About this talk: Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures [...]
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Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring
Patrick McKenzie: At present, in terms of radiation risk, the tsunami appears to be a wash: on the one hand there’s a near nuclear meltdown, on the other hand the tsunami disrupted something really dangerous: international flights. (One does not ordinarily associate flying commercial airlines with elevated radiation risks. Then again, one doesn’t normally associate [...]
Twitter to 3rd party client developers: Bugger off
Ryan Sarver: Twitter will provide the primary mainstream consumer client experience on phones, computers, and other devices by which millions of people access Twitter content (tweets, trends, profiles, etc.), and send tweets. If there are too many ways to use Twitter that are inconsistent with one another, we risk diffusing the user experience. [...] As [...]
Install iMovie on the original iPad without jailbreaking
Samuel Gibbs at Download Squad: Apple have just released an update to the iOS version of iMovie to support the iPad 2, but what about the original iPad? Well, currently you can’t install iMovie on an original iPad using iTunes directly, but iMovie will run on your previous generation device as long as it’s running [...]
Scary DNS Prefetching Implications
Radek Burkat: When I first heard of DNS prefetching I thought it was a great idea and assumed it was an optimization that had absolutely no negative issues. I did not fully understand the mechanics and impact that it may cause on an organization. If 350 million queries cost $1600/month, then saving a few billion [...]
The Very Difficult Problem of Notifications — The Brooks Review
Ben Brooks: I think that everyone can agree though that all notifications systems fall short of being great (even WebOS). Every single mock-up of a different notification system that I have seen solves only a subset of the problems — they certainly are better than what we currently have on iOS, but these “solutions” are [...]
Explaining the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
It’s fun to look at coincidences and make them seem more meaningful than they are, but it’s also a dangerous game. Also, how can you not love a site called You Are Not So Smart? From The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy « You Are Not So Smart: Wow. Hister certainly sounds like Hitler, and that second [...]
Is sleep more Important than food?
I know from personal experience that I perform far better when I’m not in a sleep deficit. Yet, somehow I manage to get myself badly entrenched in one on a regular basis. You can’t recover from a sleep deficit with one good long night of sleep, either. It takes a number of consistent nights of [...]
The world’s first tuition-free online university
What a concept! Wish there wasn’t a typo on their front page, though. From University of the People – The world’s first tuition-free online university: University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free online university dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The University embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet [...]
Irina Werning’s BACK TO THE FUTURE photos
Irina Werning has taken a bunch of old photos (20 or more years old) and recreated them with the same subjects. The effect is astounding: From BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning – Photographer: via Daring Fireball