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1769. Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message
Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
1757. Homeland Security High School Launches In Fall
Joppatowne High School in Harford County, Maryland, is first in the nation to offer a 75-student magnet program centered on HOMELAND SECURITY. The program, called the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Magnet Program, focuses on "preparing high school students for careers in disaster response, high-level computer science and law enforcement" and begins in the fall. Students "will be given limited security clearances to enable them to perform internships at nearby Aberdeen Proving Ground, where the military develops and tests conventional and biological weapons." Selected students will study "public safety, border control, religious ideology, geospatial technology, cybersecurity, and threat identification."
1724. Long Living Neurons
MIT and Harvard Medical School scientists have developed a method to decrease neuron loss rate in mice bearing Alzheimer's disease and ALS analogues. This was achieved by upregulating the gene SIRT1 or by introducing Resveratrol, a SIRT1 activating m...
2021. U.S. study finds potential new ways to fight aging
Harvard Medical School researchers have found that the enzymes controlled by SIRT3 and SIRT4 genes help preserve the cell's mitochondria, which are important for keeping cells healthy and alive when they undergo stress and DNA damage during aging. ...
2105. Computer programs can help make sense of life
Researchers from Microsoft Research Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland suggest using models of complex living systems structured like computer programs, where many "subroutines" run in parallel and produce outputs that depend on each...
2110. Using Neural Signals To Predict Sensory Decisions
International School for Advanced Studies combine high-speed videography with neural recordings from somatosensory cortex to show that it is possible to use firing patterns to predict the decisions of rats as they contact textures in their environmen...
2421. BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong
Stony Stevenson writes "A Panorama programme claiming that Wi-Fi creates three times as much radiation as mobile phone masts was 'misleading', an official BBC complaints ruling has found. The team involved in the research came under fire from the school where the 'investigations' were held for scaremongering, but now the BBC has come out with an official ruling. 'The programme included only one contributor (Professor Repacholi) who disagreed with Sir William, compared with three scientists and a number of other speakers (one of whom was introduced as a former cancer specialist) who seconded his concerns.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2422. Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop
CountryGeek passed us a link to a story in the Birmingham News, saying that schools in the Alabama city will be the first US students to make use of the XO laptop. The piece touches on a bit of the project's history, and seems to indicate the Birmingham school district is ready to make a serious commitment to these devices. "Langford has asked the City Council to approve $7 million for the laptops and a scholarship program that would give Birmingham students with a C average or above a scholarship to college or tech school of their choice. The City Council has not yet approved the funding. The rugged, waterproof computers will be distributed to students on April 15, Langford said, and children will be allowed to take them home. If a computer is lost, the school system can disable it, rendering it useless, Langford said. Students will turn in their computers at the end of their eighth-grade year."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2458. MPAA's University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation (Ryan Paul/Ars Technica)
MPAA's University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation — The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal filesharing on school networks.
Source: Ars Technica
Author: Ryan Paul
Link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071204-mpaas…
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2545. Birmingham, Alabama schools getting 15000 OLPC XOs
Filed under: Laptops
If you (or your kiddo) just happens to be a first through eighth grader in Birmingham, Alabama, you (or your offspring) will soon be playing with an XO during regularly scheduled class time. Mayor Larry Langford has recently announced that a $3 million deal was signed in order to bring in one laptop per child for the aforementioned grades, or 15,000 XOs in total. Apparently, the schools will become the first in the nation to receive heaps of the low-cost lappies, which were sold to the district at $200 a pop. As for logistics, students can expect to receive their machine on April 15, 2008, and while pupils will be allowed to take 'em home, the school system can and will disable any that inexplicably "disappear."
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2592. Old Software or Open Source?
Pakled writes "I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)? Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2595. Stanford researchers produce short-term reversal of skin aging in mice
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have reversed the effects of aging on the skin of mice, at least for a short period, by blocking the action of a single critical protein, NF-kappa-B. After two weeks, the skin of 2-year-ol...
2610. New Form of Cell Death Discovered
Scientists have discovered a novel form of cell death in which cells crawl inside other cells to die. The process, dubbed entosis, may be a method of suppressing tumors, Harvard Medical School researchers say. ...
2616. Researchers Study Gamers to Boost Learning
Indiana University School of Education researchers are studying the decision-making skills of middle school student gamers in an effort to improve education. They found that while traditional education is built around students avoiding failure, gamers use failure as the MAIN SOURCE OF LEARNING. In traditional education, information is provided in advance, and students are to study it in an effort to avoid failure when given tasks, such as homework and tests. Mastering video games, on the other hand, involves trial and error. Players jump right in and start failing right away on tasks, and learn from those failures. Researchers believe education could be improved by giving students tasks they can fail at, but learn from (similar to the Montessori approach to learning).
2724. Oscilloscope turned into Star Wars-playing MAME machine
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming
We've already seen an oscilloscope turned into a clock, but that hack has nothing on this latest one courtesy of Flickr user Moose2000, who took the old school piece of gear and rigged it to run (what else?) MAME. Even better, Moose chose to use the original Vector-iffic Star Wars arcade game to show it off, which no doubt suits the screen better than something like Street Fighter II. Sadly, there's no instructions for putting together your own rig (assuming you have a spare oscilloscope lying around, that is), but you can check out this one in action in the video after the break.
[Via Gadget Lab]
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2830. DoCoMo F801i is the rape whistle of the digital age
So, there has been an increasing problem with kids being snatched on their way to and/or from school in Japan. So, what does DoCoMo think the solution is?
Well they think the solution is to make a phone that can be wirelessly tethered to a bracelet and fill the phone full of security features and market it to kids to make more money. No, lets not make the police do their job, or the parents do theirs, lets just profit more from a phone.
Regardless, the bracelet is wirelessly connected to the phone, if the phone gets too far away, the phone sends a message or calls the parent. Also, if the kid sets it off, the phone can make a defining alarm to help call for help, and if the kid can manage to hold onto the phone, it has tracking built in that can be accessed from the web. Well, I guess it’s a good thing criminals can’t read and won’t remove both the phone and bracelet before taking off, way to go DoCoMo, nice try on saving the kids.
F801i, a new mobile phone for kids! [via akihabranews]
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2834. The Simplistically Chic Felt Laptop Sleeve
If you like simplicity with your gadgets this cute sleeve is just the thing to keep your laptop protected from the elements. Just using wool felt and a wide elastic loop, it is probably the most simple sleeve to make.
Honestly, I expected this to come from Etsy and was equally surprised when I saw the price. I would think with supplies anyone could pick up from the local craft store it would at the very least be below fifty bucks.
However, each bag is being sold for $65-$75 just depending on the size. It is available to fit 13”, 15” or 17” and comes in light green, hot pink, orange and olive. It still isn’t a bad price and it would be great for any woman who needs her laptop for school and work since it could easily switch between your bookbag and briefcase.
Felt Laptop Sleeve [via betterlivingthroughdesign]
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