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The buzzing of smartphones, the clacking of computer keys, the chatter of study groups: Academic libraries aren't the quiet temples to scholarship they used to be. Personal portable technology takes some of the blame. So does the current pedagogical emphasis on group work.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and faculty are searching for answers after, they say, an assistant professor who had been accompanying students on a study abroad trip was detained by Chinese authorities for an undisclosed reason. Weixing Li, assistant professor of practice management at the university's College of Business Administration, last was seen by students in early June - right after the four-week summer program concluded.

In October, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, got a quirky request on YouTube. A hyperactive instructor in a plaid jacket posted a video inviting her to do a Skype interview with his "World Regions" geography class at Virginia Tech.

As a medieval historian with some decidedly old-school habits, Guy Geltner wanted to expand his online presence, but he shuddered at the thought of "friending" or "Tweeting" to get other scholars' attention. Then a colleague introduced him to Academia.edu, one of a growing number of networking sites designed specifically for scholars.

total-impact has come full circle: we were born out of a hackathon thrown by the Beyond Impact project, funded by the Open Society Foundations. Now we’re being generously supported from that same Beyond Impact grant, helping us move from prototype to a reliable, scaleable service.

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

JACKSON, Miss. - Some House members want to ban Mississippi school history courses from promoting "any partisan agenda or philosophy." Sponsored by House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, the measure is supposed to keep history teachers or textbooks from indoctrinating students according to a particular partisan viewpoint.

Nic Alderton's infrequently updated intertube.

Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.

I AM responding to Gareth Cook's Feb. 9 op-ed "Why scientists are boycotting a publisher.'' Cook has omitted details about Elsevier's commitment to universal access. As the former president and CEO of Cell Press, which is an Elsevier imprint based in Cambridge, I can attest to the value added in the publishing process by the scientific editors and production teams Elsevier employs.

A boycott of Elsevier journals has been growing to show opposition to their support of the Research Works Act and their 36% profits (see Research Bought, Then Paid For - an Op-Ed in the New York Times, Elsevier boycott gains momentum, Elsevier responds to the boycott, and "Of goats and headaches"-The Economist on journal publishing for previous posts on these issues ).

With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy a book when with just a click of a button, they could have it delivered to their door?

I almost didn't make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked through the year's post, it was hard not to. If last year (and maybe the year before) was the year of the gigantic graphic, this was the year of big data. Or maybe we've gotten better at filtering to the good stuff.

The Association of American University Presses does not support the proposed Research Works Act, the group said in a statement released Tuesday. But it also does not support an opposing bill, the Federal Research Public Access Act, which would require public access to the results of federally financed research no later than six months after publication.

The Sinking of the Maine - Topics in Chronicling America (Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress).

Frank Glaw1, Jörn Köhler2, Ted M. Townsend3, Miguel Vences4* 1 Zoologische Staatssammlung München, München, Germany, 2 Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 3 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, 4 Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany One clade of Malagasy leaf chameleons, the Brookesia minima group, is known to contain species that rank among the smallest amniotes in the world.

A juvenile of the tiniest chameleon species ever discovered perches on a researcher's fingertip. CREDIT: PLoS One. A species of chameleon small enough to easily perch on a match head has been discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar, a group of scientists has announced.

Digital Humanities Now is pleased to announce the Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673), forthcoming in March 2012. In this comprehensive, peer-reviewed journal we will feature the best scholarship, projects, and tools produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter. The Journal of Digital Humanities will offer expanded coverage of the digital humanities in three ways.

Because I love you all (as friends) and I love Game of Thrones, I combined them both into some sweet valentine’s day cards for you to give to your sweetheart or favorite prostitute. Enjoy! Click for big version or get the bigger printable version… RELATED: I’ve got two prints with these characters for sale at inprnt.com - House Stark and just about everyone.