Read original by Kim Thomas 23 Feb 2007 The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be available free online by the end of the year. Once uploaded, it will represent one of the internet’s most important resources. By providing free access to course material...
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Today in Moronia
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
- No such thing as ‘women and children first’ without threats of physical force
- When ‘stand your ground’ is black vs. white, the sentence is life in prison
Science & Technology
MIT puts entire curriculum at disposal of e-learners
New evidence for water on Mars
This image provided by Science shows light-toned layered rock in Becquerel Crater on Mars as photographed by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The orbiter images show alternating layers of dark- and light-toned rock within which are a series of fractures, surrounded by what researchers call...
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