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Interview with Design based Research Experts
“Much has been written about Design-based Research, but what about hearing from some of the experts themselves? These short interviews, conducted at AERA International Convention in 2006, provide some specific insights from some notable researchers in the field of Design-based Research.”
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“ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI’s mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community.”
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Home – National Information Standards Organization
“NISO is where content publishers, libraries, and software developers turn for information industry standards that allow them to work together. Through NISO, all of these communities are able to collaborate on mutually accepted standards — solutions that enhance their operations today and form a foundation for the future.”
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iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they’re getting it | The Verge
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Path addresses privacy controversy, but social apps remain a risk to users
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Your personal data isn’t safe and it’s worse than we thought | Digital Media – CNET News
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Marshall McLuhanThe Wisdom of Saint Marshall, Holy Fool | aether
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“Interface design encompasses three distinct, but related constructs–usability, visualization, and functionality (Vertelney, Arent, & Lieberman, 1990). Recently, a fourth component of interface design has emerged as a critical factor–accessibility. Interface design is most often associated with the development of Web pages, computer software, and multimedia, but is relevant to the creation of any instructional media or technical equipment. “
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NASA – NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012
“With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA’s Airborne Science Program and Earth system science research. Multiple aircraft and specialized instruments will operate in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America this year in support of studies conducted by NASA and the Earth science community, improving scientists’ understanding of our planet.”
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Social media tool aims to help journalists find undiscovered, reliable sources on Twitter | Poynter.
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Why we’re seeing the ugly new face of capitalism – The Globe and Mail
“In contest after contest, business is getting what it wants: lower taxes and lower wages. But their victories are just making it harder for families and communities to get on with their business. The snatch-and-grab ethos that has emerged in the wake of the global economic crisis may fatten an individual corporation’s bottom line; but if too many companies play this game, everyone but the giants are going to lose. “
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Matt Ridley on Crowd-Sourced Science | Mind & Matter – WSJ.com
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COMPASS is dedicated to helping ocean scientists connect themselves and their science to the wider world. By giving scientists the communication tools they need, and by bridging the worlds of science, journalism and policy, COMPASS works to ensure that ocean science is better understood and used by society.
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Magazine – The Atlantic
“Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist’s science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind- controlling parasites.”
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Overcoming Bias : Missing Work Stories
“Stories need conflict. For stories about soldiers, detectives, politicians, artists, doctors, lawyers, and teachers, we know of socially acceptable types of conflict, which do not challenge key ideals. But stories about conflicts in ordinary jobs more easily violate key ideals, and trigger moral outrage.”
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Stumbling and Mumbling: The “scarce talent” con
“Bank bosses have played a trick which countless ordinary workers do. The IT support guy who introduces lots of “security features” to his firm’s IT systems, or the secretary who has an incomprehensible filing system, make themselves indispensable by inconveniencing others.”
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Stumbling and Mumbling: (Non) performativity in economics
“I could, of course, put this more crudely. Economics is performative when it serves the interest of the powerful, and not performative when it doesn’t. In this sense, the problem is not with economics, but with a class structure that causes the “real world” to be a corrupted and perverted form of a market economy.”
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Overcoming Bias : What Is Econ Advice?
“Imagine that economists were surveyed and had to choose how they’d best like to describe economic policy recommendations, as: Morals – Arguing for the morality of actions, Deals – Helping groups find and make deals, or Showing Off – Academics do hard things in order to be certified by other academics as impressive, so that students, patrons, and readers can gain status by affiliating with them. Economic policy analysis is such a hard thing. I’d bet that at least 25% would choose option #2, and even more among those whose style leans sci/tech. And #2 seems to me a better public face for economists to present to the world – economists will prosper more overall if they say this is what they are doing.”
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Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage – NYTimes.com
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Slidevana – Keynote Themes and Powerpoint Templates
Slidevana is the ultimate presentation toolkit. With over 130 beautifully rendered slides, Slidevana gives you the tools you need to quickly create presentations that impress and inspire your audience.
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