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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
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Don't leave it to the scientists
A nurse puts discussion board miscreants on notice about their lousy attitude toward non-scientists discussing science.
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Oh, that's how you do a science fair project!
Need to intro a spring science fair to your students? Here's one by a high school senior that will do the trick nicely.
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Science (plus anti-porn) bill gets majority vote, but is defeated anyway
Politics is very weird and parliamentary procedure is enough to make you crazy.
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Breaking news: House Science & Technology Committee reintroduces science bill, with porn ban intact
I want to point out that your voices are being heard. Washington politicos are reading your comments.
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A psychological contagion of myth and suspicion
The source of this irrational fear won't be found in Mexico, or China. It doesn't come from the Third World. It comes from among us, from people and institutions right here in America. Fighting it...
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Royal Society papers provide science, history resources
The 350th anniversary of Britain's Royal Society (making it the world's oldest scientific institution) will be marked by the release of a vast library of papers online from the likes of Sir Isacc...
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Can Obama make science cool?
On Monday, I wrote about the decline of science education in the US, as well the rise of "unscience" and our growing struggle to compete with China in terms of real innovation. As if he wanted to...
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A British look at global warming denial
And this examination takes us back to the Norsemen and their settlements in Newfoundland and Greenland. And that pesky issue of the Medaeval Warming. And the semantics and geography of...
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Science being abandoned as traditional media reduce staff?
Here's an opinon piece arguing that scientists themselves must get involved in getting the information and research results to the public. And the authors have some unflattering comments about...
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Science v. public opinion
Is it a surprise that American public opinion and scientific opinion are often at great variance? The findings of a recent Pew survey show Americans are not in agreement with American science....
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Bill Gates - the science guy
In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system, in his first year away from Microsoft Bill Gates has managed to fulfill a dream of taking some classic...
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Applied science prevents disaster
A series of volcanic eruptions in Alaska were foreseen and no humans were hurt. They are fascinating but were not a surprise. In many parts of the world we have evolved beyond Pompeii. With...
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Tinkering around at TechFest 2009
At TechFest, Microsoft stages a science fair to show its "other" projects such as using still images to create a 3D effect, creating higher level cell phone video streams, and using mobile sticky...
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"Science:" a fighting word in 2009
Science has suddenly come out of the political closet where it weas confined during much of the Bush Admninistration and battles over its role and worth are becoming at least visible. There's been...
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Creation in science classes? Maybe...
Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education for the Royal Society, seriously irritated most of his fellow Royal Society members and a good chunk of the scientific community by posting a blog...
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UK educator: Teach creationism
So this is the state of science education? I just don't know what to think anymore. The Times of London reports that Britain's director of education at the Royal Society says creationism should...
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Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?
So says my oldest nonchalantly as he go in the car yesterday. He was, of course, referring to the Large Hadron Collider that just conducted its first successful test, firing a stream of particles...
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LHC and Faith-Based Science
Public reaction to the Large Hadron Collider is so ignorant and brain-dead we need a theory to explain what's going on. I asked Charles King at Pund-IT for a theory. He offered this: I believe...
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Tech camp for kids
Some kids prefer video games and computer programming to sports and nature, and the ID Tech Camps were created with that set in mind. CNET's Kara Tsuboi drops in on a summer session at Stanford...
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Got science?
It seems there are numerous American scientists who feel bereft. I can relate, because I am related. I have two brothers who are physicists, like our father before them. My father drove a...
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