Quantcast
Channel: Academic Commons - Showcase
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you to annotate, organize and share the...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ukiyo-E Techniques Learning Object

This site is intended to help students, collectors and researchers to better understand the Ukiyo-e technique. Taking Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center Collection of 18th and 19th century...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest

This map, drawn by Randall Munroe (creator of the web comic XKCD), represents online communities (MySpace, Friendster, and so on) as islands and continents. Land size is based roughly on the number of...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project

From Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica—"the world's most powerful mathematical software system"—comes The Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an "open-code...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sistine Chapel in Second Life

Vassar College has recreated the Sistine Chapel in Second Life.The Sistine Chapel was built in the 15th century and is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and other great painters of the Italian...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

2007 Singularity Summit Now Available Online

"To any thoughtful person, the Singularity idea, even if it seems wild, raises a gigantic, swirling cloud of profound and vital questions about humanity and the powerful technologies it is producing,"...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Online Study Group Admin Charged With Academic Misconduct

A student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada is facing charges of academic misconduct / expulsion for his involvement with a chemistry study group on Facebook last term. The student in question...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Contact-Lens Scale See-Through Displays

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) posted a RFI regarding the development of a contact lens which will act as a information display...

View Article


War Of The Worlds 2.0

There was an thought provoking re-enactment of the War Of The Worlds broadcast yesterday on Twitter. The original idea came from Kris Kowal over at his Ask A Wizard blog. The full dialogue can be found...

View Article


Parallel Archive - A Space for Digital Scholarship

Parallel Archive (PA, www.parallelarchive.org) is a space where scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences can upload, store, study, and share their digitized archival sources. It is...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images