Science Education & Policy

Dr. Vernon Grose, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board shares many of my interests, including, but certainly not limited to the TWA Flight 800 disaster. Dr. Grose has recently published his long time coming book, "Science but No ...

Article - Anonymous - Nov 10 2007 - 9:21am

How The Flynn Effect Came To Be

The Flynn Effect is the steady improvement in IQ scores over the last 50 years or so in many places. It was documented by James Flynn, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Otago. Flynn gave a talk at Berkeley recently. I aske ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Oct 30 2007 - 10:16pm

Microsoft Hosts Educators Worldwide To Discuss 21st Century Learning Challenges

HELSINKI, Finland, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Teachers and education leaders gather to discuss how technology can address educational needs, including building global classrooms. HELSINKI, Finland, October 29 /PRNewswire/-- Nearly 500 teachers, school adm ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 2:21am

US GSA Requires Liberty Alliance Interoperability Testing As Public Sector SAML 2.0 Adoption Soars

WASHINGTON, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Open Standards, Proven Interoperability and Increased Security and Privacy Protection Drive SAML 2.0-based eGovernment Applications Worldwide ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 4:26am

ITU And Microsoft Launch Online Platform To Track ICT Development

KIGALI, Rwanda, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Support for ICT infrastructure and capacity building pledged at Connect Africa Summit ITU Global View, a Microsoft Virtual Earth-based online platform to track and help accelerate the implementation of the World ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 5:58am

National Projects CEO First Mid East Representative To Join Earth Council Geneva

GENEVA, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Kuwaiti Musaed Al Saleh Appointed Board Member of Renowned Global Environment Group Vice Chairman and CEO of Kuwait-based National Projects Holding Co (NPHC), Musaed Al Saleh, is the first Middle Eastern representative t ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 5:58am

Platts And IntercontinentalExchange Announce Comprehensive Forward Curve Products For North American Natural Gas And Power Marke

NEW YORK and ATLANTA, October 29 /PRNewswire/-- Platts, a leading energy and commodities information provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), and IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global commodity exchange oper ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 9:06am

UK Research Community Gets Extended Access To ScienceDirect

AMSTERDAM, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Access to Elsevier's Leading Online STM Information Platform Secured for Four More Years Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information and the National e-Journals Initiative ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 10:39am

Platform Computing Acquires Scali Manage Business

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/--- Strategic Acquisition Next Step in Realising Platform's Vision of Offering an Integrated HPC Infrastructure Software Solution Platform Computing announced today it has acquired the Scali Manage business from Massach ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 29 2007 - 11:41am

Gay Former Coach: Study Shows One Third Of American Football Players Had Sex With Men

Cultural mind games or good science? The first openly gay male high school sports coach in the US is now a sociologist in England, where European football rules the sports pages, and has done a study concludng that a lot of former American football players ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2007 - 12:44pm