Graduation versus Learning. People don’t want to learn they wan’t to graduate. This isn’t their fault. In fact its ours. If we wanted people to learn we’d tell them to go read wikipedia, read the bible, read the works of shakespeare, read Jung, Popper, Knuth, Shirkey, Taleb, Buddah, Confuscius, Kawasaki, Seuss, Ellroy, Dawkins, Poe, De [...]
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Twitter is completely stupid. Celebrities use it so you know its very, very stupid. Numerous studies in the respected scienticifc journal Celebrity Cerebrums have noted the inverse correlation between ego and brain size. Scientists have proved that certain celebrities are not actually alive according to their projected brain size and [...]
Update: I put the wrong link in earlier to the GM script, oops!
Putting a large cohort of students into specific Moodle groups can be tedious and error-prone (if you need specific students in specific groups).
I’ve written a Greasemonkey script to help assign specific people to groups in Moodle. It simply hides people already assigned to [...]
I was in a meeting very recently. In a discussion on promotional material bookmarks were suggested. Some thought that this would not exude a high tech image. One wag referred to them as “anti-social bookmarks” with a wry smile. The bookmarks idea did have a nice ring to it though. It’s retro and bookmarks are [...]
Goolge’s new browser, called Chrome, is seriously fast. It renders some pages much more quickly, such as gmail (surprise, surprise). Indeed most pages are loading like lightening for me with Google’s new browser compared to FireFox, Internet Explorer, Flock or even Opera or Safari which are both fast. A good thing surely?
Well I’ve been thinking [...]
Via iAlja on twitter I heard about the TED talk on crows by Joshua Klein. I am fascinated by crow intelligence and I found this talk incredible.
It shows a very cool video of a Caledonia crow fashioning a wire hook to use as a tool. It talks about crows who follow Swedish fishermen to steal [...]
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There are not two sides to every story. Sometimes there is only one:
Smoking is bad for you
Climate change is happening, caused by human activity
Both these one-sided stories started out with two sides.
On the other hand some stories do have two sides but you only hear one. Probably because the [...]
The economist this week reports a study which found that the black rat actually comprises several distinct species. Apparently this will be useful for devising better rat eradication strategies.
It is the brown rat that is used by scientists. Mice are used in genetic research but rats are often used in experiments into things like learning. [...]
