September 30, 2007 – 12:50 pm
English literary tradition has produces a number of great works with which we should all be familiar. Schools are doing a good thing when their required reading list includes such works as Of Mice and Men, Moby Dick, Lord of the Flies, and, as much as I despised reading it, maybe even Jane Eyre.
But [...]
September 7, 2007 – 5:39 am
Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska University made a rather dramatic presentation at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in February 2006. I always appreciate good speakers (and writers), and his ability to make these kinds of statistics both entertaining and relevant is truly amazing. This video is a little long (20 [...]
We do find ourselves in challenging times. Our economy is changing rapidly. From agrarian to industrial to service-oriented to information-oriented all in just over a century. And what of this information?
Technology is placing unique requirements on people in the workplace, compelling [...]
Weary Parent’s group writing project asks what advice we were given as teens that we took to heart. Now, either my parents were not the advice giving sort or I really wasn’t listening because I do not remember a single piece of advice they ever gave me. I did, however, hear a frequent [...]
January 21, 2007 – 10:38 pm
I love the night sky. I used to spend hours gazing up at the stars, wondering what all was out there beyond what I could see, what brought it all about and just in awe at the majestic beauty of the night sky. I would stay up all night to see a meteor [...]
January 6, 2007 – 3:39 am
I haven’t done this in awhile, and appear to have some new readers, so I thought it was about time.
If you are not familiar with Truth Laid Bear, it is a blog with some interesting features, including various communities. One of these nifty communities happens to be the Homeschooling Community. NZ Bear is [...]
December 28, 2006 – 5:47 am
Back in the early 90’s, I remember sitting in a computer science class looking at the sidebar in my textbook. It discussed an interesting computer program that could “read” the human mind. After some initial training of human and programming of machine, the technology enabled the disabled person to “type” a simple letter [...]
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