You're watching the posts published during the month of August del 2007

  1. Do You Want to Live Forever? / 23 August, 2007

    On Google Video you can find a Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life [...]

    No comments yet | Categories: science | Author: Ellen

  2. U.S. News University Ranking / 17 August, 2007

    U.S. News & World Report has puplished its annual university and college ranking: Princeton Tops U.S. News Rankings, Again. In each category, data on up to 15 indicators of academic quality are gathered from each school and tabulated. Schools are ranked within categories by their total weighted score. For undergraduates looking for the top program [...]

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  3. Cornell is Partnering with Google / 11 August, 2007

    Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library’s collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. About 500,000 volumes from Cornell’s collection of nearly 8 million will be digitized over the next six years, including both public domain and copyrighted works. Cornell is the 27th institution to [...]

    No comments yet | Categories: universities | Author: Ellen