Month: March 2007
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Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service
Anti-plagiarism software use is becoming commonplace to ensure that students do not submit other people’s work as part of their own. The method of storing submitted essays and comparing with essays submitted in the future poses a potential legal problem. The Washington Post reports that “Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge…
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Where’s Froggy?
Jack and Kim popped in to work to see me last week. Shortly after this photo was taken Froggy vanished. Again. He must be around here somewhere.
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Some women may see 100 million colors, thanks to their genes
Here’s a fascinating article about how we see colour. In particular, thanks to extra colour-detecting cones, some women are able to see millions more shades and colours than other people. This would explain a few things in my household. Article link. (This was linked from slashdot).
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Nurses leave NHS for Oz
Although I wrote, “leave NHS”, many are unable to start work in the UK after qualifying as nurses because jobs are no longer there. “According to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 3,200 nurses of the 8,000 registering to work abroad want to work Down Under.” BBC article.
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Anatomy Teaching: the cruellest cut of all
Some of the GEP students might be interested to see who we saw in London at an anatomy meeting yesterday. They like his DVDs very much.