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- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Public Archaeology Opportunity in the group AU Anthropology Interest GroupCheck out this opportunity to volunteer on a field archaeology project this summer in Alberta.
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- Gerald Ardito commented on a bookmark Mindfulness Meditation Impairs Task Motivation but Not Performance
- Delia Lazarescu replied on the discussion topic How will the first artificial intelligences be treated in our society?
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Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
By Jon Dron 3 July 2018 @ 6:13pmaeon.co - An article for Aeon by Jon Tennant on the heinous state of affairs that gives unscrupulous publishers profit margins that put Apple to shame while hiding publicly funded research from the public that pays for it. It is a shamefully broken system... -
When Whales and Humans Talk
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 6, 2018 - 2:56pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Group"Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking... -
Decoding Prehistoric Art
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 16, 2018 - 10:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 Students: Check out this CBC Ideas episode about prehistoric art http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/old-masters-decoding-pre-historic-art-with-jean-clottes-1.4487646 -
The Solutrean Hypothesis and Pseudoarchaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 16, 2018 - 10:13amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 Students: Some of you may have seen the documentary featured on CBCs Nature of Things this Sunday, titled Ice Bridge, about the Solutrean Hypothesis. Please read the following important review of this extremely problematic documentary:... -
What is in a name? Words as Symbols of past and present.
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 5, 2018 - 9:05amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anthropology 272: Introduction to Archaeology who are seeking specific examples of the use of symbols by ethnic groups may find this recent article in the Calgary Herald of interest. The 108 year old Langevin Bridge... -
Academic Integrity Webinar - Jan. 30, 5-6 pm (Mountain Time)
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 29, 2018 - 10:41amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAU Library & Scholarly Resources, in cooperation with AU’s Office of the Registrar, will be presenting a webinar on Academic Integrity tomorrow, January 30, from 5 to 6 pm Mountain Time. This session will be presented by Elaine Fabbro,... -
Music for studying
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 9, 2018 - 10:04am Comments (1)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupNeed a break from studying? Need some background music while studying? You can access the AU Music Library at any time. http://news.athabascau.ca/arts/music-library-may/ -
The Gault School of Archaeological Research
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 5, 2018 - 9:39amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupI recently received a Christmas letter from a longtime friend who was previously employed by the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and two CRM (Cultural Resource Management) firms in Alberta and Texas. Mike (Quigg) reported... -
Trials, Tribulations, and Tweaking -- The Final Stretch
By Tyler Lucas December 12, 2017 - 1:16am Comments (4)The one where the robots take over the world because their designer misspelled one of Asimov's laws. -
Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
By Jon Dron 31 May 2017 @ 10:45am Comments (1)thenextweb.com - This is a well thought-through response to a recent alarmist NYT article about cheating among programming students. The original NYT article is full of holy pronouncements about the evils of plagiarism, horrified statistics about its extent, and... -
terra0 - a forest that will one day buy itself
By Jon Dron 19 December 2017 @ 10:58ampaulkolling.de - I love this art project - a forest that owns itself and that makes money on its own behalf, eventually with no human control or ownership. From the blurb... "The Project emerged from research in the fields of crypto governance, smart contracts,... -
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Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
By Jon Dron 18 March 2012 @ 1:56pm Comments (6)healthland.time.com - The answer to this question seems to be a guarded 'yes'. The issue seems to be that we remember things in books not just because of content but because of context - where it was on the page, where it was in the book. In fact, i can sometimes recall... -
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
By Jon Dron 1 December 2017 @ 7:42pm Comments (2)medium.com - A really nice project from the Editions at Play team at Google, in which blockchain is used both to limit supply to a digital book (only 100 copies made) and, as the book is passed on, to make it 'age,' in the sense that each reader must remove two... -
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Wine Making
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 18, 2017 - 10:56amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anthropology 272: Introduction to Archaeology may find a recent report in the Globe and Mail has relevance to the discussion of residue analysis in Chapter 7 of the Renfrew and Bahn text, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and... -
Firefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 266www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer.... -
mLearning and the Mona Lisa
By Rob Power November 5, 2014 - 2:28amLeave it to John Traxler to get me thinking! In his keynote address at mLearn 2014, Traxler used the Mona Lisa as an analogy for the disconnect between mLearning research and practice, and policy makers' expectations. He described policy makers'... -
Mobilizing the MOOC: A Review of Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13)
By Rob Power June 19, 2013 - 7:01amJenny Poole via FlickrMy latest... a review on MOOC News & Reviews about the Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13) micro-MOOC hosted by Academic...
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UNIT-1 Learning Diary
By Gaurav Khanna in the group COMP 266 July 9, 2018 - 1:56amPosted to group: COMP 266This Unit was a little challenging as per me. Thinking about the website topics and then thinking what content to put in it and how to put it in. I wanted to do travel blog because I like traveling and it was a little bit tough on getting the... -
Born to be Good
By Mike Sosteric 18 June 2018 @ 7:03amwww.cbc.ca - Fascinating nature of things documentary on human nature. Hint, it's probably not what you think -
Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 18, 2018 - 8:33pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 students will appreciate this fascinating story about the debate over the Clovis-First model and Jacques Cinq-Mars' discoveries at Bluefish Caves, Yukon. It is written by the extremely talented science journalist, Heather Pringle. You can... -
Blood, Sweat, and Blood
By Ian Cowley April 18, 2018 - 2:51amWhile I’m on assignment, I try to keep as normal a routine as possible that includes runs and workouts. Running in particular is always a great way to see the surrounding area and how the locals live. On my second day at Bishoftu, I did just... -
10 tips (from Oxford University Press) on getting published!
By Peggy Lynn MacIsaac in the group EDDE 806 Doctoral Research Seminar April 4, 2018 - 3:39pmPosted to group: EDDE 806 Doctoral Research SeminarRespect your audience. Write clear straightforward text (not suspense fiction). Give yourself time to write it, ignore it, and then edit it. Don't quit! -
Comp 444 - Final Project - Stage 4 – Assemble the components. - Hopper
By Shaun Vander Heide February 21, 2018 - 4:30pmTo assemble the components I subdivided the tasks into two separate mini projects. 1) The hopper and release valve; 2) The scale.The HopperTo assemble the hopper, my main concern was getting the release valve to function properly. I had a couple... -
Facebook’s days may be numbered as UK youth abandon the platform
By Jon Dron 14 February 2018 @ 9:10pm Comments (1)www.alphr.com - The end of Facebook couldn't come soon enough, but we've been reading headlines not unlike this for around a decade, yet still its malignant tumour in the lungs of the Web grows, sucking the air out of all good things. Despite losses in the youth... -
One Mother's Story of Postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Finding Help
By Dr. Gina Wong February 12, 2018 - 5:10pmI remember the first time it happened. The first time I believed that I could actually be capable of hurting my baby. I was standing at the top of the stairs my first thought was about keeping her safe. I thought, “What if you drop her down the...
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