Friday, February 29, 2008

eol.org - Ambitious project of Organizing, Storing and Maintaining all information about life on Earth.



"Who We Are


The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The entry-point for each site is a species page suitable for the general public, but with several linked pages aimed at more specialized users. The sites sparkle with text and images that are enticing to everyone, as well as providing deep links to specific data.

 

The EOL dynamically synthesizes biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being, and distribute this information through the Internet. It serves as a primary resource for a wide audience that includes scientists, natural resource managers, conservationists, teachers, and students around the world. We believe that the EOL's encompassing scope and innovation will have a major global impact in facilitating biodiversity research, conservation, and education.

 

The EOL staff is made up of scientists and non-scientists working from museums and research institutions around the world. We currently have 20 full time employees, but as this project grows, so will the EOL family."


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m-w.com - impromptu : improvised


impromptu   \im-PROMP-too\   adjective
        1 : made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised
   

Example sentence:
         When we dropped by unexpectedly, Aunt Dinah threw together an impromptu dinner from the odds and ends in her refrigerator.

Did you know?
         If you think that "impromptu" looks like a relative of "prompt," you're right; both are ultimately derived from the Latin "promere," meaning "to bring forth, take out." "Impromptu" was borrowed from French, where it meant "extemporaneously," but French speakers picked it up from the Latin phrase "in promptu," a "promere" descendant meaning "in readiness" or "at hand." There is also another, much rarer descendant of "promere" in English -- the noun "promptuary," meaning "a book of ready reference."

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

pbs.org - Some Selected Documentaries


Fastest Glacier

Fastest Glacier (Jul. 2005)

A glacier moving way too fast reveals how unpredictable the effects of global warming can be. Watch now (7 mins.)



CERN

CERN (Jul. 2007)

Beneath the Alps, the mother of all particle accelerators nears completion. Watch now (12 mins.)



Island of Stability

Island of Stability (Oct. 2006)

Follow the decades-long quest to create the elusive element 114. Watch now (13 mins.)



The Elegant Universe

The Elegant Universe (Oct. 2003)

Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory. Watch now (146 mins.)



Profile: Cynthia Breazeal

Profile: Cynthia Breazeal (Nov. 2006)

A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do. Watch now (13 mins.)


Profile: Karl Iagnemma

Profile: Karl Iagnemma (Oct. 2006)

An innovative MIT roboticist is also an acclaimed fiction writer. Watch now (10 mins.)



Monster of the Milky Way

Monster of the Milky Way (Oct. 2006)

Does a supermassive black hole lurk at the center of our galaxy? Watch now (48 mins.)


Origins: Back to the Beginning

Origins: Back to the Beginning (Sep. 2004)

How did the colossal forces of the early universe make it possible for habitable worlds to emerge? Watch now (50 mins.)



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education-portal.com - 7 Universities and Websites Offering Free Business Entrepreneurship Courses Online


Approximately 10 million entrepreneurs think about starting a business in the U.S. every year. Only 3 million of them actually do it. Be one of the 3 million with these free online business entrepreneurship courses.

entrepreneurship

1. MIT- Sloan School of Management (mit.edu)

The Sloan School of Management provides access to hundreds of free business courses online, many of which would be beneficial to entrepreneurs. Course materials include text, video, audio and many other multimedia elements.

2. Carnegie Mellon (cmu.edu)

The Entrepreneurship and Business Planning Course taught by Carnegie Mellon Professor Mark Juliano is a great course for new entrepreneurs. Course materials include lectures, PowerPoint slides, a class blog and handouts. You can also get audio versions of the lectures for your mobile device.

3. U.S. Small Business Administration (sba.gov)

The U.S. Small Business Administration offers several courses on starting a small business. The self-paced courses take about 30 minutes to complete. You'll be asked to submit a brief online registration before starting each course, but you can skip it by clicking the submit button at the bottom of the form and then clicking the 'proceed to training course' link.

4. Trump University (trumpuniversity.com)

Trump University has many different courses for aspiring entrepreneurs. Only two of them are free, but they are both worth the time. Additional resources on the site include articles, live training and the Trump Blog.

5. Business Week (bwcourses.com)

Business Week offers a huge collection of free, instructor-led business courses online. You have to be a registered Business Week user to take advantage, but registration is quick and free. Not every course is available immediately. However, you can easily find out when the next session starts by choosing your course and submitting your email address.

