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Monday, 4 June 2012

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

50 Best iPad Apps for STEM Education | Online Universities ? The ...

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May 30, 2012

by Staff Writers

Despite early doubts, the iPad has proven to be an incredibly valuable tool for education, both in the classroom and in homes around America. By offering students, from elementary school all the way up to the university level, the chance to do some hands-on learning, exploring, and sometimes even educational gaming, the device makes education fun and exciting, something that isn?t always easy to do.

With schools falling behind in math and science education and companies unable to find enough qualified professionals to fill jobs in science and technology fields, pushing STEM education is more important than ever. Educators and parents can help get kids interested and perhaps even hooked on STEM no matter their age with the help of the iPad and the myriad great educational applications it offers. Here, we share some of the best applications for STEM education, and with selections that work for students of all ages and abilities, you?re bound to find something that?s the perfect companion to any STEM lesson.

General

These applications address STEM more generally or act as amazing tools and reference guides for learning.

Mythbusters HD: Fans of the Mythbusters TV show can get even more myth-busting action with this iPad app, filled with videos, games, and much more.
Science Illustrated: Get access to the great stories in Science Illustrated when you get this app, paired with a subscription to the magazine. Stories range from green tech to biology to anthropology, hitting on just about everything else in between, too.
VideoScience: Dan Menelly, a science teacher at the UN International School, provides the short videos at the center of this app, teaching students about all kinds of scientific concepts.
Khan Academy: Practice math, science, and computer science skills by watching the videos and completing the activities offered through the always-free Khan Academy.
Seismograph: Get a quick lesson in earthquakes by checking out this seismograph application that can help you to measure any vibration, shaking, or movement.
iLab: Timer HD: The ideal accompaniment to any lab work, this timer lets you easily time experiments with accuracy and record your results.
Wolfram Alpha: Wolfram Alpha is the ideal reference tool for problems in mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, biology, computer science, and much more.
Science Glossary: Look up the names of famous scientists, scientific terms, and other essential information in this free reference application for iPhone and iPad.
PLoS Reader: Through the PLoS Reader app, learners can access articles from the seven academic journals published by the Public Library of Science.
Exploriments: Exploriments is all about providing students with fun, simulation-based learning units on science topics. Through their apps, students can learn about topics like motion, fluids, electrostatics, force, and electricity.
Science 360: The National Science Foundation provides this app, filled with science and engineering images, videos, and news from around the world.

Science

Download one of these apps to start learning about biology, astronomy, medicine, or physics.

The Ultimate Dinopedia: The National Geographic Society has put together an incredible dinosaur reference tool in this application, letting paleontological enthusiasts of any age get a look at their favorite reptiles.
3D Sun: Here, you?ll find an app that allows you fascinating access to information about our Sun, with a 3D view, satellite images from NASA, and the latest updates on solar activity.
Moon Globe HD: Explore the surface of the Moon with this amazing app. Interactive features allow users to zoom in, find out the name for lunar features, and more.
Frog Dissection: If a real-life dissection turns your stomach, then try out this digital version instead. It?s just as educational, but without all the frog carnage.
Muscle System Pro II: Gain a better understanding of how the muscles in the body work and how they?re all working together in this great anatomy app.
Britannica Kids: Encyclopedia Britannica has put out a great collection of apps for kids, covering topics like snakes, rainforests, the solar system, volcanoes, and dinosaurs.
Molecules: Get up close and personal with a molecule when you get this application. You can download molecules from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, and use the app to see them from all angles.
Simple Physics: This fun and engaging game will have kids of all ages dying to learn more about the principles of physics, as they solve a wide range of physics-related problems.
The Elements: A Visual Exploration: Elements is perhaps one of the most visually-striking apps available for the iPad. Through it, users can see amazing photos of the elements and get a look at the periodic table that?s truly unique.
Pocket Universe: Virtual Sky Astronomy: With this app, students can ask astronomy questions and get answers, as well as having the ability to track the planets and stars through the night sky.
Planets: This 3D guide to the solar system is the perfect tool for an aspiring astronomer, helping in learning the constellations, planets, and moons.
NASA: NASA provides a wealth of learning tools through its application. Download it to get access to loads of interactive features on the solar system, space exploration, and much more.
Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin helps students of all ages learn more about space exploration, whether to the Moon or to Mars, in this must-see app.
3D Brain: The human brain is an incredibly complex organ, but you can start learning the basics of how it functions with some help from this anatomy-focused application.
OnScreen DNA Model: Adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine have never looked better than in this application that lets students (and scientists) see models of DNA in great detail.
GeneIndex HD: Want to know what a certain gene is for? Then get this amazing reference tool, which lists information about every gene in humans, as well as offering news and scholarly articles on the subject.
D. Bones: D. Bones is the perfect way to teach younger learners about the human skeleton, with games, quizzes, and tutorials that make learning fun.

