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HealthMap | Global health, local information →
global disease alert map
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Climate Wisconsin →
interactive project documenting impacts of climate change across Wisconsin
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Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices :: Map... →
British Library project to “capture the sounds of spoken English all over the world” which involves people reading Mr. Tickle by Roger Hargreaves.
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Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices :: Map... →
British Library project to “capture the sounds of spoken English all over the world” which involves people reading Mr. Tickle by Roger Hargreaves.
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Ivars Peterson's MathTrek: Monopoly Dollars and... →
how to win monopoly with math
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The Rockefeller Foundation on “the future of...
There are also some inherent issues with any foregrounding of a technologized vox populi. The most obvious is that recourse to “crowdsourcing” dovetails all-too-neatly with the neoliberal retreat from governance, in a process thatLaura Forlano forthrightly calls “offloading” (a more felicitous term for what I’ve previously called “responsibilization”). There may well be a thousand points of...
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Scientists wield Wiimote to measure evaporation
In a recent paper in Water Resources Research, a team reports on the use of the Wiimote to measure evaporation. Natural evaporation rates are an important part of the water cycle; estimates of evaporation are required for weather forecasts, flood forecasts, and water resource planning, among other things.  One of the common means of measuring evaporation is simple enough: you set out a pan of...
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“It's [...] very cinematic. The music allows you... →
somethingchanged: iPods and the “intimate, profoundly antisocial relationship, between oneself, one’s music, and one’s earbuds.”
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