Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Video – 21st century education in New Brunswick, Canada

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A new video from New Brunswick, in the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) style. Well worth a watch!

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Circular astronomical image showing constellations and celestial objects labeled against a dark sky, reminiscent of a NASA PUNCH video sun corona visualization, with a timestamp of 2025-06-03 01:52 at the bottom left.

Video: NASA’s PUNCH mission sees the Sun’s corona in action

Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.

A person is being recorded on video by a camera mounted on a tripod, with the display highlighting visual literacy as the subject appears in focus and the background is artfully blurred.

Business

6 ways for leaders to hone their “visual literacy”

Leaders may not realize it — they’re not just being watched, they’re being interpreted, filtered, and judged, frame by frame.

A silhouette of a person stands facing a wireframe digital figure on a purple patterned background.

The Future

What happens the day after humanity creates AGI?

“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings,” writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.

A man in glasses and a suit jacket, resembling John Green, stands in front of a light background with a purple rectangle and abstract black lines.

Books

‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ author John Green on writing, anxiety, and illness

John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.

A large circular particle accelerator laboratory with various machines, cables, and equipment; two people are working near the center on experiments related to the muon g-2 anomaly.

Starts With A Bang

Anomaly no more! “Muon g-2” puzzle resolved at last

When theory and experiment disagree, it could mean new physics. This time, they solved the muon g-2 puzzle, and saved the Standard Model.

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