Technology

These iPad applications can be the perfect accompaniment for a course on web design or computer science.

Computer Science and MIS: For those who are just starting out in learning about computer science, this application will fill them in on the basics.
PHP Cheat Sheet: High school and college students will appreciate this reference app to help them with PHP programming.
FTP on the Go: Uploading websites and maintaining online information is a whole lot easier with this FTP app that lets you log into a server from anywhere.
techBASIC: Improve your knowledge of the BASIC programming language, by downloading and checking out this application.
Textastic: From HTML to Python, you?ll be able to do all the coding you need for web design courses right from your iPad.

Engineering

From the professional level all the way down to the elementary level, these fun and practical engineering apps are among the best out there.

Engineering Unit Conversion: Make it easy to convert between units used in engineering by keeping this app on hand.
Mechanical Engineer: Want to pursue a career as a mechanical engineer? Then download this app. It?s loaded with more than 300 important mechanical engineering formulas and hundreds more conversions.
Engineering Professional: This app expands on the information found in the Mechanical Engineer app, adding formulas for chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, and hydrological engineering.
Finger CAD: You might not have the full function that other CAD programs offer, but this iPad app makes it fun to use your hands to draw everything from houses to bridges to simple geometric figures.
TinkerBox: This application is a great tool for teaching basic engineering concepts, asking students to play games created around physics and engineering problems.
NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator: Space enthusiasts young and old will appreciate this application from NASA. It allows users to get an idea of what it?s like to control a lunar rover, offering up a series of missions on the moon to complete.
Geared: Can you figure out the correct combination of gears to get this machine going? This fun and challenging game will steal hours of your time as you try to figure out increasingly more difficult mechanical puzzles.
Paper Bridge: In this educational game, players have to engineer a bridge that will carry vehicles from point A to point B, without collapsing.
LEGO 4+ : With this game, users can play with LEGOs without even having them on hand, building trucks, helicopters, and other vehicles to deliver cargo to a given destination, without getting derailed along the way.

Math

Practice your math skills using some of these fun math games and learning tools.

Math Ref: Never wonder about conversions or the correct mathematical formulas again when you carry around this fully-featured reference application.
Achiever!: Teachers can make use of this educational app (it?s designed for schools only) that helps boost student performance in math and reading.
Sector 33: Developed by NASA?s Ames Research Center, this application asks players to use problem solving and math skills to ensure that a series of planes is safely landed at a very busy airport.
Apollonius: This interactive geometry software allows users to make geometric constructions that would normally require a compass, ruler, or other special tools.
Motion Math: Younger learners will get a fun but challenging look at fractions in this app from the Stanford School of Education.
Mathstronaut: Blast off to math mastery with Mathstronaut, an educational game that asks players to complete a variety of math puzzles in order to travel through space.
Pop Math: This incredibly popular math game is fun even for adults, asking players to pair up equations and their solutions at an ever faster pace.
Math Ninja: Ninjas make everything better, even math! This application is a fun way for learners to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills as they battle giant tomatoes and cat-bots.

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Treating Cancer With AIDS | Health News

Israeli researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem developed a new method to treat cancer with a different deadly disease: AIDS.

Over the past decade cancer has become to be the number 1 cause of mortality in the western world. About 12.7 million people around the world are diagnosed each year with cancer and 7.6 million people die as a result of it.

In Israel alone, about 28,000 people are diagnosed each year, with nearly 11,000 resulting deaths. While cancer research is one of the most advanced fields in the medical research world, there is yet to be a definite cure.

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Radiation therapy limitations

With the lack of a clear solutions, researchers are turning towards less conventional directions. For decades, Prof. Moshe Kotler from the Immunology and Cancer Research Department at the Hebrew University?has been conducting research on the HIV virus. He reached the idea to use the lethal virus in order to fight cancer along with Dr. Roni Nowarski, after they found that a small part of the VIF protein ? which is part of the AIDS virus ? may prevent the restoration of cancerous cells damaged by radiation therapy.

Radiation therapy in cancer patients is causing fractions in the DNA of the cancerous cells, a process that is supposed to terminate these cells and halt the progress of the disease. Nevertheless, in many cases the cancerous cells manage to rehabilitate and become immune to radiation.

