quinta-feira, 30 de julho de 2015

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BBC - Future - Coffee in crisis: The bitter end of our favourite drink?

BBC - Future - Coffee in crisis: The bitter end of our favourite drink?:

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FCT foi avaliada

FCT foi avaliada e Nuno Crato diz que resultados apoiam as suas políticas - PÚBLICO: "FCT foi avaliada"



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Uma nova FCT? - PÚBLICO

Uma nova FCT? - PÚBLICO: "Uma nova FCT?"



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Haja Luz nas Escolas - Ano Internacional da Luz 2015

Haja Luz nas Escolas - Ano Internacional da Luz 2015:

Ano Internacional da Luz 2015

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Instituto de Gestão do Fundo Social Europeu - Guia “Educação para o Empreendedorismo”

Instituto de Gestão do Fundo Social Europeu - Guia “Educação para o Empreendedorismo”:


http://www.igfse.pt/upload/docs/2015/GuiaparaEducadores_EducacaoparaoEmpreendedorismo.pdf



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quarta-feira, 29 de julho de 2015

http://auma.economico.sapo.pt/noticias/apagao-no-smartphone-acenda-uma-vela_225014?_swa_cname=newsletter&_swa_csource=afiliado&_swa_cmedium=email&cpid=economicot3

The right (ful) way for scholars to meet...

Huygens synchronization of two clocks : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

Huygens synchronization of two clocks : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group:

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Kepler-452b: What It Would Be Like to Live On Earth's 'Cousin'

Kepler-452b: What It Would Be Like to Live On Earth's 'Cousin':



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He’s flying! Thousands cheer Sir Ben in Solent spectacular | The Sunday Times

He’s flying! Thousands cheer Sir Ben in Solent spectacular | The Sunday Times:

The British team in acttion during the race in Portsmouth yesterday

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Pluto is crunchy with a soft centre | The Sunday Times

Pluto is crunchy with a soft centre | The Sunday Times:

Pluto appears to have glaciers

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Leaf it out! Cheeky US tries to teach Brits about tea | The Sunday Times

Leaf it out! Cheeky US tries to teach Brits about tea | The Sunday Times:



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The Big A: AA Gill on why Alzheimer’s is the new Big C | The Sunday Times

The Big A: AA Gill on why Alzheimer’s is the new Big C | The Sunday Times:






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A distilled history of Scotland | The Sunday Times

A distilled history of Scotland | The Sunday Times:

Brian Townsend explores the impact of whisky on Borders life

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Your holiday reading guide | The Sunday Times

Your holiday reading guide | The Sunday Times:

The best summer reads

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sábado, 25 de julho de 2015

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150721-famous-fluid-equations-are-incomplete/

O mundo visto da China (post Fcbk AS Pereira)

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Post de excepcional valor acadêmico  e não só, do Prof. Dr A Santos Pereira, UBI:





O mundo visto da China por um sábio jesuíta Matteo Ricci nos primórdios do século XVII, e a memória de um beirão também jesuíta
A primeira tradução dos livros do Confúcio do chinês para latim foi feita por um jesuíta italiano Matteo Ricci, em 1593, mas para português foi feita por um jesuíta português, o padre Joaquim Guerra (1908-1993), um beirão de Lavacolhos, da antiga comenda de Nossa Senhora da Silva da Ordem do Templo/Cristo que também abrangia Sobral de S. Miguel a que me honro de pertencer. Participei ativamente no ensino do Mandarim no Laboratório de Línguas da UBI e já aqui propus um Museu das Religiões que permitem a representação humana do divino, aqui, na Beira. Estamos a tempo.

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...in Stockholm:

quinta-feira, 23 de julho de 2015

http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/mundo/2015-07-23-NASA-anuncia-descoberta-de-primo-mais-velho-da-Terra

sábado, 18 de julho de 2015

New Horizons: Why bother exploring the Solar System? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33569565
http://www.publico.pt/ciencia/noticia/no-coracao-de-plutao-ha-uma-planicie-gelada-1702401

sexta-feira, 17 de julho de 2015

Mendelay Android app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendeley
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/15/responsible-metrics-and-the-ref/
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/17/structural-conditions-push-against-responsible-use-of-metrics/

Gluino?..

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/something-goes-bump-in-the-data

http://www.eso.org/public/portugal/news/eso1529/

Something goes bump in the data The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC see something mysterious, but it’s too soon to pop the Champagne.

