January 2011
14 posts
Writing Down Worries Helps Relieve Test Anxiety →
A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25... →
Aimed primarily at science writers:
soupsoup:
via Tim Radford at Guardian
I gave it the not-very-serious subtitle of “manifesto for the simple scribe” and at around the same time, I realised that when stories that I had tried to write turned out wrong, it was because I’d broken one of my own rules. So I decided I might have written something quite useful, after all.
1. When you sit down...
College is one of America's worst investments →
theweekmagazine:
At least that’s what a new study suggests. The study found that nearly half of students make “no significant gains in learning” in their first two years on campus, and that they spend 50 percent less time studying than their 1970s and 1980s counterparts.
This is “depressing,” but hardly “shocking,” says Matt Kiebus in Death + Taxes. Anyone who has spent time on a college...
Now Free: Microsoft's 2D/3D Mathematics 4.0... →
The First Annual Google Science Fair, for Kidz! →
The New Republic: Which Languages Should Liberal... →
Software Discounts You Can Get With An .EDU Email... →
Campus Grotto: Ranking the Best Online Textbook... →
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
– John Dewey
Statistics Made Sexy →