Linux Foundation events
This is a list of upcoming Linux foundation events.
EFF Job Opening
The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a job opening. Details in the embedded post below.
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Science Daily : Articles on Plastics and Polymers
The two articles were posted to Mastodon.
Firstly a look at the problem of Micro-plastics
Secondly an article on Polymers
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Science,#ScienceDaily,#Articles,#MicroPlastic,#Polymers,#Chemistry, #Plastics,#Research,#Mastodon,#SocialMedia,#TheYearOfTheFediverse
Growing Salt Crystals
Reposting this due to adding a link to a Science Forum post.
As Salt (Sodium Chloride) dissolves in water, you can grow salt crystals quite easily. There are lots of instructions on the internet, on how to do this with Salt, as well as other chemicals; such as, Alum (Aluminium Sulfate), Borax (Sodium Borate) for example.
For the purpose of my attempt, I used
*a conical flask from my old Chemistry set,
* a wooden lollipop stick,
* string
* paper clip (to hold the string in the solution)
This is illustrated in the first picture, while the 2nd is a photo of the resulting crystal formation.
Update 17/10/2021
I took more photos on the 4th October to illustrate further growth of the crystals
It is probably worth mentioning that table salt contains Sodium Chloride but also a Anti caking agent called Sodium Ferrycyanide which according to that wikipedia article is a yellow solid.
I am not sure if this somehow affects the growth or shape of the resultng crystals. At some point I should try the same experiment pure NaCl
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Paignton Library STEM Group – December 2021
The December STEM group meeting will take place on 11/12/2021. As with the first event, this will be a mix of coding, discussions and look at projects brought along to the event.
However we are hoping to :
- Help a student with testing a web based application (part of university project)
- Get an update on the project brought to us in November
- Start building a Micro:bit robot
Some of the Links below are related to the Paignton Code Club and the CV / Overleaf links are related to some of the discussions had, at code club on Saturday 4th December.
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Definitions
Having recently completed several courses, I am just making a quick summary of some key definitions from these courses.
Harassment [2]
Any unwanted, physical, verbal or non verbal conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating a persons dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.
Bullying [2]
Offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour involving misuse of power that can make a person feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, undermined or threatened.
Sexual Harassment [3]
Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature in a workplace, or other professional or social setting.
Protected groups under the 2010 Equality Act [4]
1 Sex 2 Race / ethnicity 3 Skin Colour 4 Language 5 Religion 6 Political or other opinion 7 National or social origin 8 Association with national minority 9 Property 10 Birth 11 Other status 12 Sexual orientation 13 Marriage / Civil Partnership 14 Gender reassignment
App;lies
- At work
- Education
- Consumer
- Public services
- Buying / renting property
- Member/ guest of a private club or association
Doing these courses is empowering, even more so when people at work FAIL to protect you and your right to go to work and be safe and free from harassment from others in any shape way or form.
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1 E-learning at work 2 Anti Harassment and Bullying 3 Sexual Harassment in the workplace 4 Equality and diversity 5 Disciplinary procedures 6. Teacher abuse in schools
Scismic webinar December
I am looking forward to the next Scismic webinar 'event next month is Maintaining Resilience During Your Job Search' in December.
**Date : ** 15th December
For details, please see the Scismic Website.
Which role models are best for STEM?
Just found this posted to Mastodon by Science Daily bot. May make interesting reading.
Citation info
Journal Reference:
Jessica R. Gladstone, Andrei Cimpian. Which role models are effective for which students? A systematic review and four recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of role models in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education, 2021; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s40594-021-00315-x
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Collaborative editing
One of the really great things about the Fediverse is that others are willing to chip in and help. I was working on another article for the Beach Hut [1]. As this was about Mastodon and the Fediverse. I asked for help.
Pasting a draft in to a Disroot [2] pad and then pasting a link in to mastodon so that others could collaborate editing, within an hour the article was pretty much completed with others users connecting and editing.
This was real time collaboration using free software and also open source software tools. The article will now be submitted for hopeful publication in the January 2022 issue.
You can find out more about Mastodon at [3].
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#Fediverse,#Disroot,#Collaborative,#Editing,#Mastodon, #TheYearOfTheFediverse,#Promotion
Big Blue Button 2.4 testing
I am in the process of helping to test Big Blue Button 2.4
This is going well and the improvements from 2.3 are welcome.
The faircam server will soon be running 2.4 once it is out of beta / testing and the test server will move to run the 2.5 beta / testing software.
It is quite nice when you find a problem and are able to report it, gives you a good feeling you have made a contribution to a wider project that is used all over the world.
I have actually made a suggestion on the developer forum for a feature that would be useful. So as with finding problems, making feature requests is also really good.
In most cases one of the the BEST thing you can do, is to let the developers know that the software works. I think this often gets overlooked, developers are human after all.
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