January 2008
9 posts
To Learn About: Prediction Markets
That is all. 
Jan 28th
Cloneburger - at a supermarket near you
Have you heard? The FDA recently approved meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine, goats, and their offspring as safe for food. And what’s more, the FDA isn’t requiring that cloned products be labeled differently.  — dihard  Color me naive, what’s the issue here? Why the implicit prejudice against cloned meat? I’m sure it tastes fine, and still suffers from all the same...
Jan 26th
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"Math isn't about the numbers" →
It’s true — math isn’t about the numbers.  And, what’s more, a huge cornerstone of my approach to teaching math is based on the belief that far more students would appreciate math, instead of shying quickly away from it, if they could see that.  How nice to have a student’s own words verify my idealism.
Jan 26th
WatchWatch
Sir Ken Robinson on Education and Creativity: “It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp”
Jan 14th
1.618
(tooChill) so now, if you want to do fun stuff with irc, it's easy as pi
(nik) phi?
(tooChill) easy as that too
(nik) haha
(nik) SO EASY ITS NATURALLY OCCURING
Jan 6th
Get Ready for Politics to Matter Again: Democratic... →
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5  Watch. Care. Vote in the primaries! 
Jan 6th
Audacity.
Obama won the first primary (in Iowa). Here’s to him winning the rest. If I hear one more person talking about Obama’s “electability” I’m going to fucking crack. We finally have someone who, instead of treating the public like idiots, is willing to take the risk of articulating a fresh, sophisticated vision of what democracy can be. He puts his career at stake:...
Jan 5th
The Woods
I just spent 5 hours in the woods.  I was shown around the gorgeous woods of my school’s campus by the three seniors who will help me lead an “Immersion Week” course in wilderness survival and awareness.  We walked along a frozen stream and saw deer, dog and raccoon tracks (including a gorgeous string of delicate sand grain footprints tracked across the ice); scoped out...
Jan 3rd
West Wing
Holy shit the West Wing is awesome.  I just started the first season.  That is all.
Jan 2nd