Openpedia.org > Time to Re-write Our Science Textbooks -- AGAIN

http://brianmull.com [Brian Mull] About two weeks ago, Clarence Fisher told us that we would need to re-write our science textbooks because of the discovery of three new planets. Well...

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Msnbc.msn.comhttp://msnbc.msn.com [Msnbc.msn.com] It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki - Enterprise Technology - MSNBC.com: He has no full-time employees and no formal funding like venture capital, but this year he's raised $100,000 in small donations from Wikipedia's fans that will pay for the servers that host the site. He's also expanding into projects like the Wiktionary (a dictionary and thesaurus), Wikibooks (textbooks and manuals) and Wikiquote (quotations).

http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com [Jennifersaylor.wordpress.com] Jennifer Saylor, Freelance Writer » Rewrite the textbooks!: the rise of email, of PCs and blogs and the wired way we live and work now. But I’ve never seen a chunk of human culture changed by technology, not like this, not that I can recall.

[Blog.jimmywales.com] Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is based on a very radical idea, the realization of the dreams most of us have always had for what the Internet can and should become. Thousands of people, all over the world, from all cultures, working together in harmony to freely share clear, factual, unbiased information…

Ysearchblog.com[Ysearchblog.com] Yahoo! Search blog: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and Yahoo!: Putting aside the usual retorts against anti-Wikipedians (take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections for that), I believe I speak on behalf of many of the most dedicated contributors of Wikipedia when I say that we greatly value Yahoo's contribution, not only for the improved user experience it will offer readers here and abroad, but for how it will encourage Asians to take a more active part in becoming contributors to Wikipedia, particularly the Japanese and Chinese Wikipedias. Perhaps this exposure to knowledge and this glimpse of a true gift economy will also demonstrate to those under an oppressive government the promises that have gone unfulfilled.

http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com [Ragesoss 2.02] Free at last (sort of): Because we still don't for-sure have an early-modernist on the faculty and I can't do both "Early-Modern Science" and "History of the Physical Sciences" with Ole, my fields are still up in the air. However, I may have found someone to supervise a field in "Science Fiction and Science Writing." If that works out, I'll split the cream of the early-modern crop into the Physical and Biological fields, and my four fields (~50 books each, though the Sci-Fi & Science Writing field might need to be much larger if it consists siginficantly of primary sources) will be:

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