6. Kutztown University - Small Business Development Center (kutztownsbdc.org)

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of Kutztown University has one of the largest collections of free business entrepreneurship courses on the web. Topics range from accounting and finance to leadership and management; courses take between 30 minutes and three hours to complete.

7. My Own Business (myownbusiness.com)

My Own Business, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping new businesses succeed. Their free Internet course consists of 14 sessions and is designed for entrepreneurs who want to learn the basics of starting a new business. Supplemental materials include a newsletter, video clips, templates and other useful items.

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m-w.com - Poltergeist: a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises (as rappings)


poltergeist \POL-ter-ghyste\  • noun
: a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises (as rappings)

Example sentence:
They had trouble selling the house because it was rumored to have been inhabited by a poltergeist.

Did you know?
One of the tricks a poltergeist is known for is making "knocking" noises, so it will come as no surprise to learn that the word "poltergeist" translates literally from German as "knocking spirit." The German verb "poltern" means "to knock," and "Geist" is the German word for "spirit." Another "Geist" descendant in English is "zeitgeist" ("the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era"). The English word "ghost" is also related; it descends from the same ancient root that led to "Geist." Although "ghost" has been used in English since before the 12th century, "poltergeist" is a relative newcomer, first appearing as an English word in the middle of the 19th century.


Tuesday, February 26, 2008

flocabulary.com - This site presents a Fun way of Learning. Included in the post are which directs you to what this site and products are all about. Don't bother visiting I mean click on the link and visit


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Monday, February 25, 2008

education-portal.com - 5 Universities Offering Free Engineering Courses Online

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

MIT offers hundreds of free engineering course at the undergraduate and graduate level. Courses cover every type of engineering topic imaginable, including biological engineering, chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and nuclear science engineering.

Delft University of Technology (tudelft.nl)

Delft University of Technology, the largest engineering school in the Netherlands, makes several free engineering courses available online. Most of the courses currently available focus on offshore engineering, computer engineering and bioengineering, but new courses are planned for the future. Although the courses are free, Delft faculty make sure the content in comprehensive to enhance the self-learning experience.

Utah State University (usu.edu)

Utah State University provides an excellent selection of free engineering courses through their OpenCourseWare program. Most of the courses deal with biological and irrigation engineering, civil engineering and environmental engineering, electrical engineering and computer engineering. Course materials consist of multimedia elements, such as text and images.

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley.edu)

UC Berkeley makes select engineering courses available online each semester. Offering include courses and labs in bioengineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and general engineering. Most courses can be downloaded as an mp3 file or viewed with RealPlayer.

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

At this time, Carnegie Mellon University only offers one free engineering course through their Open Learning Initiative. But it is a very good course for anyone interested in civil or mechanical engineering. Modules are comprehensive and updated frequently.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

wordsweep.com - Contumely: harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt


contumely   \kahn-TOO-muh-lee\   noun
  : harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt; also : an instance of such language or treatment

Example sentence:
         Early in his career, the pioneering scientist's colleagues heaped contumely on him for his unconventional ideas, which were eventually proven to be correct.

Did you know?
        Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about the sin of "contumelie," as it was spelled in Middle English, back in the late 1300s. We borrowed the word from Middle French (whence it had earlier arrived from Latin "contumelia"), and it has since seen wide literary use. Perhaps its most famous occurrence is in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy: "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely...." That's not to say the word has no place today. This past September, for example, political columnist Mona Charen expressed the opinion that President Bush has not only been criticized by those on the left of the political spectrum, but "has also suffered the contumely of some on the right and of seemingly everyone in the center."

Monday, February 18, 2008

Education-Portal.com - 10 Sources for Free Online Technology Courses

 communications and energy production to transportation. If you feel overwhelmed, check out some of these free online courses to build your technological savvy.

The days are gone when our only tools were spears, fishing poles and stone knives. Nowadays, technology dominates everything from communications and energy production to transportation. If you feel overwhelmed, check out some of these free online courses to build your technological savvy.


