“Why buy a Vermeer when a Metsu is available?” Adriaan E. Waiboer, curator of northern European art at the National Gallery of Ireland, repeats that odd sounding question in the […]
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In a guest post today, Samantha Miller digs deeper into understanding the nature of labeling in the organic food market. Miller is a graduate student in Journalism at American University. […]
You’ve probably heard of the trend among America’s city dwellers to grow their own food, but you probably haven’t heard of urbanites raising their own livestock. In a guest post […]
Smaller-budget documentaries are increasingly shaping debate over energy issues, writes Michael Nagle in a guest post today. Yet widening the scope of their reach and impact has taken some investment […]
The world’s leading particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has yet to find any evidence of certain particles that physicists depend on to explain our subatomic world.
The director of An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for “Superman” reflects on how life’s path has a strange and wonderful way of catching up with us—no matter where we go.
Will we gain our immortality as algorithms in the global human brain? The idea of the coming Singularity does sound nutty when it is stated so blatantly, argues Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier.
In a guest post today, Samantha Miller probes the relation between perceptions and reality in the organic food marketplace. Miller is a graduate student in Journalism at American University. She […]
The life code (the famous A, G, T, and C of DNA) will be as important to the next generation as digital code (0’s and 1’s) is now.
The personal computer has been around for about 30 years. For most of us, the Internet has been around for about 10 years. And yet we still have a sizable […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on marketing. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, here’s […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on demographic shifts. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on educational gaming. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on data-driven decision-making. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on teaching and learning. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few […]
n Looks like the old Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30 maxim that was popular during the rebellious 1960’s has been re-mixed by Baby Boomer Silicon Valley venture capitalists to become […]
Though bold predictions have been made in the past about ending cancer, we are still years away from a cure for cancer, if such a thing even exists. But advancements in prevention and detection are revolutionizing the way cancer is treated.
After reading the David Brooks New York Times column that lauded the courage and guts of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan to actually put together an “adult” congressional budget, one that […]
Two girls post a cartoon video on YouTube that depict “The Top 6 ways to Kill Piper!” Piper is an elementary school classmate of theirs at Elk Plain School in Spanaway, Washington. […]
I don’t know how Will Richardson came across these pictures of the Detroit Public School Book Depository, but I can’t get them out of my head so I’m sharing them […]
Only 2% of the 3 billion DNA base pairs in the human genome actually code for proteins, but the rest of our non-coding genes are proving vital to understanding a host of diseases like autism and schizophrenia.
Here is Part 3 of my notes from our day with Will Richardson. You also can see the live chat and/or follow the Twitter conversation and/or participate in EtherPad. We started […]
This map, distributed in France in the last year of the First World War, uses a trope common to a lot of cartographic propaganda: the enemy as an octopus, a […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Last June, during Change Week at Dangerously Irrelevant, I blogged about Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory. In that post I mentioned that one of […]
“You put super in front of eruption and I don’t imagine it makes it better.” – FEMA Sec. Wendy Reiss in Supervolcano. This week in my Freshman Volcanoes class here […]
I’m getting excited for NECC 2009. Just a few more weeks and I’ll be griping about the hot, muggy weather in my hometown of Washington, D.C. I can’t wait! Those […]
Well, not everyone can live at C Street… Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are […]
This semester I am teaching an interdisciplinary course on “Science, the Environment, and the Media.” The 25 combined undergraduate and graduate students in the course have split into project teams […]
Over the years, dozens of portraits have claimed to be the true visage of the bard–including a new contender, the Cobbe portrait. But can we ever know which one is real?
Only the lonely (dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah)Know the way I feel tonight (ooh-yay-yay-yay-yeah)Only the lonely (dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah)Know this feelin ain’t right (dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah) [Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely ] Blogging can be a strange […]