April 2010
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Credit where credit is due : Article : Nature
FYI. interesting initiative: ORCID > an open ID system for researchers orcid.org > hier kunnen we ook mogelijk onze interesse om mee te doen aan dit initiatief aangeven.http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462825a.html Such an ID system would be needed for a web-wide reputation system: Every researcher has a ORCID Researchers produce ‘scientific contributions’...
Apr 26th
Technology & Education: some quotes →
My second caveat is that we’ve been here many times before. The idea of educational technology as an intellectual forklift truck that can carry us to greater heights has a long pedigree. Here are a series of real quotes, starting over one hundred and fifty years ago with a Mr Josiah Bumstead who, in 1841 said: The inventor or introducer of the blackboard deserves to be...
Apr 19th
Love proposal
:) ————— Forwarded message ————— From: zita oumar <zitaoumar@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM Subject: PICNIC, Hello Dear, Thieme Hennis This is a message from zita oumar (http://www.picnicnetwork.org/person/76645/en) grace_oumar@yahoo.com Hello I read your profile today and it was so good to me.u know that i am...
Apr 15th
GMOs: Is the fuzz justified?
Usually the issues Avaaz sends around for support are self-evident. This one is not. Avaaz has attached some sources to their email, but I would like to add something I heard last week. Maybe people can then form a better opinion instead of blindly following their own opinion. The email, attached below, asks for support to ban Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Please decide for yourself, but...
Apr 14th
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“Philipp Schmidt: We have great potential to be a thinking nation. My impression...”
– Open education | ITWeb
Apr 13th
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Madrid vandaag & gisteren, wat tips voor de Madrid...
Aanrader: Madrid in de lente Net weer een heerlijke dag hier gehad, Madrid is heel erg lekker in de lente. Als je (de lezer) een keertje deze kant op gaat, kan ik het volgende aanraden: Reina Sofia en Thyssen zijn erg complete en leuke musea. Reina Sofia is 20e eeuwse (Spaanse) kunst met oa Dali, Miro en Picasso, maar behalve deze bekende namen is er veel te ontdekken. Het gebouw en de tuin...
Apr 11th
Apr 7th
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Fwd: Opera a/h Spaarne
Il Pirata - Vincenzo Bellini Gualtiero en Ernesto zijn gezworen vijanden. De partij van Ernesto heeft enkele jaren geleden de macht gegrepen. Gualtiero heeft zijn land en zijn geliefde, Imogene, achter moeten laten en is piraat geworden. Ernesto heeft Imogene vervolgens gedwongen met hem te trouwen en ze hebben een zoon samen. Gualtiero wordt ook op zee door het leger van Ernesto op de vlucht...
Apr 7th
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The power of an online petition site
Avaaz is quite a powerful internet petition company. See some results below. ————— Forwarded message ————— From: Ricken Patel - Avaaz.org <avaaz@avaaz.org> Date: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:53 AM Subject: We won! Oceans, elephants, and more Dear friends, Wow! In the last three months, members of the Avaaz network have taken more...
Apr 7th