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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games.

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Human 2.0

Learning with 'e's

Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. 2003) Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. 2010) You are not a Gadget. Heart pacemakers, valves and other forms of technology implant or merger might be. Haraway, D.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. The University of Iowa rose from sixtieth in 2008 to a peak of thirty-ninth in 2010, but has since fallen back to forty-ninth. Ohio State dropped from tenth to twentieth, Missouri from seventy-first to eighty-fifth.