Monday, September 26, 2005

Evolution Lawsuit Opens in Pennsylvania. Intelligent design is not science, a prominent biologist testified in the legal battle over teaching the design theory as an alternative to evolution. By LAURIE GOODSTEIN. [NYT > Education] 10:01:56 PM      Google It!.

Peru Passes Free Software Law. [Slashdot] 7:05:40 PM      Google It!.

Bad Reporting, Not Email, Worse Than Marijuana. [Slashdot] 7:04:17 PM      Google It!.

Wonks find death sentence, lynching connection. States that sentence the most criminals to death also tend to be the states that had the most lynchings in the past, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the number of death sentences for all criminals – Black and white – were higher in states with a history of lynchings. But the link was even stronger when only Black death sentences were analyzed. [Science Blog -] 12:26:34 PM      Google It!.

A Woman's Place Is on Top. Mountaineer and scientist Arlene Blum clambered over some outdated attitudes to become one of the top women climbers in the world. She discusses her new memoir with Wired News. By John Gartner. PLUS: An excerpt from Breaking Trail [Wired News] 12:03:42 PM      Google It!.

LMS Survey - Total Cost of Ownership - Learning Business. Would you like to know how the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your organization's Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Content Management System (LCMS) compares with the TCO of other organizations? The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Inst [Online Learning Update] 12:01:02 PM      Google It!.

Cross Relationships between Cognitive Styles and Learner Variables in Online Learning Environment - Eunjoo Oh and Doohun Lim, JIOL. This study examines how students’ cognitive styles are correlated with their attitudes toward online education and learning behaviors in online learning environments. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and the attitude survey toward online instruction [Online Learning Update] 11:59:52 AM      Google It!.

A channel changer for the Bloglines river of news. Blog readers offer two basic navigational styles. There's the two- or three-pane format that's also commonly used in mail clients, and then there's what Dave Winer has called the river of news format, where everything appears in one scrollable view. I favor the latter for the reasons Dave cites: To me, this more approximates the way I read a print newspaper, actually it's the way I wish I could read a print newspaper -- instead of having to go to the stories, they come to me. This makes it easier for me to use my brain's powerful scanning mechanism. So I use Bloglines in "river of news" mode, which is invoked by the doLoadAll function that's attached to the n Updated Feeds link. You can make this the default using a simple Greasemonkey script from Mark Pilgrim, by the way. But note that if you do, an instance of Bloglines left running in one browser will consume all unread items, and leave none for another instance running elsewhere. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:58:54 AM      Google It!.

Words 'can change what we smell'. Labelling an unpleasant smell with a more appealing name can improve its aroma, say scientists. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 11:56:53 AM      Google It!.

China set for second space shot. China's second manned mission into orbit will blast off on 13 October at the earliest, Chinese news sources claimed on Monday. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 11:56:21 AM      Google It!.

Jakob Nielsen: The Power of Defaults. [Scripting News] 11:54:06 AM      Google It!.