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• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, New article in Chemical Geology, on the site dissolution 4 days, 11 hours ago

  A new article from our group, one forming part of Bree Morgan’s PhD thesis:

  Morgan, B., Burton, E.D., Rate, A.W. 2011. Iron monosulfide enrichment and the presence of organosulfur in eutrophic estuarine sediments. Chemical Geology doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.12.005.
  Abstract
  This study uses selective extractions in combination with S K-edge…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Teaching with tech: could iBooks Author spark an education revolution?, on the site The Conversation At UWA 5 days, 6 hours ago

  Assoc Prof David Glance
  Late last week, Apple announced the launch of a new piece of software, iBooks Author, and a new version of its eBook reader, iBooks 2. It’s a development that promises to accelerate the move to interactive eBooks, by radically simplifying their development.

  The days of bulky textbooks…

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• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, Huge drop in year 12 students studying science, on the site dissolution 1 week, 5 days ago

  …high school students have abandoned science in ”staggering” numbers and the downward trend is likely to continue…

  Read more: Huge drop in year 12 students studying science.

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, How Aboriginal burning changed Australia’s climate, on the site The Conversation At UWA 2 weeks, 2 days ago

  Assoc Prof Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll
  For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians burned forests to promote grasslands for hunting and other purposes. Recent research suggests that these burning practices also affected the timing and intensity of the Australian summer monsoon.

  It is perhaps difficult for some of us…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Killing the Kodak moment … is the iPhone really to blame?, on the site The Conversation At UWA 2 weeks, 5 days ago

  By Assoc Prof David Glance
  According to the Wall Street Journal, camera manufacturer Kodak is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following a long struggle to maintain any sort of viable business.

  Smartphones are changing the way we take (and share) photos.
  Apple

  The…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Googling the past: how I uncovered prehistoric remains from my office, on the site The Conversation At UWA 2 weeks, 5 days ago

  By Professor David Kennedy
  Archaeology is the study of the remains of the past but has long been predatory on the sciences and their ever-growing technologies. I was brought up as a student in 1970s Britain, when we learned of the wonderful revelations to be made through aerial viewing of almost any human landscape.

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• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Reviewing the top medical iPhone apps … what’s the diagnosis?, on the site The Conversation At UWA 2 weeks, 5 days ago

  Want to quit smoking, lose weight, manage your diabetes or get a good night’s sleep? No worries. There’s an app for all of that.

  But it’s not always clear which medical apps are based on solid evidence and which aren’t.

  We asked the experts to review eight prominent medical apps. They considered whether the apps were useful and medically…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Top ten tech predictions for 2012 … and how to interpret them, on the site The Conversation At UWA 3 weeks ago

  
  By Assoc Prof David Glance
  Around this time of year you see plenty of articles (such as this one) reflecting on notable technologies and events of the year now gone. Such pieces will also attempt to predict the events of the year just started.

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  When reading these articles, it’s worth…[Read more]

• David Glance wrote a new post, The ongoing insurrection: Anonymous hacks intelligence firm, on the site Tech Muse 1 month ago

  The Hack

  Christmas definitely did not arrive for strategic intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor). Their site was hacked by Anonymous on Christmas eve, their web site defaced, over 2GB of emails removed, and the Stratfor private subscriber list and details of 90,000 credit cards from subscribers taken.

  The stolen…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Telstra BigPond failure exposes more than just customer details, on the site The Conversation At UWA 1 month, 2 weeks ago

  By Assoc/Prof David Glance

  At approximately 1pm on Friday, a customer of Telstra BigPond – Australia’s largest internet service provider – posted on a forum that:

  “If you do a Google search for that number [the number for Telstra’s ‘Bundles’ department, 1800 008 851], you get a very interesting result. Um, Telstra, that’s customer…[Read more]