Children Play Like Scientists Work | Wired: Science …according to a new research project at MIT and Stanford University. The findings, which were published in the journal Cognition, reveal how 4- and 5-year-olds approach games methodically. … “This study does not establish whether children understood the importance of isolating variables initially or whether they inferred [...]
deadpan: Dictionary.com Word of the Day marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment. [What? I love this word. -L] Time Capsule: The Internet in 1995 | Open Culture • by Sheerly Avni On January 27, 1994, the Today Show ran a hilarious segment trying to unravel this crazy new [...]
Bigwords App Launched for Android, Treat for College Students | AndroidGuys • by Asad Rafi …for college students looking to buy or rent new and used paper books and electronic books… > education Iceland Unveils Crowdsourced Constitution | Mashable! • by Todd Wasserman A group of 25 citizens presented a draft of the constitution to [...]
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Brown Chops Down Marijuana Eradication Program – The Bay Citizen State eliminates money for agents who remove pot plants from parks (Plus: videos and slideshow) > california war_on_inanimate_objects The commons as an antidote to relentless growth | Energy Bulletin * Commons reduce money-induced growth because they make us more independent of money. The more we [...]
Again, a club says it’s being targeted because of customers’ race – JSOnline Milwaukee nightclub owner Robert Cesarz called to accuse the city of trying to shut down his business. “If you want a real story about racism in downtown Milwaukee, I’ve got one for you!” he said in a voice mail. After hearing he [...]
BBC News – Alvin Hall: The generation poorer than their parents BBC News – Spotify sued over music streaming technology BBC News – In Steinbeck’s footsteps: America’s middle-class underclass BBC News – Huge Arctic fire hints at new climate cue BBC News – Hollywood producer Polly Platt dies at 72 BBC News – US economy: [...]
Eurofail – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman For some reason events in European bonds markets aren’t making big headlines. But they should be: even as the GOP does its best to destroy America’s credit, things are falling apart, with a vengeance, on the other side of the Atlantic. Conservative Origins of Obamacare – NYTimes.com Here’s a [...]
Not Leveling with Viewers | Talking Points Memo • by Josh Marshall …the conventions of journalistic ‘objectivity’, as currently defined, frequently make journalists violate their biggest duty, which is honesty with readers. The top headline running now on CNN reads: “They’re all talking, but no one is compromising, at least publicly. Democratic and GOP leaders [...]
BBC News – China struggles to censor train crash coverage The Most Brilliantly Pointless Street Flyers | Happy Place Why wasn’t this in the Ten Commandments? | Pharyngula This looks like a really good rule. “Do not allow others to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any [...]
Death Star PR: An Open Letter to Google re: the “Fictionality” of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Dear Goo,Can we call you that, Google? You seem like the type of innovative multinational IT-based corporation who is playful, easygoing and enjoys a good nickname. We’re writing to you because over the weekend you made a horrible [...]
BBC News – UK GDP figures show slower growth of 0.2% BBC News – Connecticut mountain lion ‘crossed US’ before death BBC News – Early birth stress disorder link BBC News – Calorie counts on menus ‘prompt healthy choices’ BBC News – Congressman David Wu quits amid ‘unwanted sex’ scandal [What, we can't even write [...]
Lies About Race: Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s a reason questions about ethnicity on the census and college applications feel impossible to an increasing number of Americans. There’s a reason you can be [...]
Black Hole Holds Universe’s Biggest Water Supply | Wired: Science Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined. > science astronomy Brain [...]
Debt-Ceiling Speech Transcript: Obama Warns of a Dangerous Game BBC News – China sovereign wealth fund sees returns of 11.7% BBC News – Deutsche Bank’s profits hit by eurozone’s debt woes BBC News – Tests claim few benefit claimants ‘unfit to work’ BBC News – IMF head Lagarde warns ‘clock ticking’ on US debt deal [...]
BBC News – Venezuela hero Simon Bolivar ‘death tests’ inconclusive BBC News – Guatemala Las Dos Erres civil war massacre trial begins BBC News – The great teddy bear shipwreck mystery BBC News – ‘How an elephant changed my life’ BBC News – Hrant Dink murder: Turk Ogun Samast jailed BBC News – MPs in [...]
Palestine, Israel, the U.N., and America’s attempted Quartet sophistry by Daniel Levy | The Middle East Channel As more information seeps out from the Quartet principals meeting held in Washington on July 11, it becomes harder not to reach the conclusion that American policy on Israel-Palestine is now being driven almost exclusively by a desire [...]
Embodied Cognition | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • by Robert A. Wilson and Lucia Foglia Cognition is embodied when it is deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, when aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain play a significant causal or physically constitutive role in cognitive processing. In [...]
Black Journalists Question Plans by MSNBC to Hire Al Sharpton Pointing out that he and MSNBC have not yet consummated a deal, the Rev. Al Sharpton responded to black journalists questioning his credentials for an MSNBC hosting gig in an exclusive interview with The Root. Sharpton emphatically stated that he is an advocate, not a [...]
BBC News – UK firm agrees to pay compensation to Peruvian farmers BBC News – Berlin’s guerrilla gardeners cultivate rebellion BBC News – Large Hadron Collider results excite scientists BBC News – How a young Murdoch fought his early battles, and won Wallenstein Is Dead – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic On reading this, I [...]
Playing With Media is a Great Blog and eBook About Remixing Media | Free Technology for Teachers 7 Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Outlines Online – Free Technology for Teachers What You Said: Do You Use a Dedicated Todo List App? – How-To Geek How to Survive a Promotion * Identify a couple of [...]