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"Filling Gaps in the Mineral Cabinet" - Wikiedu (the educational arm of #Wikipedia) interviewed NDSU Mineralogy student Zoe M, having noticed our students' work over the years on creating Wikipedia articles on new #minerals.

Filling gaps in the mineral cabinet
In Wiki Education’s Wikipedia Student Program, students are assigned to edit a Wikipedia article on a course-related topic by their higher education instructor. For some students, they pick s…

"The NPRM would also hike design patent filing and issuance fees. The USPTO notes that no maintenance fees are owed on design patents and that the USPTO has been subsidizing design patent examination with revenue from the utility patent side." - @… #DesignPatents

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
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"@… goes into some of the reasons…including a dive into the numbers that show that #KevinKelly’s 1000 True Fans idea (like pretty much everything the man has written) is an unrealistic fantasy.
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That’s not how it plays out in real markets, on the …

Media needs more than subscriptions and streaming
Joan Westenberg wrote the following in The creator economy can’t rely on Patreon.: Creators who are burned out by renting space on someone else’s platform and playing the Shopping Channel game, squeezing dollars out of sponsored promotions, eventually shift toward a direct funding patronage model.

If an #Asteroid (or similar) is flying directly towards #earth and is not supposed to hit earth on exactly that very calendar day today or in future, then this is actually good news: for most cases, an object needs to target a future position of the moving earth around the sun and not our current position. 🤓…

2024 NFL Draft: First-round order, top five needs for all 32 teams following free agency frenzy https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-draft-first-round-order-top-five-needs-for-all-32-teams-following-free-agency-frenzy…

2024 NFL Draft: First-round order, top five needs for all 32 teams following free agency frenzy
The free agency frenzy's largely in the rearview, bringing remaining roster holes into focus ahead of the 2024 NFL Draft at the end of this month. Check out the updated draft order for Round 1, with Chad Reuter identifying the top five positions of need for each team.

"Filling Gaps in the Mineral Cabinet" - Wikiedu (the educational arm of #Wikipedia) interviewed NDSU Mineralogy student Zoe M, having noticed our students' work over the years on creating Wikipedia articles on new #minerals.

Filling gaps in the mineral cabinet
In Wiki Education’s Wikipedia Student Program, students are assigned to edit a Wikipedia article on a course-related topic by their higher education instructor. For some students, they pick s…

What Ukraine needs for this to be the last year of the war. Ukraine in Flames #579: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/what-ukraine-needs.html

Who needs creativity when you’ve got fame? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/who-needs-creativity-when-youve-got-fame-0fb58jzkh

Who needs creativity when you’ve got fame?
The boom in books by stars with an online following shows we’ve lost respect for the essence of talent

The next European Commission needs to address information power
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-fedd5290-ae3eda855c609a2a
The next European Commission needs to address information powerAhead of a new European Commission, following June's …