Pendaftaran SNMPTN Dibuka

Pendaftaran seleksi nasional masuk perguruan tinggi negeri atau SNMPTN dibuka mulai Minggu (2/5/2010) secara online. Pendaftaran berlangsung mulai 2 hingga 31 Mei 2010 melalui situs web www.snmptn.ac.id. Adapun ujian tertulis akan berlangsung pada 16-17 Juni 2010. Selengkapnya ...

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Teknologi informasi dan perkembangan otak manusia

Sangat menarik untuk pendidik. Pernahkah Anda mendengar perbedaan struktur jaringan otak seorang musisi profesional, seperti Eby Giade berangkali atau yang lain dari seorang atletik profesional? Pernakah Anda mengenal istilah 'digital native' dan 'digital immigrant'? Sebuah hasil penelitian melaporkan bahwa anak yang sekarang yang tumbuh berkembang sebagai digital native atau asli generasi digital-kesehariannya selalu diisi dengan aktifitas yang identik dengan fasilitas digital seperti mengirim sms dan internet-memiliki jaringan otak yang lebih rumit dan kuat ketimbang kita yang tergolong generasi imigran digital-mengerti dan mengenal alat-alat digital seperti laptop dan hp setelah dewasa.

those who reported using the Internet regularly in their everyday lives showed twice as much signaling in brain regions responsible for decision-making and complex reasoning, compared with those who had limited Internet exposure.

Mungkin ini yang menjawab pertanyaan yang kadang terlontar dari mulut sebagian orang tua, "Kok anak-anak sekarang itu masih kecil-kecil udah pada cerdas ya? Pintar ya?" Tapi tunggu dulu, kita mesti hati-hati juga sebab jangan-jangan ini kerjanya orang-orang IT supaya produk digintalnya makin laku. Tapi tidak apa-apa juga sih kalau memang benar-benar produk itu baik untuk manusia dan bukan akal-akalan, apalagi kalau baik untuk perkembangan otak manusia.Namun demikian perlu tetap diingat bahwa dibalik sesuatu yang baik apabila berlebihan seringkali membawa dampak negatif yang tak terduga.

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Three Physicists Don't Expect Nobel Prize

2008 Nobel Prize for Physics go to 3 physics, an Japanese-American Yoichiro Nambu, 2 Japanese physicists for their discovery of tiny breaks in the symmetry of nature's fundamental particles that facilitate people to explain reason behind the universe existence and persistency. Amazingly, none of them has expected to win Nobel Prize. They only pursue their interests in physics. This is actually a noble value that plays an important role in keeping scientist to work for the sake of humanity.Yoichiro Nambu, of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, will receive half of the $1.4 million prize for work he did nearly half a century ago.

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Women achieves economic independence in a Iranian Way

Islam should be an underlying principle of every aspects of a Muslim, both man and woman. life. Unfortunately, the attitudes of several Muslim thinkers and Muslims in general do not show original creativity to develop practical ways of life that get along with Islamic values. They like to import everything from the West when they are facing social problems. They think that every problem that they have has its own answer in the West. This example is very clear in the field of women movement in several Muslim countries, like Indonesia., under the flag of feminism or gender study I think we must appreciate what the Iranian society initiate in their efforts to make Islam as their way of life. See this interesting news to think about their creativity. This news contains Western bias, but at least it can make you think and be more creative like Iranian society.

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Guardian Angels Are Here, Say Most Americans

More than half of all Americans believe they have been helped by a guardian angel in the course of their lives, according to a new poll by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion. In a poll of 1700 respondents, 55% answered affirmatively to the statement, "I was protected from harm by a guardian angel." The responses defied standard class and denominational assumptions about religious belief; the majority held up regardless of denomination, region or education — though the figure was a little lower (37%) among respondents earning more than $150,000 a year. More details ...

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