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  • 2U now offers online MOOC courses from top schools for credit

    2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… Related articles Exploring…

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  • Degreed disrupts college degrees

    Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degree Rip Empson, techcrunch.com There’s a lot of buzz about how new edu­ca­tion plat­forms are mak­ing it easy to acquire the kind of skills that, tra­di­tion­al­ly, have been reserved for the hal­lowed halls of high­er edu­ca­tion. These ser­vices, whether it be Khan Acad­e­my … http://flpbd.it/78Qy4 Related articles We Want…

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  • Microscopic reasons to stop eating fast foods

    An Electron Microscope Reveals The Hidden Horrors Of Processed Foods By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com Photographer Caren Alpert wants you to take a good, hard look at what you eat. One of the most pow­er­ful tools in a sci­en­tist’s arse­nal is the scan­ning elec­tron micro­scope (SEM), which uses a beam of elec­trons to mag­ni­fy a spec­i­men…

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  • People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

    People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry. Black­Ber­ry has been hav­ing a rough go of it late­ly, slow­ly slid­ing into irrel­e­vance as Android and iPhone cor­ner the mar­ket. Now add one… http://flpbd.it/OS1sT Related articles…

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  • Journey: Peaceful, addictive gaming at last

    Journey | Popular Science popsci.com Peaceful, addictive gaming at last. The fastest-selling game in the his­to­ry of the PlaySta­tion Net­work has no sniper rifles, no speed­ing cars, and not a sin­gle word of dia­logue. Jour­ney is sole­ly a piece of inter­ac­tive art. The… http://flpbd.it/5wGEI Related articles Journey: A Popular, Non-Violent Video Game? (enumclaw.com)

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  • Big ass fans: A cool breeze without the noise

    Big Ass Fans Haiku | Popular Science popsci.com A cool breeze without the noise. With its res­i­den­tial Haiku model, Big Ass Fans changed every con­ven­tion estab­lished by a cen­tu­ry of ceiling-fan design. That hot, loud, electromagnet-driven AC motor is now a cool, quiet, per­ma­nent­ly… http://flpbd.it/QWXuw Related articles How to Add Humor to Your Website (zemanta.com)…

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  • Fenix ReadySet: Energy storage, redesigned

    Fenix ReadySet | Popular Science popsci.com Energy storage, redesigned. The ReadySet portable base sta­tion can draw and store ener­gy from a num­ber of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its bat­tery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinet­ic gen­er­a­tor, which can hel… http://flpbd.it/uIyLy Related articles Intelligent plug-and-play energy system charges by sun,…

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  • How to reduce household air pollutants

    Your House Is Killing You. Here’s How To Stop It By Katherine Bagley, popsci.com A roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home Your comfy couch. The wood­en chairs in your kitchen. The paint you spent months pick­ing out. Clean­ing sup­plies piled under the… http://flpbd.it/bmZum Related articles…

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  • Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

    by liseman, instructables.com This Instructable explains how to use a gas sen­sor with your Arduino. This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you pro­gram respons­es to) over­all gas lev­els for a vari­ety of nas­ties, includ­ing ethanol, methane, formalde­hyde, and a bunch o… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk…

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  • Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

    By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Fer­riss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be pub­lished by Ama­zon. With the tra­di­tion­al book­selling out­lets unwill­ing to stock or pub­li­cize the title, pub­lish­er and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles…

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  • The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram

    Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram direct­ed by MIT’s Neil Ger­shen­feld, and based on his rapid pro­to­typ­ing course How to Make (Almost) Any­thing. The Fab Acad­e­my start­ed as an MIT out­reach pro­gram, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your…

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  • New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens

    New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens. admin, 43rumors.com The Hong Kong locat­ed com­pa­ny Jackar Opti­cal just announced a new 34mm f/1.8 Micro Four Thirds lens. The lens has man­u­al and mechan­i­cal smooth focus and aper­ture rings. You can read full specs and more at Snapshooter.jackarlens.com. Image… http://flpbd.it/s0WzN Related articles Olympus OM-D EM-5 | Street Point…

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