Blogs for the NC State Community

World English(es) General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By aeland

Your article on the widespread rise of authorship is very interesting, as is the data you present regarding publishing across the centuries. Unarguably, it is amazing to realize the impact that the internet and social networking sites have on the transfer of...

World English(es) General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By depeters

If this argument holds water, it holds it from its own contorted definition of publishing.  As scholars, we know publication to be something much more active than simply a basic readership of a hundred people.  Maybe - and just maybe - everyone will...

Crisis! General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By lkmurph3

The House ethics committee (OCE) is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice...

World English(es) General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By anfaber

While your article presents an interesting concept, I must say that, in my opinion, your predictions are simply NOT going to happen, at least in the time span that you are proposing.  "Everyone" in the world publishing by 2013? ...

World English(es) General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By jdlomeli

Professors, I hate to break it to you, but I believe there is a slim chance that your predictions will prove to be correct. You hypothesize that every person will publish by the year 2013. One-hundred percent participation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

Jake Goldbas General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By jrgoldba

Maybe one of the most fun parts of the College experience is this one:  finishing.   Everyone knows this, to some extent.  There's this event that occurs like sky diving or bungee-jumping.  We College seniors fall off of the Edge of the...

World English(es) General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By swatson

Undoubtedly, the world has witnessed a huge increase in authorship.  As technology becomes more advanced, people are more equipped with the ability to communicate.  It wasn't even 30 years ago that cell phones were basically nonexistent.  Now,...

First Politics, Then Life General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By mgbaker

Congratulations to the sixty Democratic Senators who voted to allow the health care debate to continue last night. Each Democrat, with no Republican support, voted aye for the bill, including some of the staunch centrists who threatened to filibuster weeks...

21st Century as I See It General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By mpcook

As I write this, I am in Philadelphia at the NCTE National Convention.  For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is the National Council of Teachers of English and is the largest professional organization for English teachers in the country.  Relax,...

CSC 216 Online Information | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By jep

When we created Card class, we used the following numbering scheme for suits:   0 = clubs, 1 = diamonds,  2 = hearts, 3 = spades

21stCenturyTechnology General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By trbounds

According to Broda and Baxter in Using GIS and GPS Technology as an Instructional Tool , GIS or Geographic Information Systems will allow you to store, retrieve, manipulate and display geographic data. In a GIS, the data can be “layered” allowing...

Crisis! General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By cwu6

It has been two weeks after the Fort Hood tragedy which costs the life of 13 people. Such crisis is extremely salient given the general social, political fact that (1) President Obama is expected to make a long-awaited announcement on his Afghan war strategy...

SHRENIK SHAH quotations | General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By ssshah5

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened." "O ur greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." " When ...

Fully Myelinated General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By shgreene

For some reason, I feel like combining the following: 1) From Matt Yglesias , a nice graph showing how the Murder rate in the US is much higher than most comparable nations: He's got a nice explanation for Finland, "What's up with Finland? I...

World English(es) General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By menovak

To: Bell and Hawkland, Inc From:   CONTACT _Con-3CD6DBDB1 \c \s \l Margaux Novak Subject: Le Debonnaire Marketing Strategy   First, we would like to compliment you on the success your product has been met in the...

COM547: Mobile Technologies Maurice Mathis | Friday November 20, 2009 | By mamathi2

This article (Silva et al) is a qualitative study examining the appropriation and social uses of the cell phone in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro.  My first reaction to the article was the "unofficial" recognition of people in the...

Jake Goldbas General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By jrgoldba

I've already written a little bit about the DH Hill library, which according to a rogue statistic (I can't tell you where I got it, but it's probably somewhere posted in Public records) has seen a 40% increase in students coming here in the last year.  ...

Jake Goldbas General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By jrgoldba

Windhover Poetry Slam is on Sunday November 22 7:00 at Caldwell Hall Lounge  Hillel Thanksgiving is Tomorrow night Friday November 20 at 7:00PM bring a dish

Blithering Blithely General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2

According to a series of new studies recently released, air pollutants such as carbon, particulate matter, and ozone can cause drops in ability to process and learn new vocabulary, reaction time, and even overall intelligence.  The study suggests 5 year...

Blithering Blithely General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2

To everybody anxiously awaiting my next blog installment: Remember a previous post about the Spirit rover becoming mired down in some soft soil on Mars?  Well, apparently NASA read my previous post and found it apt to respond by trying to remove the...

Blithering Blithely General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2

One popular area of scientific research recently has been working on making technologies compatible with the human body.  My latest blog entry, and an interesting example of this phenomenon, are biodegradable transistors.  As a student of electronics...

My Blog ... General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By rmlundin

Wow ... have we learned a lot!  For my final project I created an example classroom website.  (http://finalproject509.shutterfly.com/)  I had a lot of fun learning how to create a website and working out the many many kinks that came with this...

Will's blog on STS 302h General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By wmlaundo

Recently there was an article in the Scientific American talking about a possible radical change in how the world does agriculture. As population continues to grow, the world is going to need more food and more farmland. Unfortunately there isn't enough arable...

Fully Myelinated Politics | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By shgreene

Via TPM : The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it... The poll asked this...