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Friday, August 10, 2007
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ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals. The American Council for Education maintains a useful set of pages for academics who work with adult learners. Included at the ACE site is information about Military Evaluation Programs, Government Relations, and Public Policy. (Of course not very many years ago, most students involved in distance education were included in the "adult learner" category, but today distance education is appealing to more and more younger students.) ___JH
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"For more than 60 years, ACE has helped adults gain access to a postsecondary education. We invite you to find out more about our programs and services." [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
7:20:36 PM 
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Google Rolls Out Online Storage Services. An anonymous reader writes "The associated press reports that Google is slated to provide online storage at a price. From the article: 'Web search and Internet services company Google Inc. on Friday began selling expanded online storage, targeted for users with large picture, music or video file collections. The prices range from $20 per year for 6 gigabytes of online storage; $75 per year for 25 gigabytes of storage; $250 per year for 100 gigabytes of storage; and $500 per year for 250 gigabytes of storage.' Is this too expensive for what there offering, or are you going to make use of it?" [Slashdot]
7:16:39 PM
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Making Deaf Ears Hear with Light. A laser-based approach could make cochlear implants, which currently use electrical signals, more effective. [from tech review --
An infrared laser, on the other hand, can be beamed at nerve fibers
with pinpoint accuracy. Furthermore, the directional nature of laser
light means that optical pulses in different places won't interfere
with each other. The increased precision of neural stimulation would
make voices and music sound more natural, and users would be able to
converse in noisy environments more easily.
While it's not yet clear why infrared radiation can trigger activity
in the auditory nerves, Richter hypothesizes that it heats the cells
slightly, opening ion channels in the cell walls and sending an
electrical signal down the length of the neuron. --
... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
7:14:12 AM
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Music DRM in Critical Condition?. ianare writes "Universal Music Group, the largest music company on the planet, has announced that the company is going to sell DRM-free music. The test will see UMG offering a portion of its catalog — primarily its most popular content — sold without DRM between August 21 and January 31 of next year. The format will be MP3, and songs will sell for 99 each, with the bitrate to be determined by the stores in question. RealNetwork's Rhapsody service will offer 256kbps tracks, the company said in a separate statement. January 31 is likely more of a fire escape than an end date. If UMG doesn't like what they're seeing, they'll pull the plug. UMG says that it wants to watch how DRM-free music affects piracy rates." FROM slashdot
7:07:42 AM
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OHSU Turns Mouse into Factory for Human Liver Cells. Oregon Health & Science University researchers have figured out how to turn a mouse into a factory for human liver cells that can be used to test how pharmaceuticals are metabolized. The technique, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, could soon become the gold standard not only for examining drug metabolism in the liver, which helps scientists determine a drug's toxicity, but also can be used as a platform for testing new therapies against infectious diseases that attack the liver, such as hepatitis C and malaria.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
7:06:19 AM
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