Proprietary data formats may be legally defensible but open standards can be a better spur for innovation.

Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Foreword by John Seely Brown

La Fondazione Progetto Legalità in memoria di Paolo Borsellino e di tutte le altre vittime della mafia è nata il 28 febbraio 2005, ereditando scopi e attività dal Progetto Legalità: una serie di iniziative portante avanti nelle scuole dall'Associazione Nazionale Magistrati – sezione distrettuale di Palermo.

Reports by FEMA and NIST lay out the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. In this Letter, we wish to set a foundation for productive discussion and understanding by focusing on those areas where we find common ground with FEMA and NIST, while at the same time countering several popular myths about the WTC collapses.

Investigators monitoring air quality at the World Trade Center, after the September 11th attacks, found extremely high levels of volatile organic chemicals as well as unusual species that had never been seen before in structure fires. Data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicate striking spikes in levels of benzene, styrene, and several other products of combustion. These spikes occurred on specific dates in October and November 2001, and February 2002. Additionally, data collected by researchers at the University of California Davis showed similar spikes in the levels of sulfur and silicon compounds, and certain metals, in aerosols. To better explain these data, as well as the unusual detection of 1,3-diphenylpropane, the presence of energetic nanocomposites in the pile at Ground Zero is hypothesized.

Pubblichiamo di seguito per la rubrica di Bioetica l'intervento della dottoressa Chiara Mantovani, Presidente dell'Associazione Medici Cattolici Italiani (AMCI) di Ferrara e Presidente di Scienza & Vita di Ferrara.

This article is a compilation of books recommended by sci.physics participants as the "standard" or "classic" texts on a wide variety of topics of general interest to physicists and physics students. As a guide to finding the right book for you, many of the comments from the contributors have been retained.