Friday, April 3, 2009

WashingtonWatch.com - H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

WashingtonWatch.com - H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: "H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (78 comments ↓ | 4 wiki edits: view article ↓)

H.R. 875 would establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination."

Thursday, April 2, 2009

An Interview with Michael Wesch | EDUCAUSE

An Interview with Michael Wesch | EDUCAUSE: "This podcast features our full thirty-minute interview with Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. In the past few years he has distinguished himself with unique perspectives on teaching and his use of multimedia in the classroom. In 2008 he was awarded the CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Doctoral and Research Universities. In this interview, Wesch talks about fame and micro-celebrity, teaching in the cloud, collective intelligence, and teaching in an age of budget cuts."