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The Employable Web Designer

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:17:30 GMT

Andy Rutledge’s tips on being a web designer with a job.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/the-employable-web-designer.php

Teaching artificial intelligences through correlations instead of models

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:21:46 GMT

“We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.” More on the topic at Wired.

Link: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

Neuroanatomy of science journalism

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:55:00 GMT

Link: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005472.html

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:00:39 GMT

From the TED talks.

Link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202/?src=rss

Philip Glass's Sesame Street animations

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:21:57 GMT

I remember seeing these on Sesame Street as a kid. I hated them and was mesmerized by them. They’re pure geometry, mixed with color theory wrapped up and set to an exceedingly eerie score — particularly for a children’s program.

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:42:42 GMT

I think I suffered some of the same problems as the kids in this article back in school. It’s an interesting take on kids who go through “gifted and talented” programs.

Link: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true

PlanetQuest: Exoplanet Exploration

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:29:27 GMT

Keep track of the discovery of new planets.

Link: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/

Rise of the Video Game

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:02:51 GMT

The Discovery Channel has put together a five part series. Looks interesting.

Link: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/video-game/about/about.html

The Case Against Adolescence

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:07:35 GMT

Do we no longer have childhoods? Or do they extend into our thirties?

Link: http://www.kottke.org/07/09/the-case-against-adolescence

Secret to overcoming shyness revealed

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:47:09 GMT

Interesting read, though it’s essentially the same advice I give my cat — “relax, nobody’s going to eat you.”

Link: http://www.livescience.com/health/070808_roots_shyness.html

Mr. Wizard passes away

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:43:18 GMT

I loved his shows as a kid and always used his experiments as examples when I was teaching.

Link: http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/

Leave no gifted child behind

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:21 GMT

As the one-time beneficiary of a so-called “gifted” education, it worries me to see all of the emphasis in public education on improving standardized test scores — there’s got to be a way to serve both over- and underachieving students

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600553.html

Madness About a Method

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:08 GMT

NYT article on America’s poorly timed feud with science

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11wwln_lead.html?ei=5090&en=099e2f801f399d5f&ex=1291957200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

TV news in a postmodern world

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:33 GMT

Exploring change as the status quo from this point forward in journalism

Link: http://donatacom.com/papers/pomo44.htm