Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

BlogBall08 – May Update

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For those of you who are interested, here are the current standings for BlogBall08, our edubloggers’ fantasy baseball league…

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High Culture

Ken Burns on what we get wrong about Leonardo da Vinci

Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.

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Starts With A Bang

10 thoughtful insights about the great cosmic unknowns

An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.

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The Present

Can ranked-choice voting heal our poisoned politics?

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

A painting of a group of people standing in front of a church.

Starts With A Bang

Relativity: the oldest physics principle that’s still correct

The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.

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Business

Moneyball on steroids: Can AI grant us 20/20 foresight?

Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.

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