Why universities should teach alternative medicine

Campus area farms offer lots of living lab space

Tim Dodge, who grew up on a dairy farm and worked for seven years as a field assistant at Cornell, felt well prepared for his job as manager of 352-acre Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment St...

Article - Mary Woodsen _ Cornell University

The ethics of brain boosting

The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still v...

Post - University of Oxford

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Above all else, your personal brand is a story

People love stories. Humans learn most effectively through stories. Friends are made by sharing stories. Sales are closed through stories. You are missing out on the value of your personal brand if it isn...

Blog - Rebecca Rapple

A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide

Over the Christmas period, a short Bill was introduced into the US House of Representatives. The Research Works Act aims to make it illegal to require researchers to make their work publicly available. If passed, Aus...

Article - Danny Kingsley for The Australian National University

Is computer coding going to be the next required “literacy?”

It’s very clear that the computer and the Internet are revolutionizing almost everything that we do. From shopping to entertainment, newsgathering and dissemination, and on to education, almost all of the services and ...

Blog - Natasha Bright for Test Drive College Online

Teaching with tech: could iBooks Author spark an education revolution?

Late last week, Apple announced the launch of a new piece of software, iBooks Author, and a new version of its eBook reader, iBooks 2. It’s a development that promises to accelerate the move to interactive eBooks, ...

Article - David Glance

Historian launches project to debate free speech

A research project which invites people to debate global free speech in the internet age was launched at Oxford University this last week. Free Speech Debate, which is led by Professor of European Studies Timothy Gart...

Blog - University of Oxford

Virtual world set to change history as we know it

A groundbreaking project at the University of Sheffield is set to revolutionise the way we engage with the past via the use of online virtual worlds and social networking. Based on popular online virtual worlds such a...

Media Release - University of Sheffield

A conceptual foundation for teaching “Sustainability” courses

Sustainability studies, for me, is an opportunity to explore our relationship with some power greater than finite ourselves. And what could possibly be more important than that?...

Blog - John M. Gerber for UMass Amherst

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