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/something-goes-bump-in-the-data
http://www.toyota-global.com/innovation/personal_mobility/i-road/

quinta-feira, 16 de julho de 2015

http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/antimatter-and-gamma-rays-help-steer-cancer-killing-machines_en.html

Financiamento Ensino superior: 015 016 and beyond

http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/governo-altera-e-adia-proposta-de-financiamento-do-ensino-superior-1702179
http://www.publico.pt/ciencia/noticia/primeiros-vislumbres-da-superficie-de-plutao-1702183
http://m.economico.sapo.pt/inicio/modal/artigo/oceanario-de-lisboa-e-o-melhor-do-mundo_223820.html

quarta-feira, 15 de julho de 2015

terça-feira, 14 de julho de 2015

segunda-feira, 13 de julho de 2015

New Horizons: Spacecraft data boosts Pluto's size - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33513905

domingo, 12 de julho de 2015

Surprise?

Ashes 2015: Superb England hammer Australia to take 1-0 lead - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/33492984

sexta-feira, 10 de julho de 2015

Teaching physical aspects of the molecular biosciences

Teaching physical aspects of the molecular biosciences:




The aim of this free highly interactive workshop will be to share ideas and practice in teaching concepts that lie right towards the physics end of the molecular biosciences curriculum. By “molecular biosciences” we mean courses with a strong focus on biochemistry and broader molecular cell biology: courses where Stryer, Voet and Voet, or Alberts would often be core textbooks. By “physical aspects” we mean things like kinetics, binding, thermodynamics, interaction forces, structural biology, physical methods, and aspects of computing and modelling. But those definitions are very much open to interpretation .. hence the workshop.
By the end of the workshop we aim that
  • we will all have better ideas of how this area is taught at different institutions
  • we will all have learned about innovative ideas to enhance our own teaching
  • we will have started to draw together the scope of a realistic curriculum in this area
Although the emphasis will be on teaching physical topics to molecular bioscientists, we also welcome those teaching molecular biosciences to physics, chemistry, maths or engineering undergraduates. We realistically acknowledge this distinction, but do not wish to perpetuate it unnecessarily
Issues to be addressed might be
  • How do we maintain the interest of both students for whom physics was a complete anathema at school, alongside students who might well have pursued a physical sciences undergraduate career?
  • How do we assess our students’ range of backgrounds in physics and maths (and chemistry) , and what can we assume ?
  • Which is best – a “statistical thermodynamics” slant (entropy is a statement about the most abundant type of state dominating) versus a “classical thermodynamics slant” (entropy increases). The former is a lot more “molecular”, but the latter is much more engrained in the textbooks.
  • Can we bring in “modern” and general concepts such as non linear least squares fitting, and dislodge things such as the Lineweaver Burke plot whose virtue stems from pre computer days?
  • Can we use single molecule ideas to enliven the students’ intuition and imagination about concepts such as thermal activation and “kT”?
  • Molecular bioscience courses are often fact rich: what should the kinetics and thermodynamics curriculum restrict itself to so it can stay concept rich?
  • How far should we expect the undergraduate curriculum to go? When is a maths-light approach helpful, and when is it a barrier to proper understanding
  • Rates and rate constants: why do people find them so hard to tell apart?
  • Do phrases like “mass action” and “binding isotherm” need rooting out
  • Rates and rate constants: why do people find them so hard to tell apart?
  • Where do computer methods fit in ? Can we use simple numerical integration (time-stepping) to take the mystique out of differential equations?
  • How much detail of X ray crystallography or NMR can we hope (or need) to teach.

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Light from distant black holes doesn’t surf on waves of quantum foam | Ars Technica UK

Light from distant black holes doesn’t surf on waves of quantum foam | Ars Technica UK:



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How Fuzzballs Solve the Black Hole Firewall Paradox | Quanta Magazine

How Fuzzballs Solve the Black Hole Firewall Paradox | Quanta Magazine: "The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox"



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Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a Collapsed 4-D Star" (Today's Most Popular)

Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a Collapsed 4-D Star" (Today's Most Popular): "Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a Collapsed 4-D Star" "

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Iogurte grego junta-se à cereja do Fundão @ urbi.ubi.pt

Iogurte grego junta-se à cereja do Fundão @ urbi.ubi.pt:

O iogurte está à venda em Lisboa e nos revendedores da marca nacional que o produz

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Museu de Lanifícios destaca tecido que nasceu na Escócia e se impôs no mundo @ urbi.ubi.pt

Museu de Lanifícios destaca tecido que nasceu na Escócia e se impôs no mundo @ urbi.ubi.pt: " Museu de Lanifícios destaca tecido que nasceu na Escócia e se impôs no mundo"

A mostra temporária exibe peças e objetos, lembrando figuras icónicas da Escócia

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Simpósio mostrou trabalho do Centro de Investigação para as Ciências da Saúde @ urbi.ubi.pt

Simpósio mostrou trabalho do Centro de Investigação para as Ciências da Saúde @ urbi.ubi.pt: "Simpósio mostrou trabalho do Centro de Investigação para as Ciências da Saúde"

O Simpósio decorreu na segunda e terça-feira, dias 6 e 7, e teve no programa perto de 40 comunicações

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Meow...!

