Professor Mitra is suggesting an innovative way to bring education to the millions of children who have no schools and no teachers. The idea is to provide them with tools to teach themselves, in the form of Self Organised Learning Environments. “A self-organising system is one where the system structure appears without explicit intervention from outside the [...]
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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 [...] I’m looking forward to reading Leap, based on what I’ve read so far at the Blog of Tim Ferriss. According to Leap, Bill Gates and many other seemingly crazy entrepreneurs didn’t really risk much at all when they started their companies. They took calculated risks and leveraged opportunities while simultaneously working their arses off. I never new that Mary [...] Nine years ago — time sure does fly. Now he’s blogging, and his latest post is not for the faint [...] Terri Vruggink has posted a sampling of the photos she did for our family this summer on her blog. I was skeptical when Holly first suggested we do this. Now I stand corrected, and amazed at how a talented photographer was able to make our family look pretty [...] Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point”, and “Blink”, wrote this article for the New Yorker back in 2004: http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html As is usually the case with Malcolm’s writing, his perspective on the SUV phenomenon is unique, informative, [...]  WGVU has posted a video documentary of Gerald Fords life, including interviews with Peter Sechia, Jennifer Granholm, Henry Kissinger, and former President Bush.  President Ford will be remembered for his integrity, leadership and humility. He helped end the Vietnam war and heal the country.  Stephen Colbert has coined yet another word that will soon become a part of your vocabulary: Wikiality. Earlier this year he turned heads with is addition of “Truthiness” to the global lexicon. In my humble opinion there is a degree of truthiness in Stephen’s definition of wikiality. We are indeed entering a new phase of consensus building via Blogs, Wikis (in [...] This article is from the (RED) edition of The Independent, guest-edited for 16 May 2006 by Bono. Half the revenue from the edition will be donated to the Global Fund to Fight Aids. Published: 16 May 2006 May I say without guile, I am as sick [...] Since this is the 36th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State, I thought I would link to this article about an incident that occurred several days after the shootings, in which a drunken motorist ran his car into a group of peace protesters marching from MSU to the capital in Lansing. “A motorist injured 10 young people when he swerved [...] |
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