An article in the November 10, 2008, edition of The New York Times by Carl Zimmer, “Now: The Rest of the Genome,” discusses the thoroughly fascinating (and exceedingly difficult) of mapping the human genome. The article includes this gorgeous graphic, “Mapping the Epigenome” (click image to enlarge): Upon first viewing the image I was…
Josh Marshall has confirmed that the Obama campaign has bought add space in the game Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 platform. A screen shot: Gigaom reports: “I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told…
CommonCraft has released a new video, “Web Search Results in Plain English“:
The outstanding social bookmarking and annotating application, Diigo, has announced the release of Diigo Education. Designed in collaboration with educators from all grade levels, and with an eye toward the challenges of K-12 teachers gaining Diigo access in their classrooms, Diigo Education joins Edublogs and Voicethread with an education-specific side of an already robust…