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Life Inside a Cell
Roland Piquepaille writes "Harvard University has decided to use animations as a tool to enhance the performance of its students in biology. And it selected XVIVO's animation studio to take Harvard University students on a 3D journey. Among other realizations, the company delivered an eight minute animation titled 'The Inner Life of the Cell,' which was presented at Siggraph 2006 in a condensed form. This extraordinary animation explores 'the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus.' Harvard University expects a performance improvement of its biology students of almost 30% by using such visualization tools."
Why won't they they release fucking Flash 9 for Linux? Grrrrrr
What constitutes 30% improvement when you're already giving out 90% "A"s?
I just hope they do something to make it free for school and educational use, I know a lot of science teachers who would love to integrate this into their curriculums.
*shameless plug*
The scary thing is, after playing with a proscope (http://www.proscopehr.com/) the other day, I was able to actually see the capillary action in my own finger.
You know, with the number of us who post on every single fucking roland spam article bitching, you'd think the slashdot editors would give us a way to filter them. Then again, taking the time to read the thread and bitch about roland means slashdot is getting more advertising dollars from us.
Actually, I would imagine the problems with inserting a whole layer of filtering to the section article selection would be problematic.
I am also sure that if you wanted to have a try yourself at implimenting the code within slash they would gladly accept and consider any carefully thought out patches you would like to submit.
I don't care where the articles come from and tbh I don't care if slash pays him all I know if Roland is some kind of 24/7 internet roving geek who just has a REALLY good knack at digging up interesting things.
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