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CourseSource
CourseSource
We publish articles that are organized around courses in both biological and physics disciplines, and aligned with learning goals established by professional societies representing those disciplines. CourseSource provides authors with the opportunity to publish teaching materials in a high-quality format that documents their scholarly teaching efforts, accomplishments and innovations. To our knowledge, CourseSource is the only online journal that exclusively publishes teaching materials that: Incorporate student-centered, evidence-based pedagogy. Focus on professional society-developed learning goals and objectives. Are organized and formatted to enable replicability and adaptation for other classrooms. Do not require data supporting the efficacy of the specific materials themselves, since they are based on evidence-based practices that are fully supported by research. CourseSource is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Authors retain copyright to their materials, through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
·qubeshub.org·
CourseSource
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
"The only thing to fear is fear itself" was stupid advice. Sure, don't hoard toilet paper – but if policymakers fear fear itself, they'll downplay real dangers to avoid "mass panic". Fear's not the problem, it's how we channel our fear. Fear gives us energy to deal with dangers now, and prepare for dangers later. Honestly, we (Marcel, epidemiologist + Nicky, art/code) are worried. We bet you are, too! That's why we've channelled our fear into making these playable simulations, so that you can channel your fear into understanding: The Last Few Months (epidemiology 101, SEIR model, R & R0) The Next Few Months (lockdowns, contact tracing, masks) The Next Few Years (loss of immunity? no vaccine?) This guide (published May 1st, 2020. click this footnote!→1) is meant to give you hope and fear. To beat COVID-19 in a way that also protects our mental & financial health, we need optimism to create plans, and pessimism to create backup plans. As Gladys Bronwyn Stern once said, “The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” So, buckle in: we're about to experience some turbulence.
·ncase.me·
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com
David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com
David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans. David Hanson merges robotics and art to design life-like, social robots that can mimic human expression and emotion.
·ted.com·
David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com
The science of Godzilla, 2010 : Tetrapod Zoology
The science of Godzilla, 2010 : Tetrapod Zoology
But by posing questions about fictional entities we can still learn stuff, and you may be surprised to learn that Godzilla has, on occasion, been discussed semi-seriously by various biologists and palaeontologists. Ok, that won't surprise you if you already know anything about Godzilla, but what the hey.
·scienceblogs.com·
The science of Godzilla, 2010 : Tetrapod Zoology
Abstract: Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing? - MDPI
Abstract: Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing? - MDPI
After using a blogosphere one year ago, this year microblog channels helped to expand the traditional lecture. Students choose (on a voluntary basis) whether they want to participate in a blogging/microblogging group instead of using conventional methods called Scientific Writer/Scientific Reviewer. This study addresses the question whether this method can change the learning outcome into a more reflective one. Furthermore, peer-reviewing groups judge the quality of essays and blog contributions. In this paper we examine if microblogging can be an appropriate technology for assisting the process. This publication comes to the conclusion that an amazing potential and a new way to work with information is opened when using microblogging. Students seem to be more engaged, reflective and critical in as much as they presented much more personal statements and opinions than years before.
·mdpi.com·
Abstract: Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing? - MDPI
The Symphony of Science - Spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through music
The Symphony of Science - Spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through music
The Symphony of Science is a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music.
·symphonyofscience.com·
The Symphony of Science - Spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through music
Scitable | Learn Science at Nature
Scitable | Learn Science at Nature
A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.
·nature.com·
Scitable | Learn Science at Nature
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. Using the six editions as a guide, we can see the unfolding and clarification of Darwin's ideas as he sought to further develop his theory during his lifetime.
·benfry.com·
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
The Open Dinosaur Project
The Open Dinosaur Project
Hello, and thanks for dropping by at the Open Dinosaur Project. This blog is part of a wider project, in which we hope — with your help — to make some science. We want to put together a paper on the multiple independent transitions from bipedality to quadrupedality in ornithischians, and we want to involve everyone who’s interested in helping out. We’ll get to the details later, but the basic idea is to amass a huge database of measurements of the limb bones of ornithischian dinosaurs, to which we can apply various statistical techniques. Hopefully we’ll figure out how these transitions happened — for example, whether ceratopsians, thyreophorans and ornithopods all made it in the same way or differently.
·opendino.wordpress.com·
The Open Dinosaur Project
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab.
·periodicvideos.com·
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
Climate Wizard
Climate Wizard
ClimateWizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth. The first generation of this web-based program allows the user to choose a state or country and both assess how climate has changed over time and to project what future changes are predicted to occur in a given area. ClimateWizard represents the first time ever the full range of climate history and impacts for a landscape have been brought together in a user-friendly format.
·climatewizard.org·
Climate Wizard
RefSeek
RefSeek
a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
·refseek.com·
RefSeek
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American

Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world. # These characteristics of stories, and our natural affinity toward them, reveal clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of emotion and empathy in the mind. # By studying narrative’s power to influence beliefs, researchers are discovering how we analyze information and accept new ideas.

·sciam.com·
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American
iHOP - Information Hyperlinked over Proteins
iHOP - Information Hyperlinked over Proteins
A network of concurring genes and proteins extends through the scientific literature touching on phenotypes, pathologies and gene function. iHOP provides this network as a natural way of accessing millions of PubMed abstracts. By using genes and proteins as hyperlinks between sentences and abstracts, the information in PubMed can be converted into one navigable resource, bringing all advantages of the internet to scientific literature research. Terms of Use iHOP was developed and created by Robert Hoffmann and is a free service from the academic domain, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Hopefully you will find that iHOP makes things possible which would not be without it. iHOP is free of charge, thus its continuity will depend on the community it was created for.
·ihop-net.org·
iHOP - Information Hyperlinked over Proteins
WikiGenes - Evolutionary Knowledge
WikiGenes - Evolutionary Knowledge
In WikiGenes (http://www.wikigenes.org/), authorship tracking technology enables users to directly identify the source of every word. This was not possible in first generation wikis, although authorship is essential to acknowledge contributors and to appraise the reliability of information. On the basis of clear authorship attribution, users can rate each other, and a self-regulating reputation system can be implemented. This is useful to address quality maintenance and the problem of editing conflicts, which used to depend on slow and theoretically refutable top-down decisions. To facilitate contribution and unambiguous use of scientific language, WikiGenes enables editing of articles in their final layout and citation of scientific terminology and references through integrated database and ontology lookups. All contributions to WikiGenes will be open access.
·wikigenes.org·
WikiGenes - Evolutionary Knowledge