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Andrew DeWitt

Descartes, René (1596-1650) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biog... - 0 views

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  • Descartes believed that God created the universe as a perfect clockwork mechanism of vortical motion that functioned deterministically thereafter without intervention.
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      Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10
       
      You should read "The Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's The Republic.  http://youtu.be/69F7GhASOdM
Mike Lemon

States claiming the most Presidents - The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies - ... - 0 views

www.gvsu.edu/...index.cfm

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  • Mike Lemon on 11 Oct 10
     
    After reading today's pieces on frontier ideology and what not, I thought it would be interesting to see where Presidents come from.
margaret_weddle

Evolution vs. Creationism Home Page - 0 views

www.phy.syr.edu/...origins.html

evolution vs creationism Syracuse University digiciv

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  • margaret_weddle on 16 Oct 10
     
    A former course page from Syracuse Univ - lots of links to all sorts of stuff!
Jeffrey Chen

Evolution and Theology of Cooperation - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    An interesting spin of evolution through cooperation. Articles from various prestigious universities
David Potter

Michael Feldstein - Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education - 0 views

cnx.org/latest

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.
Gideon Burton

What Are Journalists For? - Rosen, Jay - Yale University Press - 0 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Rosen discusses civic journalism in the era of participatory culture.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - The business of innovation: Steven Johnson - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11706476

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  • The lone genius, beavering away in the seclusion of his lab is how most of us imagine the great moments of innovation have come into being. But is this really the whole story?
  • "[Good ideas] come from crowds, they come from networks. You know we have this clichéd idea of the lone genius having the eureka moment.
  • "And so much of that is because it's wonderfully set up for other people to build on top of other people's ideas. In many cases without asking for permission.
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  • "One of the lessons I've learned is that so many of these great innovators, Darwin is a great example of this, one shared characteristic they all seem to have is a lot of hobbies."
  • So what should companies be doing to foster innovation in their workforces?
  • "I think there's this abiding belief that markets drive innovation, corporations drive innovation, entrepreneurs driven by financial reward drive innovation, and while that's certainly true in many cases there's also this very rich long history of important world-changing ideas coming out of the more or less intellectual commons of the universities.
  • "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent."
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How the progress of technology and the economy are affected by creativity. Also the importance of isolation vs collaboration
Gideon Burton

Do Podcasts Help Students Learn? - 3 views

www.convergemag.com/...rge-Washington-University.html

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  • anonymous on 10 Nov 10
     
    Does BYU have an iTunes U contract? What teachers use podcasts in there classes?
David Potter

Blog post on "The Medium is the Message" - 0 views

mm-digitalprocesses.blogspot.com/...ium-is-message-or-massage.html

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  • David Potter on 19 Nov 10
     
    A student's from Lawerence University blogpost on the Medium is the Message
anonymous

Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The ... - Google Books - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 21 Nov 10
     
    this is a book that discusses racism
Gideon Burton

A University of Virginia student has a bright idea: 'Flash seminars' - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011022002666.html

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  • Gideon Burton on 21 Feb 11
     
    I love this idea of innovation on campus. Students taking charge of their education and taking advantage of their educational environment.
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