Nice pictures — the wallpaper is cooler than Google’s rather sterile white background. I’m not much fond of the way Bing shows images, with some down the side when you check out another, but without any identifying data to help you figure out which ones to check out.
But I stumbled into a major problem: At least on DDT, Bing favors the Tinfoil Hat Brigades™, featuring crank science almost exclusively on the first page in my early searches, compared to Google’s pointing first to the hard science.
Importantly, this tells me that Bing is not safe to assign to students doing research.
Bing will bear watching all summer. Can they get it up to speed by the opening of schools in the fall?
DDT (from its trivial name, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is one of the most well-known synthetic pesticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT – Cached – Similar –
The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three decades of application during which time … http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm – Cached – Similar –
“We have the worst DDT hotspot in the entire US,” he said. “That we’re still stuck with this horrible legacy decades later is awful.” From 1947 to 1971, …
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday — nearly …
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_re_us/us_ocean_ddt – Similar –
by Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson – 2002 – Nature – 378 pages
Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters” (Peter Matthiessen,…
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Rachel Carson sounded the initial alarm against DDT, but represented the science of DDT… The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a … http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html – Cached – Similar –
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public… Seattle Times 23 hours ago
DDT (from its trivial name, d ichloro d iphenyl t richloroethane) is one of the most well-known synthetic pesticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, and controversial … Properties and chemistry · History · Environmental impact
In professional wrestling a DDT is any move in which the wrestler falls down or backwards to drive a held opponent’s head into the mat. The classic DDT is performed by putting the …
JunkScience.com spotlights and debunks faulty scientific data and analysis used to promote special agendas, such as those of activist groups, personal injury lawyers, regulators …
Exposure to DDT, DDE, and DDD occurs mostly from eating foods containing small amounts of these compounds, particularly meat, fish and poultry. High levels of DDT can affect the …
When people hear the word, “pesticides,” they often associate it with something very negative. And many times, they’ll soon think of DDT. DDT is one of the most famous pesticides …
DDT Ban Takes Effect [EPA press release – December 31, 1972] The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three …
DDT. The Wall Street Journal Endorses Use of DDT. The Wall Street Journal endorses using DDT on its Editorial Opinion page (8/16/07) stating: “Opponents of …
… insect pests; the term commonly refers to chemical agents only. Chemical Insecticides
….. Click the link for more information.. First introduced during the 1940s, it killed insects that spread disease and feed on crops. Swiss scientist Paul Müller was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering (1939) DDT‘s …
DDT or 2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1,1,-trichloroethane, chlorinated hydrocarbon compound used as an insecticide insecticides, chemical, biological, or other agents used to destroy …
The third entry goes to a wrestling maneuver, the fifth entry is the biggest crank science site. The ninth entry plunges back into crank science at its worst. This is much improved since I tried it last night and got nothing but crank science (Bing is improving quickly).
New logo and slogan for the Texas Historical Commission
A lot of photos from the sites the Historical Commission operates, news of special events, and links to the Commission’s sites’ websites. As yet there are not any substantive historical analyses.
The Sacramento Bee, one of America’s great newspapers which we hope can stay in business through these tough times, today put up a map of California unemployment, county by county. The map shows unemployment changes over the past year with an interactive slide that makes it great for classroom use in economics, but makes it impossible for me to embed here (it’s in Adobe Flash).
California’s unemployment is at about 11% statewide. Colusa County’s unemployment is 26.6%. Two counties away, in Marin County, it’s only 6.8%
California economics classes can use their knowledge of agriculture and industry in the state to make educated guesses about what is going on in each county. Surely there are uses the rest of us can find. Colusa and Imperial Counties are two of the hardest hit — with the internet, can your students tell what that is going to mean for prices on fresh produce and processed foods?
This is where computers and the internet step out ahead in the education tilts, with tools like this interactive map. Thank you, SacBee. Can you give teachers a download?
Dennis called him on the hoax. After a few rounds of weak defense, and then moral waffling of significant proportion, the hoaxer deleted the comments from his blog. Dennis preserved the conversation at TMB.
Moral of the story: Don’t believe much of what you hear or see, without corroboration. If a claim casts aspersions on someone, and comes on the internet, check it out before granting credence. Thanks to Dennis, an honest guy, for exposing the hoax and preserving the record of it.
Hoaxers are malicious and will do almost anything to damage Obama, even if it requires bringing down the U.S. and burning the flag. No wonder George Washington wanted out of this sort of politics.
Question: What’s the deal with the clock in the doctored photo? [Oh – it says “3:00 o’clock”]
Honor roll: Bloggers and others who exposed the hoax:
Trivial information and internet communication make for bandwidth-wasting and brain-numbing exchanges — friendly, maybe, but your spouse will consider filing papers.
Until it saves your kid’s life with a dramatic diagnosis of a deadly disease across an ocean.
[FireFox 3 doesn’t support the old video capture of VodPod; my apologies for sending you to the video, though sending someone to a BBC site is probably a great act of education.]
Spread the word; friends don't allow friends to repeat history.
Go check that site out. If it’s not a scam itself, it should be. Just what you were looking for, a “good service for check nigerian.”
Especially note the certificate from the “Global School of Detectives,” the membership in “World Association of Detectives” (yes: W.A.D.), and the certificate from the California Board of Collections and Investigatives Services (P.I.s in California now are licensed by the much newer Bureau of Security and Investigative Services). (See the images of the certificates below.)
If you ever post again, Levy, I swear I’ll send your name and address to both the Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Spread the word; friends don't allow friends to repeat history.
Ignoble Gases nicely describes the mashup between on-line mapping services and digital photography, with a bit of blogging thrown in.
Mapping services now have the capacity to link photographs of a site with its exact latitude and longitude, or exact address. Maps of cities can feature links to photos of the site (other than satellite or aerial photos) submitted by readers, and other descriptive material.
So, geography teachers: Have your kids mapped out your town and put it on the web to encourage tourism? Great discussion topics: What are the advantages of such technologies, and what are the parent-scaring disadvantages, or dangers of them?
Or, until that account is unsuspended by the forces supporting Donald Trump: Follow @FillmoreWhite, the account of the Millard Fillmore White House Library
We've been soaking in the Bathtub for several months, long enough that some of the links we've used have gone to the Great Internet in the Sky.
If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to that post, and tell us what link has expired.
Thanks!
Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control.
My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it.
BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah
Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona
JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
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