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≡ Category: Science | ≅ 6 Comments
This chart comes from a new Pew Research Center study that looks at the worldwide acceptance of evolution 150 years after Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At least in the United States, only a minority of the public believes in evolution, largely because evangelical protestants (a large portion of the [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics, History | ≅ 2 Comments
Jared Diamond became a household name with his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs & Steel (2003). Later, the UCLA geographer climbed the charts again with Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005). Now, based on this last book, he’s putting odds on whether the United States will survive this crisis, and he’s putting [...]
≡ Category: Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s another good day for the open education movement. As part of an experiment, YouTube has partnered with a select number of universities (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke, and UCLA) to make lectures, courses and other videos available for free download. This gives educators and lifelong learners the freedom to watch educational videos offline, whenever and wherever they want, including [...]
≡ Category: e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick fyi: Mark Glaser at PBS’s MediaShift has just published a handy guide to e-books. It covers the history of e-books, the competing e-book readers, the pros and cons of working with e-books, what Google and Apple are now doing in this space, and more. Good stuff. Separately, I also wanted to flag a [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Perhaps you’ve pondered your own mortality. But have you ever imagined perishing as you fall into a black hole? Probably not. But if you’re intrigued by this admittedly unlikely scenario, then watch the clip above. Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist who heads up the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, breaks down the scene for you step-by-step [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
In case you needed a reminder, we’re no longer living in your grandfather’s world. This video makes that plainly clear. Everything is changing in a blink, and education offers you and your kids the best way to navigate it all. Don’t take it for granted. via The DigitalBlur. Thanks Jillian for the tip on this one. [...]
≡ Category: Religion, Science | ≅ 3 Comments
Is there “a philosophical incompatibility between religion and science. Does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of faith? Are the gaps between them so great that the two institutions must be considered essentially antagonistic?” These were the questions raised by Jerry Coyne, a professor at the University of Chicago, in a long [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 3 Comments
The new Treasury Secretary unveiled his plan this morning, and apparently the markets hate it, which pretty much guarantees that we’ll be living with our financial mess for a good while longer. As we know, this crisis could have been avoided. But greed got the better of us. So, I wonder what readers think when [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Law | ≅ 3 Comments
By now, everyone knows the famous Obama “Hope” poster produced by Shepard Fairey. Recently, Fairey has acknowledged that the poster was originally inspired by a photograph belonging to the AP Press, and now the AP is claiming that Fairey has infringed on its copyright and wants “payment for the use of the photo and a [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talked at last week’s TED Conference about writers, their “genius,” and the expectations that we place on it. I know that Gilbert — or at least her last book — has a lot of fans. And that’s why I’m posting this here. Personally, I’m not so much a [...]
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