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Holly Barlaam

Malaria Lifecycle Part 1: Human Host | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - 50 views

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    EXCELLENT video on malaria lifecycle showing how the parasite infects a human host
donnatmachado

Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100x) image - Nikon's 25 Top Microscopic Photos of ... - 60 views

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    As a convergence of art and science in the natural world, few things can summon a sense of wonderment like Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition.
Deborah van Doren

8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching | Emerging Education Techn... - 10 views

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    Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education Let's use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 38 views

  • So a lot of public education was, in fact, concerned with trying to teach independent people to become workers in an industrial system.
  • we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.
  • One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
       
      My landlord in Edinburgh, Peter Sinclair, used to say that students do not protest these days because they all have loans to pay.
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  • "the failures of the institutions responsible for indoctrinating the young."
  • It's not just you learned how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things. And that can be done from kindergarten on
  • There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped
  • First of all, the existence of the advertising industry is a sign of the unwillingness to let markets function. If you had markets, you wouldn't have advertising. Like, if somebody has something to sell, they say what it is and you buy it if you want. But when you have oligopolies, they want to stop price wars
  • there's no real economic reason for high-priced higher education and skyrocketing student debt
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself
Kathleen Howard DaQuanno

Zika virus, explained in 6 charts and maps - Vox - 50 views

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    Until recently, health officials thought Zika was pretty harmless. Now they think it causes birth defects in newborns.
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