This is hardly surprising news. Apple is extending it’s popular iPod brand into the college classroom. According to May Wong, AP technology writer. Apple has been working with six pilot schools for more than a year to help them establish systems whereby students can dowload […]
This year The Edge asked 119 notable scientists a single question: What is your most dangerous idea? There are some big names here: Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, and Richard Dawkins among them. According to reporters who have already read through most of the entries, the […]
This is rather alarming. The New York Times reports that "the average American college graduate’s literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade." According to the story, "when the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation’s college graduates scored at […]
This is pretty cool. A group of performance artists in Berlin have used a Mac Mini to create some really unique public art. They put the small computer, along with a projector and a large battery supply into a suitcase and suction-cupped it to the […]
I think this is a good story. A bookstore in Menlo Park that was forced to close in August will soon reopen, thanks to the efforts of a community of readers who hated to see it go. "The store’s closure prompted an outpouring of support […]
Call it my summer holiday. Many of my regular readers (family and friends) have noticed I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. I’ve been out to the U.S. Open in New York City, a trip Sarah and I have been wanted to take for […]
USA Today has an interesting story about how schools might actually destroy students’ love or reading. Patrick Welsh, an English teacher in Virginia, reports that national reading tests haven’t improved since 1999. "The Pew Research Center’s Internet Project reported that for today’s teenagers, "the Internet […]
I just read that George Lucas recently opened new headquarters for his film production company. The new campus is located near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, near where the Presidio used to be. Here is a photo of a new fountain at the […]
I recently came across a song I used to listen to in college. It’s by the Minneapolis band, The Replacements. It’s now stuck in my head. This wonderful ballad can be understood in many different ways. I’ll leave it there. One of my favorite lines […]
If you are a fan of the film Field of Dreams (or the original story Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella) then you are going to love this story. "Moonlight" Graham is a real character; his story is true. He only made one appearance in the […]