serán increíbles”, asegura.

Via Fernando de la Cruz Naranjo Grisales, Nicolás Dominguez

Cray is bringing integrated open source Hadoop Big Data analytics software to its supercomputing platforms.

Via Pierre Levy

The wearable revolution is heading beyond Google Glass, fitness tracking and health monitoring. The future is wearables that conjure up a digital layer in real space to 'augment' reality. Read this article by Dan Farber on CNET News.

Via ThePinkSalmon, Aki Puustinen, Timo Ilomäki

Proyecto de aprendizaje-servicio en el ámbito de Internet y la prevención de riesgos asociados.

Via Maritza Pérez Hdez 

Singularity is near. The natural progression of human evolution with a just little twist — technology. In other words, super intelligence will soon become a part of our daily lives and man will be merged with machine.

Via luiy

 

Customizable objects from plastic dollhouse furniture to medical prosthetics can now be designed and made by almost anyone at the press of a 3D print button, and this rise of "desktop manufacturing" is going to lead to an "explosion of new stuff," predicts Chris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution.

 

"As easy as it is right now to publish a blog post, it is getting nearly that easy to make a physical thing. You don't need skills, you just need an idea," Anderson said during a recent keynote address at the Canada 3.0 digital media conference in Toronto.

 

In the past five years, digital technologies such as 3D modeling software and 3D printers have become cheaper and accessible enough for ordinary people to make prototypes of objects that, until recently, could only be made by those who owned factories or were skilled machinists.

 

"Now, once they have that prototype, they don't need to buy a factory, they can just upload it to a factory in the same way that you upload your ideas to an information factory called YouTube or the Wordpress servers or just the internet," Anderson said.

 

Manufacturing, he added, is "turning into a button in your browser."

 

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Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc

With much of our attention focused the rise of advanced artificial intelligence, few consider the potential for radically amplified human intelligence (IA). It’s an open question as to which will come first, but a technologically boosted brain could be just as powerful — and just as dangerous – as AI.

Via Jean-Philippe BOCQUENET

by Michael A. Wilner

 

"...in what seems to be the first major effort by a university to tailor a massive open online course, or MOOC, specifically to high school students,Brown University is preparing to offer a free online engineering class with the aim of teaching high school students about the merits and challenges of the field.

 

"f the program is truly unprecedented, as Brown’s team has come to believe, it could start a trend of directly advising high school students and their teachers on specific curriculums, motivated in part by the hypercompetitive college admissions process.

 

“The real goal here is to get students interested in engineering to better understand engineering, so that they can make good decisions about what they do in the next step,” said Wendy Drexler, director of online development at Brown. “If they decide that they’re interested in engineering and they want to apply to different engineering schools, we want them to have all the information they need.”

 

"The course is based more on activities and research assignments than on video lectures, in an effort to challenge students to actually build something, Dr. Drexler said. Students will also receive guidance on what types of courses they should look for when applying to colleges.

Via Jim Lerman, michel verstrepen

Our brain’s prefrontal cortex is thought to filter out irrelevant thoughts.  This helps us concentrate better in a chaotic world.   But maybe this isn’t always helpful.  Like when we want to think creatively.

In fact, switching this filter off may actually increase “outside of the box” thinking.

 

 

Via Douglas Eby, Lynnette Van Dyke