Ten Places to Find Free Technology Courses Online

1. The Open University, UK (open.ac.uk)



Britain's Open University offers a wide variety of courses in technological matters. These classes include easy-to-follow text lectures and as many as 75 different pages featuring text, pictures, illustrations and interactive exercises. Email registration gains you access to student forums and formal quizzes.

2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)



MIT's storied OpenCourseWare courses are based primarily on lecture notes in PDF format. Some courses include assignments and exams, while all boast an extensive reading list. Each course also provides the option to download materials for offline use.

3. Stanford University iTunes (stanford.edu)



Stanford University offers a series of free lectures on technology through their Stanford iTunes project. Specific subjects include sensing technologies, the Facebook phenomenon, computer gaming and software development. Both audio and video files are offered. To take advantage of these classes you'll need the iTunes software, which is available for free here.

4. UC-Berkely iTunes (berkeley.edu)



These courses are in-depth introductions to some of the hottest topics in contemporary technology. They aren't for the time-strapped though; some courses include as many as 62 separate tracks, each of which may be up to an hour long.

5. Utah State University (usu.edu)



These free online courses offered by Utah State University include PDF slides, lecture notes and cool outside links to sites about bizarre boiling, surface tension and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy. The notes and assignments can be very technical, so these courses aren't for beginners.

6. The Digital Education Network (actden.com)



This cartoon-led course uses a variety of colorful characters and animations to introduce users to such modern necessities as operating systems, the Internet and Windows NT. This Microsoft-geared tutorial is for absolute neophytes, but there's hardly a friendlier introduction around.

7. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)



This free online course from Carnegie Mellon University includes modules on subjects such as contacting bodies, force vectors and multi-force interactions. A registration option is offered that allows students to save their work. Several modules include interactive exercises so stimulating they're almost addictive.

8. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)



Rather than giving a technical overview into a specific technology, this interesting course examines the broad-scale effects of technology on society. Subjects examined include politics, power, the history of technology and sustainability. Expect to be faced with such unusual questions as 'Did hunter-gatherers live better lives than we do?'

9. The Tokyo Institute of Technology (titech.ac.jp)



These graduate-level courses are not for the faint of heart - students should already be familiar with terms like Fourier coefficient, vanishing derivatives and Chebyshev polynomial. The PDF-format lecture notes include colorful yet dense diagrams, and some courses feature actual tests.

10. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (tudelft.nl)



These videos are of lectures at Delft Technical University and are aimed at students with substantial prior knowledge. No registration is required. Each course includes handy course summaries, PDF course introductions and video components.

 
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Education-Portal.com - 8 Colleges and Universities Offering Free Accounting Courses Online


Looking to gain or expand your knowledge of accounting? Here's a list of colleges and universities that offer free, high quality accounting courses online.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)



The MIT OpenCourseWare project makes graduate level accounting courses from the MIT Sloan School of Management available to everyone. Online courses consist of PDF lecture notes, reading lists and in some cases, quizzes and examinations. No registration is required.

2. Open University of the UK (open.ac.uk)



Britain's Open University is dedicated to providing a high quality university education that is free for everyone. There are several accounting courses offered through the project. All are comprehensive and easily accessible from the site. No registration is required.

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)



Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative provides everyone with free access to online course books used in Carnegie Mellon's Micro Economics course. Course books include text, graphing applets, tests, computer tutors and virtual online experiments. Registration is not required, but is recommended if you want to save your work as you progress through the course.

4. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)



Kutztown University's Small Business Development Center offers four different free accounting courses online. Courses range from intermediate to advanced and include audio stream, high end graphics and interactive case studies. Registration is required, but there is no charge.

5. University of Alaska - College of Business and Public Policy (scob.alaska.edu)



Dr. Fred Barbee's Principles of Financial Accounting Course is an introduction to financial accounting concepts and principles. The course is free for everyone and includes access to homework assignments, practice exams, PowerPoint slides, learning games and other course materials. No registration is required.

6. University of California- Irvine (uci.edu)



The University of California-Irvine offers one free course that may be of interest to aspiring accountants who want to learn the basics of financial planning. The comprehensive text-based course is accessible through the school's website. No registration is required.

7. Gresham College (gresham.ac.uk)



Britain's Gresham College is well known for the free public lectures the school's professors give in London. Thousands of these lectures are now available online in streaming audio and video. RealPlayer is necessary to play most of the free accounting lectures. Registration is not required.

