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2008 Press Release: "Pollution from livestock farming affects infant health"

j wrote 4 days ago: “Wellesley, MA – October 8, 2008 – A new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economi … more →

Researchers at the University of Chicago: Vegan Diets Healthier For Planet, People Than Meat Diets

j wrote 6 days ago: According to the report, “the average American diet requires the production of an extra ton an … more →

Medical School Research Staff - Fellowship opportunity

Rachael Roberts wrote 1 week ago:   Are you a member of research staff in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University? Wou … more →

Tags: Careers for Researchers, Job Vacancies, Academic & Career, research staff, Funding, early career researcher, Research, Fellowship, Newcastle University

Job Vacancy - Technology Transfer Officer, Newcastle University

Rachael Roberts wrote 1 week ago: Technology Transfer Officer, Newcastle University Ref A509A (Faculty) Faculty/Services Medical Scien … more →

Tags: Careers for Researchers, Job Vacancies, research staff, Research, Technology Transfer, Newcastle University, Intellectual Property, commercialisation, Higher Education

Virtual reality, the home edition

Rambler Andrew wrote 1 week ago: G4’s Attack of the Show recently paid tribute to Johnny Chung Lee, a researcher for Microsoft … more →

Tags: Gaming, Virtual Environments, Virtual Lives, Virtual Reality

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon: Elimination of red meat and dairy has more positive environmental impact than eating locally

j wrote 1 week ago: In a 2008 study titled “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United St … more →

Study finds link between livestock pollution and infant health

j wrote 1 week ago: “Wellesley, MA – October 8, 2008 – A new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economi … more →

"Green" fish? It's not always easy to know . . .

j wrote 1 week ago: The following article details a study that concluded that nearly half of a the 31 sushi restaurants … more →

Chicago, Chicago ...

Rambler Andrew wrote 2 weeks ago: Rambler Andrew at the Sears Tower overlooking Chicago. After a short hiatus, I have returned to my b … more →

Tags: MMO's, Personal, Virtual Identity, Computer mediated communication, MMO, MMORPG

Does online dating allow women to behave and express themselves more freely?

hats82 wrote 2 weeks ago: A recent study was conducted to explore whether online dating allows women to behave and express the … more →

Tags: Online Dating, Women

Finance Minister Mukherjee deserves a cheer for connecting with economics (though half a cheer gets subtracted)

drsubrotoroy wrote 2 weeks ago: From Facebook today Independent India’s Finance Ministers have never in 62 years referred to e … more →

Tags: Academic economics, America's mortgage crisis, Economic Policy, economic theory, India's Government economists, India's 1991 Economic Reform, India's Banking, India's currency history, India's Economic History

Life's paradoxes: On watching the fall of the Berlin Wall in Honolulu, November 1989

drsubrotoroy wrote 3 weeks ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy  recalls how, twenty years ago in Honolulu, he called his three-year old … more →

Tags: Academic economics, Academic Freedom, American academia, Fraud on the court, Freedom, Good and Evil, Law, Lying, Mendacity

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

drbexl wrote 1 month ago: Well, you know me, I like to collect qualifications, but this one is pretty much compulsory nowadays … more →

Tags: Qualification, PGCLTHE

Faux-Kart

Rambler Andrew wrote 1 month ago: According to a recent CrunchGear post, Japanese researchers have developed a virtual reality vehicle … more →

Tags: Presence (telepresence), Virtual Reality, Presence, telepresence, Virtual Environments

Robots and avatars and telepresence, oh my!

Rambler Andrew wrote 1 month ago: My brother, Scott, a college IT director, sent me this article from the Washington Post. The gist is … more →

Tags: Presence (telepresence), Virtual Reality, Avatars, Presence, telepresence

Mice don't need a mouse to play video games1 comment

Rambler Andrew wrote 1 month ago: The ISPR listerv, PRESENCE-L, brought me this story today about mice playing video games….Well … more →

Tags: Presence (telepresence), Virtual Reality, Presence, telepresence, Virtual Environments, experiment, Neurology

Two scientific Boses who should have but never won Nobels

drsubrotoroy wrote 1 month ago: From Facebook: Einstein’s young collaborator Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) should have been a winn … more →

Tags: Biology, India's scientists, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Nobel Prizes, Physics, Satyendranath Bose, Science, Surendranath Roy

Web Research Tips and Tricks for Academics and Debaters

compassioninpolitics wrote 2 months ago: Scott Phillips recently put together a great list of five fanatic tools for debaters to do more effi … more →

Tags: E-learning, lifehacks, Productivity Tips, web 2.0 productivity, Research Tips, Research Techniques

Does ‘frivolous’ academic research have any value?1 comment

policypressblog wrote 2 months ago: Readers may not be surprised to know that “celebrity does not further careers in academic rese … more →

Tags: Research, Paul Cotrell, research funding


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