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Higgs bosun
January 1, 2013, Comments Off on Higgs bosun

Higgs boson was just a start for Cern’s atom smasher – other mysteries await The Large Hadron Collider will shut ...

End-of-the-year 2012
December 31, 2012, Comments Off on End-of-the-year 2012

Photos: Aislin’s favourite winter cartoons Aislin (aka Terry Mosher) writes: They say that winter 2012-13 will be ...

Education: demographics and trends 2011-2012
December 26, 2012, 6 Comments

About Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer co ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) – bad news & good news
December 10, 2012, 2 Comments

2012 10 December Google makes MIT professor’s dream of “$100 laptop” a reality (Reuters) – Googl ...

Give a goat, a shovel, a toy … or an engineer
December 1, 2012, Comments Off on Give a goat, a shovel, a toy … or an engineer

We first posted this five years ago and added to it in 2009. It is worth reposting every year as a reminder to us all th ...

The Concorde
November 29, 2012, Comments Off on The Concorde

Concorde website with photos and news of where individual aircraft are now displayed Good historical overview Concorde c ...

Social media, society and technology 2009-2012
November 15, 2012, Comments Off on Social media, society and technology 2009-2012

Restrictions to limit Internet access on the rise, warns UNESCO The United Nations agency which deals with freedom of ex ...

‘Punch’ Sulzberger, R.I.P.
September 29, 2012, Comments Off on ‘Punch’ Sulzberger, R.I.P.

‘Punch’ Sulzberger, R.I.P. By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, better known as Punch, transformed this newsp ...

Woodsworth gone from Concordia
September 5, 2012, 1 Comment

Concordia goes through senior administrators like Elizabeth Taylor went through husbands! Peggy Curran blog University C ...

London 2012 Olympics
August 13, 2012, Comments Off on London 2012 Olympics

(The Independent) London 2012 Olympics: A musical farewell to the world at the closing ceremony (The Guardian) London 20 ...