Mozambique lion population 'grows' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33469042

A lion and a lioness rest at Lion Park, near Pretoria, on June 29, 2010.

Pluto. Up close.

Pluto snapped from eight million km http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33459476

Pluto

Hard men can still show they have a heart | The Times

Hard men can still show they have a heart | The Times:

You may have noticed that a Test series gets under way today. Two teams, two groups of fine cricketers, will go at each other over the course of five matches, each match consisting of up to five days, the series itself representing merely the latest staging post of a duel extending over the course of more than a century. The Ashes was effectively conceived in 1882.



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EUA > ‘Next Step into the Future of Entrepreneurship Education’ International symposium, 10-11 September 2015, Berlin, Germany

EUA > ‘Next Step into the Future of Entrepreneurship Education’ International symposium, 10-11 September 2015, Berlin, Germany: "‘Next Step into the Future of Entrepreneurship Education’ International symposium, 10-11 September 2015, Berlin, Germany An international symposium on ‘Next Step into the Future of Entrepreneurship Education’ will take place from 10 to 11 September in Berlin. More than 250 practitioners and experts in entrepreneurship education are expected to take part in the event. The symposium, which would include interactive workshops and plenary sessions on different topics, is being organised by Coneeect, the international network of higher education institutions that promote excellence in entrepreneurship education. They aim to present ideas from over 250 educators from various HEIs covering about 20 countries.   EUA will also conduct a workshop on the U-B Tool (Assessment Tool for University-Business Collaborative Research Partnerships) at the event. "

Strong Universities for Europe

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EUA > ‘Higher Education Open Space – ensuring 20% student mobility benchmark’, 3-5 November 2015, Luxembourg

EUA > ‘Higher Education Open Space – ensuring 20% student mobility benchmark’, 3-5 November 2015, Luxembourg: "‘Higher Education Open Space – ensuring 20% student mobility benchmark’, 3-5 November 2015, Luxembourg The European University Foundation is organising an international conference on ‘Higher Education Open Space – ensuring 20% student mobility benchmark’ on 3-5 November 2015 in Luxembourg. The conference, which will be organised in the context of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will bring together university leaders, staff and students. It will address the importance of achieving 20% student mobility by 2020 while ensuring the quality of mobility."

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EUA > EUA-CDE Annual Meeting takes stock of doctoral education

EUA > EUA-CDE Annual Meeting takes stock of doctoral education: "More than 230 participants met on 18-19 June at the Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, to take stock of the developments in European doctoral education over the last decade and discuss the challenges ahead. While taking into account the major challenges for universities in general, conference participants focused in particular on three areas: open access, research integrity and capacity building. Open access was seen as part of a larger digital challenge for universities, which also included open and blended learning. Research integrity was discussed as an increasingly important activity to support the development of sound research practices at universities at a time of increasing pressure on institutions as well as on individual researchers. Participants gave examples of cases where research integrity had become an integral part of the training of doctoral candidates. Finally, the topic of capacity building touched on a number of issues, from developing regions that are less research intensive to the question of collaboration on doctoral education between universities and universities of applied science."



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FRINDOC Launch Event International Doctoral Education – the role of institutions Hosted by Imperial College London, United Kingdom 24-25 September 2015

EUA:

FRINDOC Launch EventInternational Doctoral Education – the role of institutions  

Hosted by Imperial College London, United Kingdom
24-25 September 2015




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quinta-feira, 9 de julho de 2015

Metrics: how to handle them responsibly | Times Higher Education

Metrics: how to handle them responsibly | Times Higher Education:


Couple pushing car full of numbers up hill

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Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a Collapsed 4-D Star" (Today's Most Popular)

Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a Collapsed 4-D Star" (Today's Most Popular):

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How Fuzzballs Solve the Black Hole Firewall Paradox | Quanta Magazine

How Fuzzballs Solve the Black Hole Firewall Paradox | Quanta Magazine:



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Can’t solve an equation….bypass it !!! | CQG+

Can’t solve an equation….bypass it !!! | CQG+:



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Light from distant black holes doesn’t surf on waves of quantum foam | Ars Technica UK

Light from distant black holes doesn’t surf on waves of quantum foam | Ars Technica UK:



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‘Supersymmetry may show up at the new run of LHC’ - The Hindu

‘Supersymmetry may show up at the new run of LHC’ - The Hindu:

Edward Witten is the only physicist who has so far received the Fields Medal. Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.

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