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UCL launches iTunes platform

Category: Academia

Today sees the launch of UCL's iTunes platform, which can be used to download, among other things, lectures and seminars. There's not much material on there yet, but the university promises that highlights of UCL on iTunes U will include:...

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Matrix-style "brain downloads" for schoolchildren?

Category: Neuroscience

According to the Daily Telegraph, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Commission, a former Rear Admiral called Chris Parry, believes that "children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years."The article continues that Parry...

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EMBL NeuroSchool

Category: Education

From my inbox: First Interdisciplinary NeuroSchool of the European Neuroscience and Society Network, EMBL, Monterotondo (Rome) Sept. 28th-Oct. 5th We are pleased to invite applications to the first interdisciplinary 'NeuroSchool' of the European Neuroscience and Society Network, a five year...

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Free 3D interactive anatomy software

Category: Education

The Visible Body is a small application created by the Massachussets-based company Argosy Publishing. The software can be downloaded for free, and includes computer graphic models of more than 1,700 anatomical structures, which can be rotated in a three-dimensional...

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Reluctant to perform orally in front of large groups of boys

Category: Education

Wouldn't you be? Even if you weren't a 13-year-old pupil at a boys-only school? My mother just found these old school reports and brought them over to me. Below are reports for maths, physics and biology. They're all handwritten,...

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Language evolution & science literacy

Category: Links

Just posted on the Seed website is an article about the evolution of language by Juan Uriageraka, from the October issue of Seed Magazine. Most of the article concerns the role of the FoxP2 gene in the brains of songbirds....

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Free online neuroscience vids

Category: Neuroscience

The Learner.org website has a large collection of video teaching modules for high school, college and adult students, including modules on the brain and mind. The Brain module has 32 film clips, ranging in length from 5-20 minutes. They include...

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Back to school

Category: Education

I'm off to UCL, to enroll on the M.Sc. in neuroscience....

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OECD report on education in the industrialized world

Category: Education

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just published its annual Education at a Glance report. The survey includes statistics on enrolment and completion rates for primary, secondary and tertiary education from the 30 OECD member countries, including...

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Science manga instructions for building a cosmic ray detector

Category: Education

From a comic book called What are Cosmic Rays, by researchers at the Solar-Terrestrial Evironment Laboratory at Nagoya University in Japan....

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