Last week I watched a video from Laurie Kirk, ȧ Google employee who creates some great content online under the name LaurieWired. The video looked at some of the more interesting recent advancements in computing, with one segment talking about new CPU schedulers for Linux that run in user space rather than kernel space:
A significant update came about this week, as ISTA and the Safer Sex-Positive & Spiritual Communities (3SC) issued a joint statement about the completion of the mediation process they had been working through.
In Homeopathy news, Edzard Ernst, retired academic physician and specialist in complementary and alternative medicine (and skeptic hero) has created a “challenge for all homeopaths of the world”. In a similar way to the James Randi Educational Foundation's one million dollar paranormal challenge, Ernst has come up with a scientific way for homeopaths to “prove” their worth. What entrants need to do is identify the contents of 6 homeopathic solutions that they have chosen, but that have been transferred into containers marked 1 – 6 by a notary and sent back to them.
Georgian College in Toronto has cancelled a course in homeopathy, due to negative feedback.
Martin Bridgstock considers a major work, which gives us all some astonishingly good news
The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is gaining a reputation as a Mickey Mouse government organisation that harms the reputation and integrity of New Zealand's tertiary institutions.