∞ Keith Cowing, Webmaster, astrobiologist, journalist, former rocket scientist, and recovering ex-civil servant.
∞ Keith Cowing is trained as a biologist (M.A. and B.A. degrees) and has a multidisciplinary background with experience and expertise that ranges from spacecraft payload integration and biomedical peer review to freelance writing and website authoring
∞ editor and webmaster of the somewhat notorious NASA Watch, an online publication devoted to the free and uncensored exchange of information on space policy and NASA operations. This website is read regularly within NASA, Congress, and the global space community. Keith is also editor of SpaceRef.com an online space news and reference resource he runs with his business partner Marc Boucher as well as the newly launched OnOrbit.com.
∞ Keith has appeared hundreds of times on television and radio including ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, NPR, CNN, PBS, CBC, CTV, Discovery Channel Canada, NHK, BBC, Travel Channel and has been quoted in a number of newspapers and magazines ranging from Wired and the Washington Post to the Economist and Pravda, among others. || @[Wikipedia|MakeMagazine] ||
∞ Make (or MAKE) is an American quarterly magazine published by[1] O'Reilly Media which focuses on do it yourself (DIY) and/or DIWO (Do It With Others) projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines. The magazine is marketed to people who enjoy "making" things and features complex projects which can often be completed with cheap materials, including household items. ||
It's by no means a new debate, but it remains an important one, and today the Wall Street Journal tackles the issue with a pair of essays [...]
Smarter
Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, holds down the pro-internet side with "Does the Internet Make You Smarter?" He compares the advent of the internet to that of movable type, which initially made for a flood of amateur literature but ultimately had "the effect of increasing, rather than decreasing, the intellectual range and output of society." [...]
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En el Wall Street Journal de hoy aparecen 2 artículos muy interesantes [...]
El primero de los artículos se titula “¿Internet te hace más inteligente?“. Creado por Clay Shirky, autor de “Exceso cognoscitivo: Creatividad y generosidad en una edad conectada”, según su punto de vista el uso de internet en detrimento de la televisión obliga a la gente a leer y escribir más, siendo el contenido desechable y trivial de internet algo que desaparecerá por si solo, triunfando el potencial imaginativo y creativo. [...] ||
Me performing "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga at Edmond's Sixth Grade Festival.
I own no rights to this song.||
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On her talk show today, Ellen Degeneres announced that she is launching her own record label, eleveneleven, and that 12-year-old YouTube sensation Greyson Chance will be the first artist on the label. || [...]
