Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

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Five online resources worth checking out…

TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live.

The Des Moines Register profiled an interesting charter school in Sigourney, Iowa. I’m very lucky to have the innovative superintendent as one of my doctoral students!

Do you know the 10 Golden Rules of Social Media?

Philip Greenspun has some thoughts about how the Web and the weblog have changed writing.

Tom Vander Ark says that “public education is [General Motors] in the 1980s — it’s dying and doesn’t know it.“

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Amidst the chaos of natural disasters, a man pulls a child in a small boat through a flooded street lined with houses.

The Present

Is the number of natural disasters increasing?

A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.

A person is giving a presentation at a podium with a large abstract, colorful light pattern displayed on a screen behind them.

Starts With A Bang

Inflation and dark matter are not like string theory

Inflation, dark matter, and string theory are all proposed extensions to the prior consensus picture. But what does the evidence say?

Life

Moving trees north to save the forests

As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.

A model of the Colossus depicting the grandeur of ancient Rome.

The Past

This virtual 3D model lets you wander the streets of ancient Rome

Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.

Two men engaging in a brain-teasing game at a table.

Neuropsych

Why your brain hates other people

And how to make it think differently.

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