Here's a new YouTube channel from Nottingham University in the UK -- here, scientist-vloggers are in the process of posting a video for each element of the periodic table. Sort of " Mythbusters " meets chemistry, with real live awesome mad scientist hair . This combination of Open Source licenses for code and Creative Commons [ joi.ito.com ]
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(Disclaimer: the writer of this post should read, "American media: you suck at fact-checking." Iran's state-run media agency has been accused before of having digitally manipulated images released to foreign media. This week, as word spread of purported missile tests in Iran, the validity of an image of four missiles shooting into the sky turned out to be photoshopped -- but not before a bunch of big news organizations printed it as legit. From the NYT blog The Lede : On Wednesday, Iranian members of parliament voted to discuss a draft bill that seeks to “toughen punishment for disturbing mental security in society”.
Such discussion concerning blogs has not been unique to Iran. It shows that many authorities do not only wish to filter blogs, but also to eliminate bloggers!
A translated English copy of the proposed legislation is here .