The British Library, videogame festival GameCity and software company Crytek, recently launched the “Off The Map” competition, where participants would have to turn historic maps and engravings into a 3D environment using Crytek's CRYENGINE software. Contestants could elect to depict Stonehenge, the Pyramids at Giza, or the Tower of London. Six second-year students from De Montfort...
read moreIn its short existence, No Child Left Behind, which was voted into existence in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion, accomplished a lot. Girls and boys achieved parity in math for the first time in history, test scores for minorities went up across the board - but it had to die.It mostly had to die because a Republican had signed it and President Obama, the successor to President Bush, dutifully...
read moreProducing research that is accessible, highly-cited, globally visible and impactful is no easy task. Aside from being quality research, it requires multiple other skill sets and competition is fierce.There are over 3 million research articles written each year and even with pay-to-publish and 'light review' open access journals, only half will show up in international journals.
read moreIn the first decade of the 21st century, blogging really took off. In America, it was embraced by the technologically progressive left and therefore immediately exploited as a marketing tool against the right. read...
read moreKnow how many scientists got started wondering about nature by blasting ants with a magnifying glass?Quite a few, actually. While most scientists and engineers don't necessarily like Sid in "Toy Story", they confess to being a lot like him, Frankenstein-ing together toys and hooking things up to firecrackers and such.With that in mind, The Backyard Brains company has created an app intended to...
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