Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.With another long hot American summer coming to a close, many students are scrambling to get back into "learning mode" before school starts. One of the simplest ...
AP - Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S.
AP - The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.
AP - The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.
Nature Education — the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group — launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitable today — bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher with a mobile device.
Mobile users are automatically directed to the appropriate mobile site for their device when they visit Scitable.com.
The ...
AP - For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick.
AP - For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick.
At the intriguing intersection of green tech and microbial genomics lies a new discovery that could make biofuel production more efficient and affordable. That discovery is a strain of yeast with above-average alcohol tolerance.
Biofuels are made by fermenting crops, and when yeast is used to convert sugars into biomass, the fermentation can create familiar alcohol-based fuels like ethanol and ...
AP - Spacewalking astronauts installed a new coolant pump for the International Space Station on Monday, accomplishing urgent cooling-system repairs after more than two weeks of impaired operations in orbit.
The potential for blogs and other new forms of communication to reshape the media landscape has almost certainly been oversold, but there's one corner of the landscape that has been transformed by blogging: scientific communications. As science blogs have grown in number ...
AP - Want to know the future of the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico ecosystem? Look first to its muddy, polluted past.
MIT's OpenCourseWare, possibly the best place to go if you want to study physics in your pajamas, has been awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by Science magazine. OpenCourseWare receives close to 1.5 million pageviews a month, with traffic from ...
As seasoned Internet veterans know, just because a site shows up high on Google's search rankings doesn't mean it's the most credible source on a topic. That little bit of wisdom has apparently not made it all the way down ...
Students who use social networking sites don't seem to suffer academically, according to research out of Northwestern University. In a recent paper titled "Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites," researchers found that heavy use of sites like Facebook and MySpace ...
Reuters - The government is launching a program nicknamed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private U.S. companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear power plants, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition, citing people familiar with the program.
AP - The US government is expected to take over control of the central information website on the Gulf oil spill response that has been run jointly by various agencies and BP for the 2 1/2 months since the rig explosion.
It seems that yet another member of the animal kingdom has taken a liking to the iPad — dolphins.Cats love it and dogs aren’t so sure, but apparently a bottlenose dolphin named Merlin is now an iPad enthusiast. Researcher Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin is working on using the Apple tablet device as a language interface for marine mammals.“We think that ...