Blogs for the NC State Community

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...

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

No, not really.  But I did find this Media Matters takedown of the sexism of Newsweek's cover story of Palin quite compelling.   There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, her new book, and her policies, but you don't...

NR 406 NEWS BLOG -- Fall 2009 invasives | Recent Biodiversity News | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By stwarren

19 Nov 2009: Report Courting Controversy with a New View on Exotic Species A number of biologists are challenging the long-held orthodoxy that invasive species are inherently bad. In their contrarian view, many introduced species have proven...

Technology in the 21st Century General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By ddwinslo

     I had not given much thought to having students create and maintain an e-portfolio prior to last week!         There are certainly many benefits to using e-portfolios.  It allows students...

SHRENIK SHAH factorial | General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By ssshah5

I know its difficult to digest when professor writes on board that 0!(zero factorial) is 1 and not zero. I mean definition of factorial states that n!= n(n-1)(n-2)......2*1. So we would always think that 0! should be zero and not 1....But lets see the...

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

Love Sally Quin's snarky take on God's "plan" for Sarah Palin:  In her new book Sarah Palin writes that one summer at Bible Camp she "put my life in my creator's hands and trust Him as I sought my life's path." For Palin, this...

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

Given that I took all 3 of my kids to finally get the H1N1 vaccine yesterday, it's about time I link to this Slate story I've been meaning to.  I think one of the under-reported facets of the flu story is the fact that H1N1 has basically completely...

Jake Goldbas General | Wednesday November 18, 2009 | By jrgoldba

Something that I've done for two years until now is the Windhover Poetry Slam.    I've presented other people's poetry:  Shakespeare's Sonnet "Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain" Rudyard Kipling's "If" e.e....

Caldwell County Agline Livestock | Wednesday November 18, 2009 | By snagy

Below is a list of up coming beef cattle events that will be close to Caldwell County. More details will follow. If you have a specific question about an event listed below please email me at Seth_nagy@ncsu.edu . December 18, 2009, 1 pm ...

The Ministry of Truth crises hunger ignored | General | Wednesday November 18, 2009 | By pdmccaul

In 1842, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published " The Cry of the Children " as a means of highlighting the conditions facing children laborers in Britain. As my English professor pointed out, one of Elizabeth Browning's goals was to remind those in...

The BIO Guru Guru Classifieds | Wednesday November 18, 2009 | By jsander8

Please see the description below and if you qualify (Soph. or Jr.) and are interested, please try to attend (1) of the following: 1.  Nov. 19th, 10 am-11 am - Special Co-op Orientation Session for Biology majors (Soph. and Jr.only) OR 2.  Nov....