8. Wikibooks (wikibooks.org)



Wikibooks isn't a traditional university per se, but it is an educational resource worth checking out. The Wikimedia community has a huge textbook collection that is free to everyone. The accountancy collection is a great place for beginners to start. No registration is required.

Education-Portal.com - Universities With the Best Free Online Courses


No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)



If you are looking for a wide range of free courses offered online, MIT is your best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number of different languages. Students all over the world use OpenCourseWare and 96 percent of visitors to this site say they would recommend it to someone else.

2. Open University (open.ac.uk)



The Open University is the UK's largest academic institution. The school's OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)



Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.

4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)



Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are sorted by school (i.e. School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, etc.) and include assignments, lecture notes and other supplementary materials.

5. Stanford (stanford.edu)



Stanford University, one of the world's leading academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it here for free.

6. University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)



UC Berkley has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of UC Berkley courses, both current and archived, are now available as podcasts and webcasts. Courses cover a range of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.

7. Utah State University (usu.edu)



Utah State University also provides access to free online courses. Study options include everything from anthropology to physics and theatre arts. These comprehensive text-based courses can be downloaded as zip files or viewed directly on the site.

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)



Kutztown University's Small Business Development Center offers the largest collection of free business courses available on the web. Course topics include accounting, finance, government, business law, marketing and sales. Comprehensive text, interactive case studies, slides, graphics and streaming audio help to demonstrate the concepts presented in each course.

9. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)



The University of Southern Queensland in Australia provides free online access to a number of different courses through yet another OpenCourseWare initiative. Courses from each of the five faculties are available, covering a broad range of topics, including communication, science, career planning, technology, teaching and multimedia creation.

10. University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)



UC Irvine recently joined the OCW Consortium and began providing free university level courses online. Right now, there are only a handful of options to choose from, but this list is growing. Current courses cover topics like financial planning, human resources, capital markets and e-marketing. Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.





Education-Portal.com - 10 Sources for Free Computer Programming Courses Online


Looking to learn more about computer programming? Here is a list of sites that offer free computer programming courses online.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)



Aspiring computer programmers and current professionals can significantly increase their knowledge through MIT's groundbreaking OpenCourseWare program. All courses are free to everyone and include projects, assignments, lecture slides, supporting documentation, online versions of textbooks and other virtual learning materials. No registration is required.

2. The Open University (open.ac.uk)



Britain's Open University offers a number of free computer programming courses through their OpenLean initiative. Individual courses are designed for intermediate and advanced level users and take from five to 40 hours to complete. No registration is required.

3. Open Educational Resources (oercommons.org)



OER Commons is a teaching and learning network that provides free college-level computer programming courses for everyone. There are thousands of offerings to choose from, all sorted by subject and level. Course materials include text, audio lectures, graphics, activities and labs, assignments and online textbooks. No registration is required.

4. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)



USQ Australia offers sample courses from each of its five faculties. Computer programming courses are split into modules and include examples, lectures, study schedules, reading lists and more. No registration is required.

5. University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)



University of Tokyo's OCW project is a free publication of UT course materials. There are several computer programming courses, as well as lectures and video files that have been translated into English. No registration is required.

6. Korea University (korea.edu)



Korea University recently began sharing education resources through its own OpenCourseWare program. Currently, there are two courses related to computer programming. Both are translated into English and include lecture notes. No registration is required.

7. Wikibooks (wikibooks.org)



Wikibooks is an open-content textbooks collection that is free to everyone. There are dozens of textbooks on computer programming, programming languages and computer science. No registration is required.

8. Land of Code (landofcode.com)



Landofcode.com provides free information on web development. The site features computer programming lessons, tutorials, examples, tests and references that are great for beginners and advanced programmers alike. No registration is required.

9. Web Monkey (webmonkey.com)



Web Monkey is a wonderful resource for web developers. The site has comprehensive computer programming tutorials, cheat sheets, interactive learning tools and much more. Everything is free to use and no registration is required.

10. Free Education on the Internet (free-ed.net)



Free-Ed.Net offers more than 180 online courses that are free to everyone. Right now, there are only a handful of computer programming courses to choose from, but they are worth checking out. Courses are complete, including text, assignments, quizzes and practice activities. No registration is required.

 
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