- Do We Need the Next Generation Science Standards?: OK, the question presupposes "No", of course. It's US-centric, so the point of the link is not the detail--it is the downright incomprehensibility of the whole thing, and losing sight of the wood for the trees.
- Very Open Universities (Ben Goldacre) Ben muses on the possible implications of open access courses from Stanford, MIT etc. The comments are sensible, too.
- John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal (Video on TED.com): Fascinating; and a wonderful discussion starter. (Many thanks to Laura Gibson for drawing this to my attention.)
- Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor Prezi continues to evolve and become more flexible, but I confess I haven't found it as useful as I expected. Its vertiginous zooms require great restraint, and are often more distracting than illuminating (same goes for the dancers above), and there are ways of getting the same effects (for teaching purposes, at least) with more conventional means.
- xkcd: Every Major's Terrible You really need to be familiar with the Major-General's song from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, and of course even better--Tom Lehrer's setting of the Elements, as performed by a 3-year-old...
- Our Gift for Good Stories Blinds Us to the Truth (Bloomberg) Another one of those promising articles which then runs into the sand--and which seem to be much more common in the business press--but it does have some interesting links.
- Cardinal Brady Should Resign (Alex Massie in The Spectator): I don't usually link to topical posts, but this one revisits the theme of child sexual abuse--in the case by clergy in Ireland, going back to the '70s--which I commented on here.
- The Flight From Conversation (NYTimes.com) By Sherry Turkle--taster for her "Alone Together" (Thanks to Farnam Street for the pointer).
- The Trouble with Profiling : A guest post by Bruce Schneier : Sam Harris: From the maths to the politics. Moral--just give up on the "security theatre".
- Saturday 8 May 1669 (Pepys' Diary): Why mention this now? Because this "real-time" replay of the world's most famous diary--with scholarly annotations--concludes at the end of this month, and although the archive will continue, there's something about the quotidien revelations which relies on their sequential publication, especially because much of Pepys' life was as boring as ours! I hope there will be a replay.
- Jacques Tati Film Festival: Four Rare Performances, 1935-1967 (Open Culture): It's amazing how small Tati's oeuvre is; just five substantial films in about thirty years--so even small additions are valuable.
- Dan Pink's travel tips (Boing Boing) A little obsessional, perhaps, but some are useful.
- The Illusion of Choice - Chart Porn ...but then again...
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