There are the four seasons – Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall – but there are also other annual phases that my academic physiology anticipates and experiences. I’m not talking about Oobleck, but rather things like the planning of the intense …
Archive for April 2011
A poor motherless kid and a runaway slave are floating down a mighty river, on the run from the authorities. Huckleberry Finn? Well, sort of. In a 1973 film adaptation of Mark Twain’s best-loved work, Huck and Jim speak Russian throughout,…
Do you have a photograph of a place in Derby? Then upload it to here http://mappingderby.com/, have it geotagged, printed and added to this brilliant, low-fi, photographic map of derby.
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FORMAT needs your help to Map Derby. Throughout FORMAT Festival we will be asking Derby visitors and residents to photograph the city streets under the theme [...]
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From the monthly Hathi update : Print Holdings Database HathiTrust has been working to design and populate a database of information representing the print holdings of all partner institutions. This database will serve a number of important functions: It will…
From the Technology & Learning blog at Inside HigherEd : "…The future of campus computing belongs to the librarians and the libraries, and that is a very good thing. Here is why: Reason 1 – Service Orientation:… Reason 2 -…
Dear HASTAC community,
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Actor Samuel West delivered a speech at the Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) March for the Alternative in London on March 26. West emphasized that the arts should be publicly funded and available to everyone: We believe, don’t we, that art ……
On May 5th, the University of Sheffield will hold a debate on the value of the arts and humanities. Speakers will include professors, policy makers, consultants, and journalists from across the United Kingdom. The event is open to the general … C…
If you are a user of one the mobile AR applications, such as Layar, Junaio, Wikitude, Google Goggles (or any of the many others), and would like to help the (academic) research of augmented reality, boy do Markus Salo and Thomas Olsson have an offer fo…
VANISHED – Middle-schoolers think like real scientists as they race to solve an environmental mystery in the alternate reality game Vanished.
The first in a series of articles.
Scholar Class 2011
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Middle-schoolers think like real scientists as they race to solve an environmental mystery in the alternate reality game “VANISHED”.
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Over the past four years there was a 43 percent increase in prescriptions for antidepressants. Some news outlets attribute this rise to the recession. People more depressed equals more drugs. Ben Goldacre of Bad Science explains why said outlets need to be more careful with their analyses. From what I can tell, all the reports [...]
If you are involved in crowdsourcing, collections or digital projects you are invited to attend a one day conference at Oxford University on 26th May which will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections.
It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC. The conference will be of interest to learning technologists, [...]
The MIT SENSEable City Lab presents five different perspectives of the ebb and flow in Singapore at the Singapore Art Museum. LIVE Singapore! provides people with access to a range of useful real-time information about their city by developing an open platform for the collection, elaboration and distribution of real-time data that reflect urban activity. [...]
I’m not ashamed to admit that part of the fun of playing with data sets is simply the pleasure in looking at rich examples where the ebb and flow of the real world is captured in the data without necessarily…
