Bundeswehr-Dozent: Plagiator gives back his doctorate - at least he's not being as silly as the last cases (especially Koch-Mehrin with her "but everyone already knew I copied" defense). But this idea that a revoked doctorate has no effect on a lecturer's career I find quite strange ...
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Plagiarism scandal: Doctoral supervisor distances himself from zu Guttenberg. Just as a question posed to the room (honestly, I don't know!): doesn't a doctoral supervisor read the doctoral thesis of their doctoral candidate?
Bishop demands creationism in biology class - Creationist nutjobs in Germany. Will surely find support from the Hessian education destroyer. This bullshit has no place in biology class. None. This sanctimonious act that one would advocate for multiple ideas and the fixation on only one idea is unscientific is simply nonsense.
Naked Objects in Virtual Life
Stupid title, I know. But that's exactly what the Linden Script Language (LSL) is - the programming language used to control objects in Second Life. Every virtual object is also a program object with its own methods that react to external events. Somehow, I can imagine that Second Life would be well suited for introducing event-oriented programming, as you can directly interact with the objects.
The physics simulation in the game is also exciting - because scripts also have access to it. This way, it directly offers an experimental platform for virtual robotics experiments and the visualization of simulations (or even directly experiential visual simulations - a complete virtual world).
One does wonder why a game developer has such ideas, and why many simulation environments for "serious" research come across as so boring. Perhaps scientists should make contact with game designers to liven up classrooms and labs a bit? Dealing with such topics is certainly much easier to convey in a playful way, especially because students might actually listen then ...