Today I learned,
Stanford offers free courses online in probability and programming. by OpenClassroom: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design Learn the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and design thinking, with an emphasis on mobile web applications. Web Applications Learn how to develop web applications. Topics include markup languages, scripting languages, network protocols, interactive graphics, event-driven programming, and databases, and how … Read more
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Pigeons can recognize the faces that mistreat them. by Eureka Alert: New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes. Researchers, who will be presenting their work at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Glasgow on Sunday the 3rd of July, … Read more
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‘Super sand’ better to purify of drinking water. by Physorg: Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand — a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world — into a “super sand” with five times the filtering capacity of regular sand. The new material could be a low-cost boon for … Read more
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Deepest-living land animal found. by BBC: Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth’s crust. The find has surprised scientists who, until now, believed only single-celled bacteria thrived at these depths. Writing in the journal Nature, the team says this … Read more
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Anthropologists discover primate species fossil in West Texas. by Physorg: Physical anthropologist Chris Kirk has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil primate, Mescalerolemur horneri, in the Devil’s Graveyard badlands of West Texas. Mescalerolemur lived during the Eocene Epoch about 43 million years ago, and would have most closely resembled a small present-day lemur. Mescalerolemuris a … Read more
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E-Commerce and small businesses (infographic). The only way America can recover is if small business sales pick up. From the infographic above, consumers are continuing to turn online for products and services (i.e Groupon). If small businesses owners want to see any improvement with business, creating a website could be crucial in their business success. Numbers … Read more
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Scientists produced ferroelectric ice into an electric field. by PhysOrg: In a new study, a team of chemists has developed a new method for synthesizing a type of ferroelectric ice, which is crystallized so that all of its bonds line up in the same direction, producing a large electric field. The researchers, including Hai-Xia Zhao, … Read more
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UCLA accidentally finds potential cure for baldness. by CBS: In a study between UCLA and the Veterans Association, researchers were looking at the connection between stress and the digestive system with a new medication when they discovered the drug had beneficial side effects that treated baldness. The scientists were conducting research on lab mice that … Read more
Today I learned… about California’s execution system.
A look inside California’s ‘Death Row’. by GOOD.is: San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest correctional facility and has the state’s only gas chamber and death row for male inmates. Five years ago, the facilities at San Quentin were deemed too small, cramped, and poorly lit to ensure humane executions, so San Jose federal judge … Read more
Droppin’ Knowledge
Majority of Republicans, Independents and Democrats oppose eliminating EPA. by GOOD.is: We created this chart out of the ORC International survey data, and we’ve paraphrased the wording of the questions for clarity. Here are the original survey results (PDF). But according to this survey, 61 percent of Republicans oppose eliminating the EPA. And even within … Read more
