California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial

California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC

 

Improving education on environmental risks and fetus

Most Doctors Fail To Warn Pregnant Patients About Environmental Risks That Could Endanger Their Fetuses
Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com

Image courtesy of ShutterstockA new nationwide survey, conducted by University of California, San Francisco researchers, shows that most doctors are not informing their pregnant patients about environmental risks they may encounter while…

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Americans have too much stuff

UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time
inhabitots.com

Fam­i­lies drown­ing in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Cen­tu­ry: 32 Fam­i­lies Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Cen­ter on Every­day Lives of Fam­i­lies (CELF). To get infor­ma­tion fo…

RT @inhabitat: American families have too much stuff and too little time – buy less this holiday season! http://flip.it/aWCFb http://flip.it/CB4fW

Anthropologists studying stuff

UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool

 

Increasingly new information schools are cropping up with combine engineering, social science and technology studies.

School of Information.