April 17, 2002 - Future Tenses’ Jon Gordon interviews Alex Ignatiev about why computers are such a pain to turn on and off. Firing up a computer, or rebooting it after a crash, takes longer than we'd like. But it could be a lot quicker if new technology from the University of Houston is a hit in the marketplace. Already, the school has licensed the technology to Sharp Electronics.
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April 11, 2002 - Scientists behind NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter are sharing some extraordinary new images with the public, images that could help determine whether life ever existed on the planet. Web surfers can get a daily, detailed image from the surface of Mars -- images of Martian dunes, lava flows, and layered rocks. The images, available at an Arizona State University Web site, come from a special camera aboard Odyssey called Themis. That's short for Thermal Emission Imaging System. Phil Christensen is professor of geological sciences at ASU, and principal investigator for the Themis project.
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March 22, 2002 - How effective is online education? This is Future Tense for March 22nd. I'm Jon Gordon. Internet-based instruction promises to free us from the restrictions of geography. But a new study finds that you might learn more in a traditional classroom. Michigan State University students who took a virtual micro economics class from professor Carl Liedholm performed worse on exams- ten percent worse - than those who attended Liedholm's live micro economics class. Liedholm says his study took into account and controlled for differences in SAT scores and GPAs for the two kinds of class. (q/a)
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