Science Education & Policy

Tata Interactive Systems Wins APEX Award

MUMBAI, India, August 7 /PRNewswire/--- Global e-learning Provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Wins an APEX Award for its Web-based Training Program on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The RFID on the Web(TM) program developed by Tata Interactiv ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 7 2008 - 2:33am

YOUNG GUNS- Design Graduate Competition

LONDON, August 7 /PRNewswire/--- The Hottest New Designers of 2008- 4 September- 2 November 2008- Awards Private View 28 October 2008 September sees HEARD launch an 8 week showcase competition for young design graduates. The competition provides a great o ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 7 2008 - 2:33am

Award-Winning Avistar C3 Technology Sees Rapid Distribution Through Partner And Technology Channel Strategy

SAN MATEO, California, August 7 /PRNewswire/--- Explosive Growth in Reseller, Distributor and Technology Partner Commitments Underpins Avistar's Turnaround Success and Product Expansion ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 7 2008 - 5:30am

Otx 2 Trigger For Plasticity May Help Make Your Brain 'Young' Again

Researchers have long sought a factor that can trigger the brain's ability to learn – and perhaps recapture the "sponge-like" quality of childhood. In the August 8 issue of the journal Cell, neuroscientists at Children's Hospital Boston ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2008 - 12:23pm

Extreme Politics- Moderate Candidates Have A Tougher Time During Tough Times

People like ideological commitment more than moderation and 'across the aisle' thinking in times of uncertainty, says University of Southern California economist Juan Carrillo, so extreme positions build trust among an electorate during rough per ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2008 - 9:03am

"Intelligent design is not a theory" says DI fellow.

The Panda's Thumb (PT) has a short post giving a quote from Michael Medved, a new fellow at the Discovery Institute (DI) (which promotes intelligent design, or ID). In it, Medved notes that intelligent design is not a theory itself, but merely a chall ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 22 2008 - 11:11pm

Sustainable Development Is A Mirage, Argues Environmental Author

Sustainable development thinking got environmental issues onto the agenda but it may now be stopping us from taking serious action on climate change and other crucial planetary issues, argues John Foster, a freelance writer and teacher and honorary Researc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2008 - 12:57pm

TelcoTV Conference & Expo Announces New Vision Awards Program

IRVINE, California, August 11 /PRNewswire/--- Awards recognizing innovation in video and entertainment convergence will be granted to the most compelling new products, applications, or services ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 11 2008 - 9:30am

Verizon Business Helps Enterprises Realize The Benefits Of Promising, Complex Security Technology

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, August 12 /PRNewswire/--- NAC Provides Strong, Multifaceted Security Defense for Large Businesses Verizon Business is using its unique blend of worldwide professional and managed service capabilities to help customers understand ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 12 2008 - 6:33am

U. of California can reject creationist college prep classes

Religious conservatives who decry postmodernism in the academy, and object to what they see as identity-based scholarship, such a Marxist school of history or African American Studies, have no problem trying to push their own Christianity-based science on ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 11:08pm