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Education

Submission + - How To Go To MIT For Free

theodp writes: "Can't scrape up the bucks for junior college tuition? Don't worry, there's always MIT. By the end of 2007, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world thanks to OpenCourseWare (OCW). Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge."
Math

Submission + - Easier graphing with FooPlot

An anonymous reader writes: If you hate clunky graphing calculator interfaces or having to code in order to create a simple plot, here's a new web-based plotter. Based entirely on JavaScript using vector graphics, FooPlot supports scrolling like Google Maps and even does basic 3-D plots too. From the website, plans include developing it into "a fully-featured graphing calculator with analytic tools, charting with Google spreadsheets, curve-fitting, and saving into portable formats".
Power

Submission + - High altitude wind farms?

An anonymous reader writes: Why plant a rotor on the ground to generate electricity in fickle, turbulent surface winds? Here is a possible green-friendly solution that is far above any other in reality as well as in concept:

From the site: "Here we are with very high gasoline prices, now starting to pay real attention to global warming, and seriously considering nuclear fission, with all its dangers from both accident and terrorist attack, as the best potential solution. And yet the energy we need is only a few miles above us in tremendous quantity, it is clean, non global warming energy, potentially more economical than nuclear, and we are ignoring it."

A flying wind farm might just be the way to go to lower our reliance such energy producing staples as fossil fuels and their immediate pollution, the admittedly intermittent production from solar or ground-level winds, and the long-term storage concerns of nuclear waste.
NASA

Submission + - NFL cheerleader is also NASA engineer

A Smitten Rocket Scientist writes: As reported in Sports Illustrated, Summer Williams is a full time aerospace engineer who works on the International Space Station. But she's got a side gig as a cheerleader for the Houston Texans! The fantasy woman of Slashdot readers everywhere actually exists....
Programming

Submission + - Joining an OSS project

spiffcow writes: "I'm a programmer (primarily C/C++), and for the last year or so, I've had a job programming in ASP.NET. Needless to say, I'm not getting my programming "fix" at work. I'd like to work on an OSS project to keep my skills from getting too rusty, not to mention having something to show potential future employers in hopes that I can land a good C programming job. I'm somewhat unconcerned with what it is I work on, as long as 1.) the project is at least somewhat interesting, and 2.) the project actually needs my help. I've never worked on an OSS project before, and I think it's time I give it a try. Is there any listing of projects out there with positions to fill?"

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