Places I’ve Been (to Nov. 2, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute‘The Zuckerberg Files’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education “The Zuckerberg Files’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO October 25, 2013, 7:19 pm By Marc Parry Comments (4) zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Oct. 5, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Sounds of Pink Floyd, Daft Punk and James Brown, Expressed in Flying Paint | Collage of Arts and Sciences tags: sounds pink floyd punk james paint arts MIT technology trailblazer is a critic of computerized learning | Hechinger Report … Continue reading

Open access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpen access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong via Open access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. This is a fairly accurate assessment of Open Access publishing. Where research is made … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Sept. 28, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteTake the Test: How Well Do You See Color? | Apartment Therapy tags: test colour graphics Origins of genomic ‘dark matter’ discovered “A duo of scientists at Penn State University has achieved a major milestone in understanding how genomic “dark … Continue reading

Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News : NPR

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSmart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News : NPR. We have long accepted that there are specific critical periods in animals as they grow up – we know a fair bit about how … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Sept. 21 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute“The Awful German Language” by Mark Twain “The Awful German Language by Mark Twain [This is Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad. This text is basically a HTML conversion of the plain ASCII e-text formerly found at … Continue reading

Video games becoming required coursework in schools – Technology & Science – CBC News

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesVideo games becoming required coursework in schools – Technology & Science – CBC News. Unfortunately, they got my institution wrong. I’ve got a request in to fix it, but I’ve had no response yet. Below is an edited excerpt (with … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Aug. 31 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteGenes Aren’t Just Architects; They’re Actors | David Dobbs’s NEURON CULTURE tags: genes architects actors Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading