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Aurora from ISS

Yazan: admin | 11 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Research, Science

While docked and onboard the International Space Station, a STS-123 Endeavour crew member captures the glowing green beauty of the Aurora Borealis March 21, 2008. Looking northward across the Gulf of Alaska, over a low pressure area (cloud vortex), the aurora brightens the night sky. This image was taken on March 21, 2008 at 09:08:46 [...]

Sneaking Out of the House to Build Robots

Yazan: admin | 09 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Research, Science

My favorite story from the whole FIRST Northeastern Regional competition was revealed in the delivery of the “Woodie Flowers” award. Woodie, you see, is the MIT professor who founded FIRST with Dean Kamen of Segway fame, after starting the legendary 2.70 and later 6.270 robotics contests at MIT. In many [...]

Data Visualization for US Politics

Yazan: admin | 05 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Research, Science

With the end of the primary season coming up this summer, I expect a resurgence of the talk about “red and blue states” that dominated the 2004 election as we approach the direct engagement of the Republican and Democratic parties. This morning, I stumbled on a great site by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, [...]

Shuttle and ISS

Yazan: admin | 20 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Research, Science

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Most Children Left Behind

Yazan: admin | 19 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Research, Science

Just last week, I had a chance to hear a presentation by Alfie Kohn, one of the more (in)famous progressive education proponents, on the perils of emphasizing achievement and performance over engagement in a subject. Besides being an enthusiastic and engaging speaker, Alfie made a number of great points that really resonated with me [...]