2007 – number 9 – Philosophy : A cosmic responsibility | The UNESCO Courier | ISSN 1993-8616UNESCO.ORG: Different approaches, varied concerns, but one certainty: philosophy can’t stay in its ivory tower. It provides a weapon against dogma and manipulation. And, to cite one of Jostein Gaarder’s ideas, philosophers have a cosmic responsibility. — Some interesting […]
Read MoreUniversity viewpoint: the University of Warwick on ‘The challenge of global education and research’ « GlobalHigherEd: The challenge of global education and research — Nigel Thrift writes on the new global education.
Read MoreYou Have No Choice – You Have Owners : You Have No Choice – You Have Owners —- this is pretty good other than the dumb presidential stuff in the slideshow.
Read MoreInternet Archive: Details: Communications Primer, A: Communications Primer, A — Ray and Charles Eames movie. It’s like powers of ten… but not.
Read MoreMAKE: Blog: Tesla coil super mario duet: Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla […]
Read MoreOpenDoc Society – Home: OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge – about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. Whether you are a developer, publisher, […]
Read MoreBug Labs: Products: BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don’t define the final products – […]
Read MoreGlamGuns.com! Guns for Girls and Glamorous Weaponry!: The Glambo Signature Series “Hello Kitty” HK-AK-47 —- one of the first posts on this blog was the hello kitty pistol. sadly that image is no longer linked, nor does it show up on the page that reverse cowgirl originally pointed to on “ladies weapons”. Of course you […]
Read MoreRush, Little Baby – The Boston Globe: Rush, Little Baby How the push for infant academics may actually be a waste of time – or worse. — My colleague jason… teaches this stuff….
Read MoreGustavo Dudamel – Classical Music – Los Angeles Philharmonic – New York Times: Across Venezuela the sistema has established 246 centers, known as nucleos, which admit children between 2 and 18, assign them instruments and organize them into groups with instructors. Typically practicing for two or three hours every day, the children are performing recognizable […]
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