Posts from — June 2007

Role Playing Games – Free Multiplayer Online Games:
Role Playing Games

Zatte Vrienden.be | Docent entertaint leerlingen:

this is hilarious…. teaching reviews are like this.

Sim in a box:

Richard Dawkins on Dinosaurs & Creationism | The Skeleton Project:
Richard Dawkins on Dinosaurs & Creationism

The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources:
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources

Scientific American: Wronger Than Wrong:
Simply wrong. When people thought that science was unbiased and unbound by culture, they were simply wrong. On the other hand, when people thought that science was completely socially constructed, they were simply wrong. But if you believe that thinking science is unbiased is just as wrong as thinking that science is socially constructed, then your view is not even wronger than wrong.

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mr. shermer only gets to this point by fundamentally misunderstanding and mischaracterizing the strong programme of social construction. if he were to actually think about why one would want to treat theories and ’scientific theories’ as equal, even if they were not, he’d come to realize that the argument isn’t about the merit of the theories as much as it is about the development of theories. social construction, the strongest versions, is as such not wronger than wrong, it just is addressing how we come to know something is wrong.

How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail:
Even if he wanted to play outdoors, none of his friends strays from their home or garden unsupervised.

The contrast between Edward and George’s childhoods is highlighted in a report which warns that the mental health of 21st-century children is at risk because they are missing out on the exposure to the natural world enjoyed by past generations.

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this is truly sad… children need to roam, to explore, to become part of their world, a very large and interesting world.

This is the herd I want to join:
This is the herd I want to join
(Thanks to David Armistead for the pointer!)
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good one Jon, this is a good copy of the lion-crocodile–buffalo skirmish.

Eight tips for better academic writing:
Read it outloud backwards. I heard about this in the chronicle forums (sorry, I can’t find the link). It really works, even though it may be boring after a while. It’s the closest that an author can be to reading with the reader mindset. If you are too busy or feel ashamed reading stuff outloud, you can use a program to convert text to voice. The impersonal voice may actually help. Then, you can play the resulting audio file at a speed faster than normal. You can also use the player to move back and forth between problematic sections. This way, you can annotate where you need to do edits. If you want a free program that converts text to voice and works well, try Dspeech. It even lets you output an ogg file, my preferred music format. You’ll need a decent SAPI5 voice (you usually need to pay for those).
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i try to do this… the other tips are good too.

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this is cool, cheap, and worth trying.