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Cramster: A Great Looking Community of Math and Science Study Groups
Online study group community Cramster announced today that the company has raised a $3 million investment and after checking out the site, we can see why. This active, full featured
What is the Math Gender Stereotype Doing to Silicon Valley Innovation?
I recently came across University of Wisconsin professor Janet Hyde's research into the gender differences in math performance, which I found fascinating especially since my wife's desire is for our
Mememoir: A Better Wiki For Science
Thanks to successful projects like Wikipedia or Wikitravel, wikis have quickly become a standard tool on the Internet, but in academia, the anonymity often associated with publishing in wikis is
A Watson Victory? This is About a Contest, Not Science
We go into day two of the three-day Jeopardy contest with IBM's Watson tied for first place with Brad Rutter. They each have $5,000. Ken Jennings has $2,000. What does
Help Crowdsource the Galaxies
After Pluto was demoted from planet to minor planet, the keening began. Now, astronomers Duncan Forbes and Pavel Kroupa have decided to crowdsource the definition of a galaxy. Forbes, from
U.S. Department of Energy Asks, Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough for Science?
With cloud computing gaining acceptance in the business world, the U.S. Department of Energy wants to know if cloud computing can also meet the needs of the scientific computing. The
Do Too Many Friend Connections Harm Unique Thinking?
Does having too many friends in online social networks make radical, innovative thinking harder to develop and foster group-think instead? That's the conclusion of one scientist contributing to a recent
OpenStudy Teams Up With MIT OpenCourseWare to Help OCW Users Study Together
As we wrote earlier this month, MIT OpenCourseWare is one of the most popular site for learners to freely access university course materials, with over 70 million visitors to the
Eureka! National Science Foundation's I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business
Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn't pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products
4 Tools for Teaching Kids to Code
In a recent PC Pro article, Professor Steven Furber, developer of the ARM microprocessor, laments the sharp decline in interest in computer science classes in the UK. And although the
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