The Periodic Table of Videos (5)
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The University of Nottingham created an example for all the educators around the world. They constructed a series of interesting videos focusing on each element of the periodic table. Some videos: Helium: Arsenic: Oxygen: Follow their Youtube channel! What did they need to come up with such a unique project? 5 innovator educators and a video journalist of BBC. That’s how we can change education.
Announcement - ISSGC and GridCast, 6-18 July, Hungary (1)
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Announcement - Grid school shares resources Image courtesy of ICEAGE Grid computing school shares teaching resources through digital library and behind-the-scenes blog Anyone with Internet access can now share all the thrills and spills of the sixth International Summer School on Grid Computing, from 6-18 July in Hungary. The school is training approximately 40 students from 20 countries in the ways of grid computing—a technology that helps scientists tackle complex problems by combining the power ...
Workshop on Many Tasks Computing at SC'08 (2)
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Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, and I are running a Workshop on Many Tasks Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) at SC'08 (Austin, Texas, November 17, 2008). The deadline for submissions is August 15. Our goal in convening this workshop is to encourage discussion among those interested in escaping the "SPMD rut" that characterizes much work in parallel, if not grid, computing. We believe that new applications and more powerful computers are spurring increased interest in ...
Big Think: The Future of Genomics (3)
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Big Think is a new service featuring interviews with famous experts about important topics. Here is a recent interview with Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Assistant Professor at Harvard University who focuses on the future of genomics: Some other interesting talks: The Dilemma of Organ Donation The Human Genome an Imperative Discovery Tool What is the state of global medicine today? Jimmy Wales: What are you thinking about?
WikiProfessional: New Concept for Life Science (4)
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WikiProfessional was officially launched some weeks ago. So I think it’s time to say a few words about it. WikiProfessional is a new kind of a database. It searches in several sources and helps us how to get the most valuable information. Redundancy of the same facts and opinions within a myriad of web-pages has artificially inflated the size of the Internet. To get a million search results on a query without the ability to ...
Ask a Librarian: Online (1)
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Yale University Science Libraries came up with a great idea. From now, you can contact one of their librarians through Meebo, GTalk, AIM, MSN, etc. Here is a screenshot of the widget: Reference service is intended to assist the academic research of students, faculty, and staff of Yale University. If you are not affiliated with Yale, we can reply to your question only if it concerns the University or some unique resource of the University ...
iSGTW Feature - Dan Reed at HealthGrid08 (1)
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Feature - Biomedical informatics: Vision and challenges Dan ReedImage courtesy of Microsoft Corp. Imagine your cell phone ringing at 6:00 a.m.: “Please telecommute today and keep children home from school. We are attempting to contain a sudden and dangerous outbreak of influenza that has already affected 30% of the population within ten miles of (your address).” Dan Reed, a computational scientist known for his leadership in developing technology and science policy, currently director of scalable ...
Epernicus: Where Science Meets (4)
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There are more and more community sites dedicated to scientists, so they have to come up with at least one unique feature that may make them more useful than the other similar services. Here is a good example, Epernicus, that was created by researchers at Harvard and MIT: Epernicus is a professional networking platform for health and life scientists. Our goal is to connect researchers with their real world scientific networks, enabling them to find ...
iSGTW Link of the week - GridCast (1)
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Link of the week – GridCast hooks bloggers at OGF23, 2-6 June, Barcelona Live from the forum, it’s the podcasters. Image courtesy of GridTalk Bloggers are providing a sneak-peek behind the scenes of the 23rd Open Grid Forum, held this week in Barcelona, Spain. They are part of a grid podcast, or GridCast, that allows readers to virtually share in the forum, as if they were really there on-site.Coordinated by the GridTalk project, the GridCast ...
The power of e-patients (2)
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There is a whole blogosphere around the idea of transforming medicine into e-health. There are plenty of bloggers who often write about the IT opportunities of medicine and healthcare. But! What about patients? The consumers? Even if we have a Jay Parkinson, what can he do without patients who are ready to use his service? They are called e-patients, and without them there will be no change in the future of medicine. By taking advantage ...
Semantic search vs Google: In Medicine (2)
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I’ve been playing with Powerset for a while. It seems to be a service that can take us to the world of semantic web or web 3.0. It uses Wikipedia and Freebase as resources. The main idea is to ask questions instead of search for terms. Let’s give it a try. If you make a search for “Who discovered penicillin” in Google, you will see this (Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin) and many more similar articles. ...
Is Blogging Healthy? (2)
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I thought blogging could be dangerous for our health, but now here is an other opinion. As Scientific American reports: Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces ...
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nanog said:
so go to blogging guys!
The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects (11)
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A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph (Figure 1 below) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services. It's eye opening because of the dramatic growth in bandwidth being consumed by their customers via their various non-visual, data-only Web services. The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does ...
Google Health (Personal Health Record) Launches for Everybody Today (1)
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Screenshot of Google HealthGoogle Health is an online service which provides personal health record (PHR). The website is live and anybody can sign in, with a Google account, of course. It looks friendlier and easier to use than the competing offering by Microsoft called Health Vault. See the Google Health tour here.A few excerpts from the "About Google Health" page are listed below:Google Health allows you to store and manage all of your health information ...
Private Journal and Diary (4)
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I love clean and easy to use application that you actually need for a daily work on the web.Penzu is just a really nicely done service written on rails, that allows you to write and save private notes or posts (with images), print the entry, or share it by email.If you're looking for a smooth private blogging service, signup to Penzu. The experience itself, worth the try. Penzu designed like a notebook page, and this ...
Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers (81)
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Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has a Google account and wants to keep it up-to-date or add new articles. The ...
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Piers said:
Very very useful
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Varun Mahajan said:
Awesomesauce
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Bhavesh said:
this is interesting...
looking forward to use it soon...
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Marianne said:
Open shared learning. Nice.
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Nkululeko Masondo said:
Wonderful
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Eunix said:
Советую всем web-разработчикам.
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Charlie said:
This looks like it will be a really useful resource. Good idea, Google.
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griflet said:
Heya, este wiki será uma ferramenta porreira para aprendermos tecnologias web
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Harper said:
Mark is wearing a threadless shirt in the interview. w00t
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Karpuscul said:
Автор книги "Dive in Python", ныне работник Google, рассказывает, что такое Google Doctype.
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Vinicius Braga said:
WOW, mais um Wiki com dicas, pelo menos do que eu já lí, gostei bastante. É meio confuso, mas deve ser Beta!! ;)
Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites (12)
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It wasn't long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly. The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don't blog today, despite the enormous influence that blogging and other forms of social media continue to have. One reason is that blogging takes time and takes some skill, both in writing ...
Writing from GlobusWorld/OSGC in Oakland (2)
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I am attending this week the Open Source Grid and Cluster conference in Oakland, California. This event includes GlobusWorld, Sun Grid Engine workshop, and Rocks workshop, as well as tracks on other open source grid and cluster software. As an organizing committee member, it is always a little nervewracking ahead of a meeting, wondering how it will work. We're now in the third day and I am please to say that the meeting is going ...