HIV against cancer restoration

This is where the VIF protein, found in AIDS, becomes relevant. This protein damages the body?s capability to fight viruses after being exposed to a disease, but the research team headed by Prof. Kotler, found that this property can actually help treat cancer. In lab experiments they have inserted a part of the VIF protein into cultures of blood cancer cells, such as Lymphoma. The results have shown that the protein extracted from the HIV virus attached itself to the protein A3G that exists in cancerous blood cells and prevented them from being restored after radiation.

No risk of infection

Since it is merely a segment of the virus and not the whole virus, there is no risk that it will cause patients infection with AIDS. Even more so, Prof. Kotler predicts that the new treatment won?t have many side effects since the protein influences only cancerous blood cells or blood cells that attack viruses.

The method was found to be effective in some types of blood cancer, such as Lymphoma and Myeloma, but the researchers think there is a possibility that other kinds of cancer, like different types of Leukemia, can be treated as well. ?Leukemia is a name for many types of cancer that can be very different from one another,? explains Dr. Nowarski. ?We don?t have a lot of experience with Leukemia but from the experience we do have, some types reacted and some didn?t. This is because some contain the target protein and some don?t, but we expect that other types of cancer, which have not been tested yet, may react to the treatment if they do contain the target protein.?

Prof. Kotler?s method has been recently registered as a patent by Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University. Currently, the company is trying to find investors for the ongoing development of the product and its commercialization in the future.

The new method was presented during Bio-Med Week ? an international conference held in Tel Aviv and is considered to be the second largest biotechnology conference outside the US. CEO of Yissum, Yaakov Michelin is optimistic: ?There is a great need for an effective and more focused treatment of cancer, with less side effects,? he says. ?The treatment discovered by the researchers has a great potential to become a new biological treatment for cancer.?

However, Prof. Kotler cautions it will still take a long time before this scientific breakthrough becomes a commercial product.

A year ago, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania announced that they have succeeded to treat cancer patients by using a harmless type of AIDS virus, combined in genetic engineering with white blood cells of patients. Three patients went through the experimental treatment. Two of them were cured entirely and one showed signs of recovery. Even though this treatment was also used to treat cancer, there is no connection between their method to that of the Israeli researchers.

The Pennsylvania University researchers used the virus to inject to the DNA genes that attack cancer. Hence, they used a kind of vehicle for cells that fight the disease. The new Israeli method, however, uses the lethal properties of AIDS in order to make the cancerous cells sensitive to radiation, thus killing them.
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A War of Titans: Peace of Mind

In the year 2143 S.C. (Standard Calendar), over a century after the unification of the entire Pangaean continent by the Oligarchic Republic of Saeola, sectional tensions were high. Due to a dispute between the Union Party - supporters of the Saeolan Oligarchic system and of the Council of Electors, elected for life by the people, and from among whom votes would be cast and a president of the entire Republic chosen, and who also elected subcommittees of their own members to form a judicial branch, they themselves serving as the legislative office when not occupied with judicial or executive duties - and the Intellectual Party - revolutionary thinkers who would have reformed the entire government system so only those of a pure Saeolan heritage and bloodline could hold office, and would have special privileges not given to half-breeds between the Saeolan race and other inhabitant cultures of Pangaea - the country split. After a closely watched election, the Union Party won a majority in the Council, causing the outraged Intellectuals, seeing their ideology about to be outlawed, to protest corruption in the very system the Unionists favored, and to secede, taking almost half the Saeolan Republic's states with them. A bitterly fought civil war began, the new Confederacy of Purebloods attempting to force the change in regime it desired when political means failed. Evenly matched in economy, industry, technology and manpower, the war dragged on for decades, neither side winning any definitive victories, and both sides suffering truly staggering losses, over a hundred thousand soldiers dying in almost every battle. Entire states were laid waste by this conflict, the once fertile Saeolan and Confederate lands turned into a rubble-strewn wasteland by the constant bombings and entrenchments, famine spreading across the countryside as stockpiles of food were plundered to feed the troops of both sides. It seemed like this hellish conflict would go on forever, until an unexpected discovery changed everything.

This discovery was the creation of the Operators: artificially created Human girls with incredible intellectual potential. Treated as objects rather than people, the Operators were soon employed in research efforts throughout both sides. However, their abilities gave them the skills they needed to do more than just weapons research.

And so began Project Titan: an attempt to create a new type of combat unit that would revolutionize warfare. These giant, heavily armored units would be piloted by the best of the best, while their onboard systems systems would be placed under the competent control of the Operators. And so, a war unlike any other began, a war that would determine the fate of the entire Pangaean continent...

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