Items to Share: 2 July

Apologies for the delay--I've actually had other things to do.

Education Focus

• Raiders of the lost archives (THE) On the almost forgotten joys of searching the stacks 

• Confusion Helps Us Learn (Scientific American Podcast) Another vote for liminal spaces 

• Do Khan Academy Videos Promote “Meaningful Learning”? (Open Culture)

• Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?

Other Business

• That would be an ecumenical matter (The Dabbler) On discussing wine, when you know nothing about it.

• Apes With Apps - IEEE Spectrum Bonobos using iPads to communicate

• TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): 1,143,839,622,748,050,000,000,000,000 sonnets 

• Blithering idiocy on the subjunctive (Language Log)

• Language as a Window into Human Nature (RSA Animate)

• National Geographic Traveler Magazine: 2012 Photo Contest  Self-explanatory 

• The man who made his own toaster (Boing Boing)

• Dan Ariely explains why we cheat and steal, and how we're generally wrong about this (Boing Boing)

• The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I) (Empirical Zeal)

• Tunes without composers: music naturally evolves on DarwinTunes (Not Exactly Rocket Science)

• James Dyson on invention and failure