by Chris | Oct 1, 2011 | Geospatial
The NYTimes has just released a chart placing all electoral votes from 2008 within their respective Dem or Rep positions. The chart also displays these perspectives with regard to % of Bachelor’s Degrees per state. Interestingly, the states with the most...
by Chris | Sep 20, 2011 | Science
NPR posted a story not too long ago about the “myths” behind drinking water. Much of us have been told since a young age about the benefits of drinking at least eight glasses per day, or the benefits of water for our kidneys, and so on. Well, unfortunately...
by Chris | Aug 3, 2011 | Geospatial
When teaching history, one quickly discovers that good maps are hard to find that illustrate many of the aspects you are trying to teach. A new website, Conflict History, takes all known battles, small and large, and places them in a user-friendly timeline linked to...
by Chris | Feb 27, 2011 | Academics
The list below is meant to avoid becoming the “bitterest person” noted by Matt Groening above. 🙂 So… I was stumbling around the internet and came across a professor’s list of don’ts for graduate students. The list was apparently compiled...
by Chris | Feb 26, 2011 | Middle East Studies, Science
This is more or less my addendum to this graphic I discovered… If you are looking to make a graduate student angry in some way, try making one of these statements or asking one of these questions below. These are not meant as an encouragement of tormenting...
by Chris | Feb 26, 2011 | Academics, Featured, Other, Science
Assuming that you don’t have money, you will have to 1) take out a massive loan, 2) find a fellowship and/or assistantship (Grad Ass), 3) work a minimum of 15-25 hours a week on that assistantship (usually teaching or researching something not your own), or 4)...
by Chris | Feb 15, 2011 | Featured, Geospatial, Science
As the budget debate heats up in Washington between the White House and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, many are concerned about tough to decide changes that are certainly coming. In the most recent newsletter published by the Association of...
by Chris | Feb 10, 2011 | Middle East Studies, The Internets
Al Jazeera, a well respected news source based out of Doha, has always had some sort of live streaming capability for some time now. Recently, however, Al Jazeera has stepped up their services by providing Al Jazeera in 720p HD using YouTube. Al Jazeera is one of the...
by Tim | Feb 9, 2011 | Featured, Hardware, Technology
Around this time last year, I was walking around the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, TX. I was awed at the #9 fastest supercomputer at the time, Ranger (see photo). Ranger is a 579.4 teraflop computer. The fastest computer at the time was Jaguar, a...
by Chris | Feb 8, 2011 | Roku
There are many of us who use Roku that have been missing some of our live sports events on devices like the Roku (and others). However, TheNowhereMan over at the Roku Forums recently updated the PodTV channel to include Premier League soccer from FoxSoccer.tv streams...
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