Tag: education
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My delicious.com bookmarks for February 8th through February 9th
The rise and rise of the cognitive elite – "It seems unfair that footballers, bankers and tycoons earn more money than they know what to do with whereas jobless folk and single parents struggle to pay the rent, notes Mr Saunders. Yet it also seems unfair to take money from those who have worked hard…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for September 10th through September 16th
Pope adviser calls UK a Third World Country, deploys racism, then says atheists are aggressive – "The Vatican said the cardinal had not intended 'any kind of slight', and was referring to the UK's multicultural society." Well that's okay, then. (Not.) Why parents can’t do maths today – Article on how they teach arithmetic in…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for August 25th through August 27th
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy – Maybe the Internet isn't the end of literacy after all… Galileo’s telescope reaches 400th anniversary – "Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for February 17th through February 24th
These are my links for February 17th through February 24th: Does University Challenge really test intelligence? – No. Knowing a bunch of obscure facts isn't intelligence. If that's the measure, then Wikipedia is way smarter than Einstein or Newton or Gauss or Darwin. Review: Canon EOS 5D Mark II – If anyone wants to buy…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for February 7th through February 9th
These are my links for February 7th through February 9th: The League of Moveable Type – Most free or open source fonts I've seen have been pretty poor but these guys seem to have the right idea. Government plans travel database – "When your travel plans, who you are travelling with, where you are going…
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 12th through February 22nd
Behind the Scenes at the Bay Bridge Construction Site – I saw the construction going on a few times last year, but from a distance while driving past. Interesting to see what they're doing in more detail. Hand-wringing About American Culture – Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? – "Not only are citizens ignorant about essential…