Category: words

  • cinoh: The book

  • youcantbuyland: cxrunup: This is a repost from fellow cx-er Greg Keller out of Boulder Cyclocross. I wrote this to my fellow employees, and wanted to share it with you. I like every one of you are simply trying to process. Perhaps in some small way this will help you.  “Five years ago, I sat in…

  • for @tweaver_biotica

  • explore-blog: On the heels of culling history’s finest meditations on the nature of creativity, PBS Off Book turns to those of the present: We see a neuroscientist testing Graham Wallace’s seminal 1926 theory of the four stages of creativity; we get a reminder that everything is a remix and nothing is truly original; we hear the…

  • listening to Martin Espada read his poetry. amazing!

  • 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…

  • 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.…