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Friday, March 9, 2012

How to Get an A on the Final

Assure your students if they do this simple coordinated robot army to play this sweet little song, they'll get an A.

My students laughed when they there were only 303 views of this video. Now there are 1.5 million and counting.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Future trash

How trash may soon be disposed of in NYC

Explanations explained

Edge.com asks "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?"

Some of the following are only a few of the major-league hitters who reply: Rudy Rucker, Cliff Pickover, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Lawrence M. Krauss, Leonard Susskind, Douglas Rushkoff, Freeman Dyson, Gregory Benford, Brian Eno, Doug Coupland, John McWhorter, V.S. Ramachandran

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's spreads, cell to cell, via proteins--similar to prions in the famous "mad cow disease." Scientists (or the article writers) are hopeful that the disease will be cured for these studies.

Climate Class

Free Climate Class (not for credit)