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≡ Category: History, iPad, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
The new Fotopedia Heritage app for the iPhone and iPad lets the world come to you. (Download here.) Drawing on 20,000 curated photos taken by thousands of photographers from the Fotopedia community, this FREE app lets you visit (at least virtually) 890 UNESCO World Heritage sites. In a matter of minutes, you can move from Notre Dame [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Religion | ≅ 22 Comments
No one debates quite as well as an Oxford professor. And so today we feature two Oxford profs – atheist biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian mathematician John Lennox – debating God and science in … of all places … Birmingham, Alabama. The debate turns largely on a question raised in Dawkins’ 2006 bestseller, The God Delusion: [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
What happens when you study science in a scientific way? When you apply scientific methods to science itself? When you put science under its own microscope and ask, “What is science really all about?” These are some of the fundamental questions that the CBC program Ideas tackles when it spends 24 hours interviewing historians, sociologists, [...]
≡ Category: Life, Religion | ≅ Leave a Comment
Christopher Hitchens hasn’t turned inward since his cancer diagnosis in June. Nor, as some might have anticipated, has he budged from his atheist views outlined in his 2007 bestseller God Is Not Great. And if you hear rumors of an eventual deathbed conversion, don’t believe them. That’s the message he passes along to Anderson Cooper [...]
≡ Category: Math, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Michal Levy takes John Coltrane’s classic, “Giants Steps,” and interprets it through flash animation. We have posted a YouTube version above, but you should ideally watch this brilliant clip on Levy’s web site here. This is not the first time that “Giant Steps” has been animated. Last year, we highlighted a popular video that makes [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ Leave a Comment
A little bit of nerdgasmic fun for you. In 1977, Bruce and Katharine Cornwell used a Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal to create animated short films that demystify geometry. The films have now reemerged on the Internet Archive. Journey to the Center of a Triangle appears above. You can also watch Congruent Triangles, which features the memorable ‘Bach [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, Online Courses | ≅ 11 Comments
Always good to see another major university making a contribution to the open course movement. The Open Learning Initiative undertaken by the Harvard University Extension School now offers eight free courses. This cluster of courses – the first Harvard has put forward – covers a nice range of topics. They feature some heavy-hitting members of [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Poetry | ≅ 2 Comments
As he neared the end of his life, Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986) offered his thoughts on the “task of art,” essentially distilling 80+ years of wisdom into a few pithy lines. He says: The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
In June, a group of San Francisco-based designers and engineers launched a balloon into near space, capturing the flight with two cameras that went along for the ride. Two hours into the flight, and at 80,000 feet of altitude, the balloon gives up the ghost and comes crashing back down to Earth. It all happens [...]
≡ Category: Education, Technology, Web/Tech | ≅ 1 Comment
Harvard University has now released version 2.0 of OpenScholar, an open source software package that lets scholars build personal and project-oriented web sites in a matter of minutes. It’s a quick, easy, and free solution (minus one meaningful caveat below) that allows academics to build an online home for their “CV, bio, publications, blogs, announcements, [...]
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