Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
Digital Opportunity Index (DOI): Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
Read MorePolicy Research Tool
Policy Research Tool: UNESCO is launching a new tool to support policy-making based on research results from international social and human sciences. — this is a cool tool. this post is also post 5900 according to the numbering system….
Read MoreGlobalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Science and Technology
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | UNESCO.ORG: This conference brought together decision-makers, academics, members of government, and leaders from various facets of civil society to discuss ways in which to better, and more directly, harness scientific and technological progress for the promotion of peace and sustainable development. Download publication – PDF
Read MoreMath Trek: Good Stories, Good Math, Science News Online, Nov. 10, 2007
Math Trek: Good Stories, Good Math, Science News Online, Nov. 10, 2007: Good Stories, Good Math Preschoolers who can tell good stories develop good mathematical skills by the first grade —- so to teach the next generation of mathematicians and scientists… the best thing we can do is tell them inspiring stories and fantasies.
Read MoreToo many students attend college
Too many students attend college: Too many students attend college —- I actually agree to some extent with this idea, but not the evidence presented here. I think people need time to explore and find something they are passionate about before they engage in college. Too many students enter college, I think, with an unpurposefulness, […]
Read Moremmm password security and dictionaries
This article and this article provide a basis of critique for people using 14 letter passwords in rc5 and assuming some sense of security. Hint is… it is not secure. It is not as bad as Microsoft using rot13, but it is close. Computing power and memory win against encryption. Given extensible memory and speed, […]
Read Moresecret to raising smart kids?
smart kids: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are. —- it can be very disempowering to be told you are smart, or smarter… what does that mean anyway? intelligence varies across too many dimensions to really make that claim too strongly as far as i’m concerned. there are […]
Read MoreContinental Philosophy » Blog Archive » E-Texts: Guattari, Molecular Revolution
Continental Philosophy » Blog Archive » E-Texts: Guattari, Molecular Revolution: Guattari, Felix. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (Peregrines). New York City: Puffin, 1984. —- this is a good resource to get started on for some of guattari’s work.
Read MoreFix Paris landmark's clock
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited: “The Latin Quarter is where the concept of human rights came from, it’s the centre of everything. The Panthéon clock is in the middle of it. So it’s a bit like the clock at the centre of the world.” —- this is the […]
Read MoreYouTube – National Anthem Fenway Park
YouTube – Nationl Anthem Fenway Park: National Anthem Fenway Park —- the beauty of this is that the crowd kicked in and supported this young gentleman’s song.
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