- ‘Alex Fradera and Edmund Harriss explain how theatrical techniques can help improve communication skills, inspire collaboration and build a sense of community in mathematics students’
- The reality of being here « After the Woods and the Water
- Kids Today Are Not Inattentive
- My new google search technique is unstoppable
- North Carolina senate tries to outlaw climate model which predicts exponential sea level rise
- ‘The graduates of 2012 will survive only in the cracks of our economy’
- ‘The paranoiac and mistrustful elements of creationism, and its stubborn rejection of the good faith of authority, are aspects of a much more general attitude towards society. Creationists look at scientists the way the world now looks at bankers.’
- The Setup: What do people use to get stuff done?
- Cosma on Red Plenty: ‘In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You’
- Lessons learned from MIT’s first free, Internet-based course
- in which Dan helps realists widen their definitions
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One reply on “Links for summer 2012”
I really enjoyed the Cosma article. This is an exposition of the same ideas, but without the regret and the maths:
http://www.fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/