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Rare Gold Coin in Israel

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Culture, Science2, 200-year-old coin, alexandria, andrea berlin, andrew booz, antiquities, donald ariel, egyptian ptolemies, hellenistic age, Iraq, Israel, israel museum, james r wiseman, Jerusalem, john g pedley, kelsey museum, kelsey museum of archaeology, lisa cakmak, ptolemaic egyptian queen, ptolemaic mint, seleucid empire, sharon herbert, sharon webb, tel kedesh, university of michigan, upper galilee

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper.

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Back to School: Are Teachers Equipped to Teach ‘Digital Natives’?

By Guest PostAugust 16, 20101 commentEducation, Technologyanthony salcito, beth simon, bing, digital natives, educators, k–12 students, liveedu, Microsoft, microsoft education, military, onenote, steve kerr, teacher guides, Technology, university of washington

*Many teachers are using Microsoft tools and training to help prepare their students for the future, and are encouraging their peers to embrace using the technology that students are growing up with.*

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 16, 2010 — Educators are preparing to go back to school, and they’re starting to do so with more than pencils and books. The “digital natives” that fill their classrooms are restless, and teachers are altering their curricula to keep those students engaged and prepared for the future. Microsoft wants to help.

Digital natives are people who have had access to digital technology for most of their lives—in other words, most of today’s school children.

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comScore Releases July 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostAugust 16, 2010Technologyamericans, brightroll video network, Comscore, Facebook, Google, hulu, internet users, Microsoft, online video, sites, tremor media video network, video, video ad, Yahoo, YouTube

*Facebook.com Climbs to Third in Online Video Content Ranking with 46 Million Viewers*

RESTON, VA, August 16, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released July 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content during the month for an average of 14.7 hours per viewer.

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Stereotyping has lasting negative impact, says U of T researcher

By Guest PostAugust 16, 20102 commentsCulture, Generaladverse impacts, aggression, april kemick, effects, michael inzlicht, prejudice, psychology, scarborough, self control, stereotyping, university of toronto

*Prejudice has lingering effects, study shows*

Aggression. Over-eating. Inability to focus. Difficulty making rational decisions. New research out of the University of Toronto Scarborough shows prejudice has a lasting negative impact on those who experience it.

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Arctic Rocks Offer New Glimpse of Primitive Earth

By Guest PostAugust 16, 2010Sciencebaffin island, baffin island lavas, baffin island rocks, canadian arctic, carnegie institution, don francis, earth, geochemical evidence, helium-3, helium-4, mantle, matthew jackson, new window, radioactive, reservoir, richard carlson, thorium, uranium

Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth’s violent past. Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that beneath it lies a region of the Earth’s mantle that has largely escaped the billions of years of melting and geological churning that has affected the rest of the planet. Researchers believe the discovery offers clues to the early chemical evolution of the Earth.

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Ocean’s Color Affects Hurricane Paths

By Guest PostAugust 14, 20101 commentEnvironmentanand gnanadesikan, biological desert, chlorophyll, color, color of ocean, color-depleted zone, ecosystem, fluid dynamics laboratory, hurricanes, noaa, north pacific, ocean, phytoplankton, phytoplankton population, subtropical gyre

WASHINGTON — A change in the color of ocean waters could have a drastic effect on the prevalence of hurricanes, new research indicates. In a simulation of such a change in one region of the North Pacific, the study finds that hurricane formation decreases by 70 percent. That would be a big drop for a region that accounts for more than half the world’s reported hurricane-force winds.

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All Nine Women in Brown University Computer Science Class Intern at Microsoft

By Guest PostAugust 14, 20104 commentsTechnologyalex schultz, apple, avitabile, brown university, computer science, david hasselhoff, diversity, Google, macbu, macintosh business unit, megan hugdahl, Microsoft, nell elliott, parkinson, recruiters, redmond, summer working, women, yin lu

*After spending a summer working in Redmond, the junior class women of Brown University’s computer science department find new confidence.*

REDMOND, Wash. — This summer, all of the junior class women of Brown University’s computer science department found themselves interning at Microsoft.

They can field their own baseball team, with nine women in all — a group small enough to fit around a large lunch table at The Commons, but large enough to make for vibrant conversation. But baseball isn’t what these nine women all have in common – it’s computer science.

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IBM to Acquire Unica Corporation

By Guest PostAugust 13, 20102 commentsTechnology

ARMONK, N.Y. & WALTHAM, Mass. – 13 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, or at a net price of approximately $480 million, after adjusting for cash.

A publicly held company in Waltham, Mass., Unica will expand IBM’s ability to help organizations analyze and predict customer preferences and develop more targeted marketing campaigns.

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