Items to Share: 4 November

Education Focus

• Given A Choice… (John Merrow)  Beyond testing. 

• The best 82-minute movie on mastery I’ve ever seen | Daniel Pink On immersion and craft/trade skills 

• PHD Comics: How many Ph.D.s does it take?...to get the presentation working? 

• The Uses of Difficulty (More Intelligent Life) the harder the learning, the more it sticks? Up to a point. 

Other Business

• World's fastest number game wows spectators and scientists (Alex Bellos) Calculation faster than we can register 

• The American Scholar: Much Ado About Acting (Jessica Love) just how do actors learn their lines? 

• Alistair Cooke's Letter From America  ...now available on-line 

• Hurricane Sandy: After Landfall   Photo gallery 

• Watch James Burke’s TV Series Connections, and Discover the Unexpected History of Innovation... a truly original series, now available for people too young for it first time around.