Khan Academy

Over the past several months, my 10 year old has been spending his free time teaching himself advanced math — thanks in part to Salman Khan, who has published 1,200 educational videos on YouTube. Salman quit his job as a hedge fund manager and donated his time to the cause of educating the world. Every day there are 10,000 students watching these videos [...]

Michael Pollan at MSU

We saw Michael Pollan speak at MSU last night. This article does a good job of summarizing his talk at Tufts, which looks like it was very similar to the one we heard at MSU: http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2009/04_1/features/01/.

He caught me off guard with his criticism of nutritional science: “Nutritional science is fascinating, but sort of where surgery was [...]