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Education Reform
Another excellent RSA animated talk. Cue Carly Simon’s Nobody Does It Better, because nobody does. And it makes me feel sad for the rest. via Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing.
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Tagged Beautiful, Boing Boing, Carly Simon, Culture, Education, How Stuff Works, Ken Robinson, Mark Frauenfelder, Opinion, Philosophy, RSA Animate, Smarts
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Greatest Tom Jones Joke of All Time
John Mulaney describes the best meal he’s ever had: So catchy: [via Fuck Yeah Standup Comedy]
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Tagged Beautiful, Chicago, Fuck Yeah Standup, Funny, Humor, It's Not Unusual, John Mulaney, Jokes, Music, Pussycat, Smarts, Tom Jones, What's New Pussycat
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Robot Apocalypse Comic
[via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
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Tagged Future, How Stuff Works, Robot Apocalypse, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Science, Smarts, Technology
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Sundog – Making Beats with Charles
Hell yeah, Charles. [Animated GIF via Gconnect]
Thars Gold in them Watches
Bill Hammack is one of my favorite explainers. Keep it up, Engineer Guy. [via Make Magazine]
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Tagged Bill Hammack, Design, Education, Electricity, Engineer Guy, Gold, How Stuff Works, Make Magazine, Piezoelectric Effect, Quartz, Resonance, Resonant Motion, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time, Watches
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Busy Day at the Airport
[via Fogonazos]
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Tagged Airplanes, Airports, Beautiful, Design, Fogonazos, General Electric, Gold Panda, How Stuff Works, Magic, Music, Scary, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time Lapse
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Jim Fallows on Throwing Like a Girl
[image via Andrew Side A] Two things: 1. Natural movements aren’t always innate. 2. We need to stop with the ‘throwing like a girl’ talk. Jim Fallows: A surprising number of people think that there is a structural difference between … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Angela Vasquez-Giroux, Arizona State Softball, Baseball, Beautiful, Culture, Education, How Stuff Works, Linda Wells, Opinion, Science, Skills, Smarts, Softball, Sports, Tennis, The Atlantic, The Idler, the sandlot, Thoughts, Vic Braden
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Douglas Coupland’s Predictions for the Coming Decade
I read this a couple of months ago, but only now, in these early days of the new decade*, does it feel right to stamp out the ubiquitous optimism with some good doubt. Douglas Coupland, a Canadian curmudgeon, lists 45 predictions for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Culture, Curmudgeons, Douglas Coupland, Education, Food, Future, Futurism, Music, Opinion, Philosophy, Photobucket, Predictions, Scary, Singularity, Smarts, The Browser, The Globe and Mail, Thoughts, Wikipedia
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Christopher Hitchens on How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea
[image via The Thinking Blue] I envy Hitchens’ writing style. He takes confident chances with the language and they work. Now that “the holidays”—at their new-style Ramadan length, with the addition of Hanukkah plus the spur and lash of commerce—are … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Beautiful, Christopher Hitchens, Curmudgeons, Education, Food, History, How Stuff Works, John Lennon, Opinion, Paragraphs, Philosophy, Sentences, Skills, Slate, Smarts, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, Tea, The Browser, Thoughts, Words, Yoko Ono
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Aaron Merritt’s Year In Review
I’ve mentioned Aaron in this space before, but that was a furtively self-serving moment wasn’t it? Today’s post isn’t about me. As Aaron explains, it’s… For me specifically. But then, teachers in general. But- also- everbody. This post isn’t like … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Aaron Merritt, Advice, Alec Baldwin, Amalgamation, Art, Batman, Beautiful, Bill Watterson, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Brown, Craft, Cuba, Cultivation, Culture, Curation, Design, Donnie Darko, Edward Norton, Ferris Bueller, Henri Matisse, John Hughes, Matthew Broderick, Maurice Sendak, Panopticon, Peanuts, Pikachu, Powerpoint, Prison, Prison Presidio Modelo, Roald Dahl, Rubik's Cube, Scott Pilgrim, Shel Silverstein, Skills, Smarts, Spider-Man, Superman, Technology, The Giving Tree, The Goddamn Batman, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, What is this I don't even, Where the Wild Things Are, Wile E. Coyote, Willy Wonka
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