Month: October 2013

  • classicgranto: Maslow’s Updated Hierarchy of Needs

  • jtotheizzoe: Statistics Through Dance Understanding statistics is hard. But understanding statistics is also very important. Not only could it get you a sweet job at a place like Google, but it could help you understand whether a medical treatment is worth the risk or whether that one Malcolm Gladwell book is really full of crap or…

  • heydusty: Pure Nobility on Flickr.

  • Let’s imagine that the top tier of higher education is actually not in the business of selling education. Instead, they are in what I would term the “talent identification” business. The real payoff for universities comes not from selling courses but rather from finding and nurturing talent and then waiting for payback in the form…

  • The general form of this idea is “STEAM” — STEM Art. There is a growing community suggesting that we need to teach students about art and design, as well as STEM. Here, I am asking the question: Is Art an avenue for productively introducing STEM ideas? Live coding as a path to music education —…

  • Live coding as a path to music education — jwfk&rا(

    published on Computing Education Blog // visit site Live coding as a path to music education — and maybe computing, too We have talked here before about the use of computing to teach physics and the use of Logo to teach a wide range of topics. Live coding raises another fascinating possibility: Using coding to…

  • its B Dell: Playing to tape.

    its B Dell: Playing to tape. itsbdell: We spent 3 days this past week recording our second EP as a band. We worked with the same engineer and in the same studio as the previous one, but the experience was vastly different. A lot of that can be attributed to progress. More time playing together.…

  • W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web’s standards, says it’s OK for your browser to say

    W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web’s standards, says it’s OK for your browser to say Here’s the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their owners and to keep secrets from them so…

  • Kreigspiel – The Game of War

    Download RSG’s version of Guy Debord’s le Jeu de la Guerre (the Game of War) for Mac Windows and Linux. Debord’s version was exhibited at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris in the exhibition ‘Guy Debord: Un Art de la Guerre’ this summer. A full gallery of images from the exhibition is available here.

  • iloveoldmagazines: Popular Science 1977 Vol. 211, No. 4