25th Mar 2008

Trying out clipmarks for the first time

Check out clipmarks.com. This is pretty nice!

We’re reading Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in the E-Merging Learning Technologies course that I’m teaching, and I think he’d be really disturbed at how easy technology makes it to reduce the context of a story even further.

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com

Mars avalanche image

March 3, 2008—The first-ever picture of avalanches occurring on Mars might have had scientists yodeling for joy when they found it among the latest batch of images from NASA’s orbiting HiRISE camera.

“We plan to take more images of the site through the changing Martian seasons to see if this kind of avalanche happens all year or is restricted to early spring.”

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