"MaryL" <stancole1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Robert Miles" <robertmiles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "MaryL" <stancole1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Howard Lester" <hlester@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "Frieda" wrote
>>>>
>>>>> How many days to go before the BIG DAY?
>>>>
>>>> TWO, Frieda! :-) Today is a special day, though: I've reached the
>>>> magic 30 year mark. The next two days are "courtesy" days...
fini****ng
>>>> working out the week. I've already cleaned out and taken home most
of
>>>> my belongings; I'm almost ready!
>>>>
>>>
>>> I missed the earlier messages, but it looks like we made the same
>>> life-changing decision...except that mine came later in life. I
retired
>>> at the August after 41 years of teaching at the same university. The
>>> department chair asked if I would teach a couple of cl***** as an
>>> adjunct, and I may do that. He said I could set my own schedule and
>>> pick my own cl*****..."anything you want, he said." So, that sounds
>>> pretty good. The pay isn't very good for an adjunct, but it would be
>>> only part-time and supplement my retirement income. And I could
>>> continue to use my skills (such as they are).
>>>
>>> MaryL
>> You could use that as an op****tunity to get the students to start
>> participating in the bird-related newsgroups.
>>
>> Also, you might want to tell the students about some of the distributed
>> computing projects, likely to affect birds, such as:
>>
>> http://climateprediction.net/
>>
>> There's also a climate-related project here, but currently inactive:
>>
>> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
>>
>> This one maintains a database comparing all the proteins they can find
>> enough information on, including those found in birds, but is typically
>> active only about a week each month:
>>
>> http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
>>
>> The ones interested in helping medical research may want to look
>> at these:
>>
>> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
>>
>> http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
>>
>> http://www.malariacontrol.net/
>>
>> These allow you to run programs in the background on your computer,
>> but at a lower priority than what you start yourself. They all use
>> BOINC,
>> which allows a computer to help more than one of them without
>> interference.
>>
>> Many, but not all, of the teams are set up for people at specific
>> universities, so you may want to mention which of them have a team
>> for your university, or look for a team meant for birdwatchers in
>> general.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, Robert. Those are interesting sites, and I am interesting in
> looking into some of them for my own reference. As far as using it for
my
> students, though . . . I teach political science, so it would be a real
> "stretch" to incor****ate that into my cl*****. When I said I could
select
> my own cl*****, I really meant *within* the political science
discipline.
>
> MaryL
If any politics connected to global warning comes up, I'd still mention
the ones on climate prediction.
I don't think I've found any others significantly related to politics.
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