HyperTransport Broadens Its HPC Scope
A technology group working on faster data transfer between devices announced a new specification targeted at improving high-performance computing systems. The HyperTransport Technology Consortium said today that it has approved…
Japan: Making 3G Look As Slow As Smoke Signals
DoCoMo is already testing 4G technology that blows by current data speed limits Mamoru Sawahashi has been driving in circles for 16 months, but he feels like he's making plenty…
Abu Dhabi to North Yemen Overland — April 1982
by Ian and June Harner The choice was eventually made, and two weeks by road to North Yemen triumphed over a three week package tour to Japan. Next followed the…
The Empty Quarter
On 31st March 1977 at a public meeting held in the Community Hall, (which the ENHG largely organized) Mr. Wilfred Thesiger introduced a showing of the BP film “The Empty…
Extract from Arabia Felix
The Road to Ubar "Look, Sahib," they cried, "There is the road to Ubar!" "Ubar?" I wondered. "It was a great city, our fathers have told us, that existed of…
History of the Buraimi Oasis
by Nick Saines Geologist, Regional Development Committee, Buraimi. Introduction For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the Al Ain – Buraimi area was known as the ‘Buraimi Oasis’. The Buraimi…
Masirah Island
Masirah is an island approximately 40 miles long by 10 miles wide at its maximum point. On plan it is shaped like an hourglass, being five miles wide at its…
Overland to Jordan
by Ian and June Hamer Following a successful overland journey to North Yemen in 1982, we decided to try the easier but no less interesting drive to Jordan and on…
Doing Something About the Climate
The Century in Review: Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter Mark Twain supposedly wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."…
Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs A Research Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum by Peter M. Sheehan Curator of Geology EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE…
Collecting rocks
Rocks Tell the Story of the Earth The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks…
John Dewey – My Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey's famous declaration concerning education. First published in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80. ARTICLE I--What Education Is I believe that all education…
The Pedagogic Challenges of the Future
Authors: Lt Col Schunck and Maj L. Nielsson It is evident that new opportunities offered to people as described in the “Paradigm of tomorrow” require an effort from each one…
The necessity of education and the importance of maintaining pedagogics as an independent discipline
Contents: Introduction 1. Philosophical anthropology and pedagogics 2. Pedagogics in an era of (post)modern developments 3. What is 'modern youth'? 4. Once again: what is education? 5. A renewed appeal…
Education of national minorities in Lithuania
Nearly all over the world humanism, democracy and civil society are recognized ideals. Powerful and independent state rests on them. Trying to assure that these ideals are met the determinant…
Article on stopping school violence
Understanding why our children/students are resorting to physical violence in school and finding ways to stop the violence and learn to heal. Forty years ago the biggest problems in the…
Library impact on children
Take your child to the library for books. What age is a good age to teach them how to find books & teaching them how to act there. The library…
Education Information: School choice vouchers
Not everyone has a choice when it comes to selecting the right schools for their children. Financial and regional considerations prevent some parents from having school choices. Public schools no…
History and American education today
The education system in America An inside look at the education system in America. Just how well do our schools do at teaching history, and just what are our kids…
Student discipline: is suspension the answer?
Is student discipline as simple as suspension? What alternative solutions are there to the problem of misbehaving students? In the midst of escalating violence in our schools, many adults are…