Today is: 11 March, 2010

education

On board Germany's Science Express (BBC Video)

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Germany is using a specially modified exhibition train to showcase science and get young people across the country interested in science.

Educate yourself

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Don't know much about geography? Physics? Nanotech? There are a number of really good video and audio resources available. Try the Research Channel, the Royal Society, Open Source Physics, everything you wanted to know about economics, the dismal science or it's cousin, political science... Then there is MIT World, Carnegie Mellon's open source learning initiative, Connexions, Vega, and the Princeton collection. Wikiuniversity is always interesting, Berkeley does a mean podcast, and the Edge video library is always, well, cutting edge. Stanford has the iTunes connection, and Fathom is a wide ranging site. Do you have a great resource? Share it in the comments section below.

Within five years, observers believe, 90 percent of all of the world's scientists and engineers will live in Asia.

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In writing his books on World War II, Winston Churchill entitled the first The Gathering Storm. It was obvious in the 1930s, he said, that threats were rapidly building in Nazi Germany; yet the political leaders in Britain and France looked away, drifting into the future. One day, it was too late. Will history now repeat itself in America?

Baroness Greenfield Asks: Is Technology Changing Our Brains?

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Greenfield, a member of the UK's House of Lords, asked the government today if it's education policies were taking into account the possibility that technology is changing the way our brains work. The link goes to the full transcript of her speech; whether or not you agree with everything she says, Greenfield raises some interesting questions.

It's also an interesting comment on modern society that a baroness can speak to issues involving nanotechnology.

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