links for 2007-08-29

• Venture capital to boost innovation in Arab world - SciDev.Net
  Two venture capital funds have been launched in Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to encourage innovation in science and technology and establish knowledge-based industry in the Arab world.
  (tags: R&D arab middle_east development venture_capital UAE)
• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
  (tags: ethics future cyborg)
• Neptune Undersea Observatory
  The goal of the NEPTUNE project is to establish a regional cabled observatory in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The Project’s 2,500-km network of fiber-optic/power cables will encircle and cross the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate in the northeast Pacific Oce
  (tags: blue_economy sensing science oceanography oceans)
• Scientists Create Their Own Web 2.0 Network With NanoHUB
  "NanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue University, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and applying them, along with a few tricks of its own, to further nano-scholarly pursuits."
  (tags: science social_software socialnetworking web2.0)
• Bill St. Arnaud
  "This blog is focused on... user controlled and managed processes that will have a profound effect on the way we do science, education and business over the Internet" such as "web services, service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies."
  (tags: blog internet research science web2.0 technology)
• The Reading and Riding Connection
  How NCLB ignores poverty
  (tags: poverty, learning, NCLB, education. VUCA)
• North-West Passage is now plain sailing | Environment | Guardian Unlimited
  "The North-West Passage – the sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally perilously clogged with thick ice – is nearly ice-free for the first time since records began."
  (tags: arctic northwestpassage north_pole climate_change)