Education focus
- A little bit more conversation: the limits of online education : one of an Australian series on online education--this time focusing on its inability to contribute to the development of "soft skills"
- OpenLearning launches into competitive MOOCs market : more from MOOC-land
Other Business
- Self Control Isn't Its Own Reward - Andrew Sullivan : interesting recent work building on the marshmallow/deferred gratification experiments, varying the security and trustworthiness conditions.
- Dan Ariely: The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: RSA Animate Version: another great RSA presentation--I just feel it loses its way a bit in the last quarter.
- The Challenges of Translating Humor - NYTimes.com:: Enjoy--but it's also a great taster for David Bellos Is that a fish in your ear? (Penguin, 2012)
- Cave paintings and the human brain: how neuroscience helps explain abstract prehistoric art: Ingenious, but a step too far?
- Brains Plus Brawn (Edge): Daniel Lieberman on human evolution
- James Wood: The Book of Common Prayer : The New Yorker: beautiful piece on the language.
- This Land - Losing Sleep but Not Hope at a Diner in Elyria, Ohio - NYTimes.com: I'm addicted to Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network, I confess, but this is the other end of the scale. A superb portrait of a struggling but essential diner in a recession-hit small town in the mid-West. Read in conjunction with Dr. Don, The life of a small-town druggist. by Peter Hessler in the New Yorker, September 26, 2011
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