Monthly Archives: May 2008

Online study kits irk one Florida professor

By Michael Becker | Published: May 21, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog reported today on a pro­fes­sor at the University of Florida who is upset that an online com­pany, Einstein’s Notes, is sell­ing notes and quiz answers from his wildlife ecol­ogy classes. The pro­fes­sor, Michael Moulton, and his textbook’s pub­lisher have sued Einsten’s Notes, claim­ing that the com­pany is [...]
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Paper Money Discriminates

By Michael Becker | Published: May 20, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled 2–1 that paper money dis­crim­i­nates against the blind, the AP reported this morning. The rul­ing upholds a dis­trict court rul­ing from November 2006. That case, American Council of the Blind v. Paulson, was crit­i­cized by var­i­ous jour­nal­ists and even by the National [...]
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Microsoft and Yahoo may yet do business

By Michael Becker | Published: May 18, 2008
A new trans­ac­tion may soon be on the table between Microsoft and Yahoo, one that does not involve Microsoft acquir­ing all of Yahoo, the com­pa­nies announced Sunday. In a writ­ten state­ment, Yahoo said that Microsoft “is not inter­ested in pur­su­ing an acqui­si­tion of all of Yahoo! at this time.” At the same time, Yahoo is [...]
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‘Baby Mama’ suffers from overwriting

By Michael Becker | Published: May 17, 2008
So, we saw the movie Baby Mama this after­noon. It’s not often that I sit down to write reviews, but the more I think about the movie, the more I think it deserves... something. The film stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both Saturday Night Live stars, but of course you knew that those ladies [...]
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Wikipedia may soon be more useful for students

By Michael Becker | Published: May 16, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Wikipedia’s staff will soon decide whether to add a fea­ture that would make the publicly-editable ency­clo­pe­dia more use­ful to stu­dents and scholars. The new fea­ture would allow ver­sions of the encyclopedia’s arti­cles to be frozen so that experts could the ver­ify the infor­ma­tion con­tained on them. The [...]
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