A group called Make Textbooks Affordable asserts that textbooks should be offered inexpensively online and should meet the criteria affordable, inexpensive, and easy to print. These are all very worthy goals and publishers are going to have to explore how to make it happen.
Archive for August, 2008
Course Correction: How Digital Textbooks are Off Track and How to Set Them Straight
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008“Adam” lived around 200k years ago
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The Discovery channel news reports that the first homo sapiens lived approximately 200,000 years.
“The extraordinary findings, which will soon be outlined in a special issue of the Journal of Human Evolution devoted to the first known Homo sapiens, also reveal information about the material culture of the first known people, their surroundings, possible lifestyle and, perhaps most startling, their probable neighbors – Homo erectus.”
Church Attendance Boosts Student GPAs
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008LiveScience has an article that correlates church attendance with good grades.
Brief video introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sunday, August 17th, 2008The Israel Antiquity Authority has posted a brief introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was produced for a museum exhibition of the scrolls and appears to be a condensed version of a 1994 video.
Hebrew and Greek html keyboards
Friday, August 8th, 2008John Dyer has implemented simple Unicode html Hebrew and Greek keyboards.
Ancient Iran: Inside a Nation’s Persian Soul
Monday, August 4th, 2008 |
The August 2008 National Geographic magazine includes a cover story about the ancient Persian roots of modern Iran. Persia under Cyrus the Great gained control of the ancient Middle East, including Babylonia and Palesine, in the 6th Century BCE. Within the Persian Empire the refugee Judeans established Jewish institutions in Palestine after their return from Babylonian captivity. |