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- Suicide theories wanted
- Money can drive you crazy and crazy can drive you to suicide. We treat mental health care as a luxury and we lose people. That's my theory, anyway. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
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- What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?
- As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Not your father's tech school
- Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooks
- The New York Times ran an article this past weekend on Chegg.com short for chicken and egg, a growing textbook rental service. That's right, textbook rental. How many college students buy used books and then return them at the end of a semester? Chegg allows you to simply...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Adult Attention Disorder: The 'Splittering' of Communications
- Used to be â€" say, two-and-a-half months ago â€" that I studiously avoided all the new “social†media. Why did I need MySpace? Why did I need Facebook? Why did I need Twitter? If you wanted to get ahold...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- University-Hospital Doubles IT Management Efficiency With New Software
- Johns Hopkins Institutions wanted to trim the cost of managing its IT infrastructure, which spanned 1,500 Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating system - based servers and 15,000 desktop computers. The organization deployed Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to manage all systems through one console, doubling monitoring efficiency, increasing...
- Case studies 2009-05-02
- Defense Department makes more open source moves
- Your Department of Defense made some major moves on open source this week. It announced it will work with the Open Source Software Institute to bring over 50 administration applications under open source licenses, starting with its Corporate Management Information System. DoD signed a Blanket Purchase Agreement...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Johns Hopkins University APL Lowers Total Cost of Ownership With Innovative Support
- Johns Hopkins University APL wanted to enable APL's core team of eight systems administrators to efficiently support more than 80 developers and 5,000 end-users of Oracle technology - all of whom rely on Oracle-based systems for their research and administrative work. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Data Mining and Predictive Modeling in Institutional Advancement: How Ten Schools Found Success
- This technical report, produced in partnership by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education CASE and SPSS Inc., explores the promise of data mining alumni records at educational institutions. Working with individual alumni records from The Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (A&S), a predictive regression...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic
- Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding
- Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Geriatric Anesthesia (GeriAnes) 11.0.3 (Mobile)
- Geriatric Anesthesiapowered by Skyscape Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Geriatric Anesthesia is the one-of-a-kind resource that reviews everything you need to know about anesthetics in the aged, including palliative care, pain, and polypharmacy. An invaluable resource to residents, students, and persons in clinical practice. This latest update is based on...
- Software downloads 2009-01-07
- Johns Hopkins University APL Streamlines IT Management and Reduces Provisioning Time by 97%
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL wanted to reduce time and effort associated with applying quarterly Critical Patch Updates CPU, which have to be applied within a month of their release and enable the organization to more efficiently provision new servers and software across various tiers - Oracle...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- How our brain sees objects in 3-D
- Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University JHU have discovered how we see objects in depth. Even if computers are better than humans in chess games, they can't beat us in the field of object recognition. This JHU research work 'suggests that higher-level visual regions of the brain represent objects as spatial...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- They really are the fruit of my heart
- In a paper behind the firewall at Science, Johns Hopkins researchers reveal that hydrogen sulfide, the stink you just supplied, is actually a regulator of blood pressure. It's a chemical signal that tells blood vessels to relax. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Osler Medical Handbook 2/e 10.0.7 (Mobile)
- Written by experts at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, this reference covers all of the essential topics encountered in daily practice. It concisely discusses all diseases and disorders in an easy-to-follow, standardized outline format. Each section includes sections on pearls and pitfalls, differential diagnoses, algorithms, and reviews of the most current...
- Software downloads 2008-10-16
- Chilling data from the Arctic
- Chilling data from the ArcticSo much hyperbole, so little factPolar bear populations are on the rise. It's stupid to think that the polar bear is so unadaptable that it can't handle a decrease in ice floes. They'll just hunt from shore. Life adapts.BTW, the sea ice is the SECOND lowest...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?
- [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a time
- Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a timeSheperds nowhere to be foundMany of my university professors I was in the college of engineering had a poor grasp of the English language. One professor named Murata was jokingly called "MoreData" in light of the fact that his English was utter...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?
- Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?It's probably rightIf the rain gushing down the street is red, green and blue, the bear on your shoulder is feeding you grapes and celestial power pours into your body well south of the northern lights, who the fcuk is worried about their cancer anymore?RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
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