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Transcribe Museum Records to Take Notes from Nature | calling all citizen scientists
Thomas Jefferson, lifelong citizen scientist, would have loved this new effort by the University of Virginia! Just think how much participants will learn about the world’s biological collections while helping with this project: This is where you come in: the Notes from Nature transcription project is a citizen science platform built to address this problem…
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FLASH! Seminars and OpenGrounds UVA | So much to learn, so many ways to get involved!
FLASH! Seminars One time mini-classes that bring together faculty, students, and community members in small, informal settings to explore ideas and issues outside the formal classroom. Seminars are announced a week in advance and held in locations around UVA and Charlottesville. Website OpenGrounds OpenGrounds Studio brings together students, professors, scientists, artists and community members to collaborate,…
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For the Masses: U.Va. Offering 11 MOOCs This Academic Year
Know Thyself this spring was a great experience. This year’s offerings from UVa Coursera make it hard to choose! I am sure they will all be
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Week 10 – Know Thyself | An end but also a beginning
Thank you, Professor Green and all those at UVa who worked so hard to produce this superb MOOC! This is my final post for this course, but just the beginning of the newest “me” …
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Week 9 – Know Thyself | Maybe dementia has no “self” to steal
Today I am fine, and I will enjoy this moment! If we have no “selves” to lose, perhaps living in the present rather than dwelling on the past
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Week 8 – Know Thyself | My Scores | Different lives or different persons?
Sometimes it seems to me that I have been a very different different person at different times. — Or have I just lived several different lives? There is much food for thought in the lectures for this week! I do have memory links
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