Category — General

Lecture versus Discussion. In the comments to “We could hire God this year,” David Salmanson asserts that lecturing is not teaching: For those of you taping a lecture as an example of your teaching, don't bother. Lecturing is reading in a less interactive… [Invisible Adjunct]

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Lectures aren't teaching…. I agree. They do foster a certain kind of learning and certain kinds of learners though. They are great ways of demonstrating knowledge and its relationships in ways that allow people to grasp and understand it, but that the student learns it from listening is no different from the student learning it from reading a book. so if reading a book is teaching, then so are lectures, but i don't see either as actively 'teaching' they are just active 'learning' .

remember the the simpsons episode with the 3 eyed fish? eh eh, and the frogs? well welcome to our world.

theoretically they should know that this could be highly problembatic. to make a virtual earth on which to model virtual conflict will over time add so many levels of uncertainty that they should as well be worrying about virtual mars.

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Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?

Holy Prime Directive, you're Robocop!

Well, you're neither colossal, nor technically a robot, but your arthritic lurching and dubious morals have found their way into the hearts of futuristic rebels and children everywhere. You walk through fire, catch bullets from the air, and you never, ever smile. Combine this with an abstract, almost random concept of duty and honour, and you have a police officer one cannot fail to adore.

Thank you, Robocop.

the ny post has a nice story about martha…. martha the liar. martha the fraud. martha the false idol of millions….. i've always been anti-martha, she epitomizes and ideology of submission to norms that is entirely unreal bordering on surreal.

30 million/year and then i think L.A. should call itself Cuervo Nation…

this is a nice little expose about the tricks used to crank up the profit in the computer industry. more or less they sell the same equipment and make little bits of hardware that destandardizes them, making it hard to use the same cartridge across printers, etc.

“If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning,” Buffett said in Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual report.

“Tax breaks for corporations (and their investors, particularly large ones) were a major part of the administration's 2002 and 2003 initiatives,” Buffett said.

amazing isn't it…. this is the 2000'th post. that's a bit much i think.

“Jury Put Ms. Martha In Her Place!”. One juror called it a “victory for the little guys.” And by “little guys,” I'll assume he means those loathe… [Fanatical Apathy]

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with martha going to jail, bush won't be re-elected….